How to set API response default to JSON (instead of XML)

[Arif]

Hi,

OTP REST API returns response in XML format(default). We can change this to JSON by sending a request header "Accept: application/json".

As I am planning to use only JSON in my app. I wonder if there is an easy way to change default behavior to JSON by changing configuration or adding/removing small piece of code etc.

Thanks for help.

Arif

[Marko Burjek]

This is commit that I think changed default API output from XML to JSON: https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner/commit/f69a2b863cd743b35e6de9f4c342e7242

It is already in latest stable version 0.12.1 so it should already work.(JSON should be preffered) If you work on 0.11 file names are little different.

If this doesn't work try removing XML format in API calls.

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[Arif]

Hi,

thank you Marko for your feedback.

I have switched to master branch (I have tried switching to opentripplanner-0.12.1 tag as well) but still default response type is XML. 

Arif

[Arif]

Sorry, it was my mistake. I was trying google chrome for get requests and I found out that chorme itself was appending request header "application/xml". I tried REST client, it (master branch) is working  as expected. Thanks.

Arif

[Laurent Gregoire]

Hi Arif,

On 04/12/14 13:24, Arif wrote:
> Sorry, it was my mistake. I was trying google chrome for get requests and I
> found out that chorme itself was appending request header "application/xml".
> I tried REST client, it (master branch) is working as expected. Thanks.

I think it's always better anyway to specify the expected format in the
client request. Otherwise you risk breaking your client in case the JSON
vs XML priority change on the server.

HTH,

--Laurent