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The response body in the above example contains a list (
of partitions represented as XML data. The partitions are defined as data objects which represent
the partitions configured on the library. As mentioned earlier the data format of the message body
could have been JSON but the HTTP request header contained the following line:
Accept: text/plain, application/xml
Which indicates to the server that the responses body “Content type or Media type” needs to be
plain/text or application/xml. In this particular case the resource requested for the method GET
only supports XML (default) or JSON, so XML is returned. The response message header also
describes the content type with the following header line:
Content-Type: application/xml
The ESL G3 supports the following formats:
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text/plain
•
application/xml
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application/json
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application/octet-stream
•
application/x-tar
Other content-types may be supported in the future.
For the most part, data objects that represent a resource are returned in the message body of the
response to a particular request. These objects could represent a list of resource objects.
HTTP://library/aml/users
Or as a single object:
HTTP://library/user/admin
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