The content-type header of the response is affected by the accept header of the request. This is not very obvious at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when you register a custom media type to the JsonFormatter or XmlFormatter, the content-type header will not be changed depending on the type of the response object. Rather it matches the accept header in the request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the accept header in the request is not accepted, then the services will default to application\/json or application\/xml.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Example: let’s say you have a service model called Student, a custom media type “application\/mycompany.com+json”, and a web service endpoint that returns a student by ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you just use the browser to make a request to this endpoint, the content-type header in the response will likely be set to “application\/json” or “application\/xml” depending on your preferred setting and browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However if you set the accept header in the request to “application\/mycompany.com+json”, the content-type type response header will be set to the same type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no mapping between the types and the service model from the backend side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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