Avoid automatically following 303 redirect (asynchronous API)

[cortez]

Hi,

I have an asynchronous REST API that closely follows the design outlined here and here. So I have three methods set out like this:

POST /v1/foo (returns "202 Accepted")

GET /v1/foo/queue/{uuid}  (returns "200 OK" whilst job is pending, then "303 See Other" on completion) 

GET  /v1/foo/{uuid} (returns "200 OK" and the JSON result)

My question is: how can I prevent an actual redirect on the queue request? Most clients have some functionality to disable automatic following of redirects. I think I probably do want to do this, since it doesn't seem to make sense for the UI listing to display the response from another method. I couldn't find any option within Swagger UI, so perhaps there is something in Swagger JS (or even shred)?

(I am also tempted to ask whether this is slightly too complex a design... although it seems to be the correct RESTful way to do this).

Thanks,

Christopher 

[tony tam]

Are you talking about catching 303 in swagger-ui or in other clients?  If in swagger-ui, it's pretty simple to support in swagger-js:

https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-js/blob/master/src/swagger.coffee#L798

You would add a handler for 303: just like the others.

[Christopher Melen]

Thanks Tony. Basically what I want to do is avoid Swagger UI following the redirect. I guess most clients have a flag or parameter which can be set to either enable or disable this (for example curl, where it has to be explicitly enabled).

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[tony tam]

Did you try the technique I referenced?

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