[Developers] mqlread http response header (content-type)

[Augusto Callejas]

according to the documenation:

http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e139

=====
4.2.2. mqlread Output

mqlread returns an HTTP response with a Content-Type header of
application/json (or text/plain if the callback parameter was specified).
The body of the response is a JSON-serialized envelope object that holds a
MQL result object (or objects if multiple queries were submitted). The
format of mqlread response envelopes is specified in Section 4.2.3
=====

however i did not specify a callback parameter, so how do i get mqlread to
return its response as "application/json" and not text/plain;
charset="utf-8".

thanks,
augusto.


On 9/17/08 9:36 AM, "Augusto Callejas" <acallejas at appliedminds.com> wrote:

> hi-
> 
> when i perform a mqlread query, i get back HTTP response headers that look
> like:
> 
> =====
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:51:35 GMT
> ,
> Server: Apache
> ,
> X-Metaweb-Success: 1/1
> ,
> Content-Length: 35616
> ,
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> ,
> ...
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> =====
> 
> 
> shouldn't the "Content-Type" header value be "application/json"?
> 
>  http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/
> 
> i'm having a problem with the 'charset="utf-8"' in the header.
> the java http client library that i'm using (
> http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/) reads the response (see example
> below), and decodes any unicode characters (ie. /u001a) into their actual
> character value.  however, this is before i get a chance to decode it in my
> json library.  however, the unicode characters have already been decoded at
> the http level, but not at the json level.
> 
> any thoughts?
> 
> thanks,
> augusto.
> 
> 
> query
> =====
> {"q":{"query":
> {
>   "master_property" : "/type/object/name",
>   "operation" : "delete",
>   "source" : {
>     "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f8000000006e31736"
>   },
>   "target_value" : {
>     "value" : null
>   },
>   "timestamp" : "2008-08-30T18:56:23.0000Z",
>   "type" : "/type/link",
>   "valid" : null
> }
> }}
> =====
> 
> 
> response
> =====
> {
>   "master_property" : "/type/object/name",
>   "operation" : "delete",
>   "source" : {
>     "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f8000000006e31736"
>   },
>   "target_value" : {
>     "value" : "Friesengeist 2: Regelm\u001aässige Zerstö\u001arungen"
>   },
>   "timestamp" : "2008-08-30T18:56:23.0000Z",
>   "type" : "/type/link",
>   "valid" : null
> }
> =====
> 
> 
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