How to set content type in "get" task?

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Al Le

2016-03-16 19:05:05 UTC

Hello,

in our ant script, we use the "get" task to fetch some data from the server via HTTP GET. The server interprets the 'Content-Type' header of the request and delivers the response in the appropriate format (html/xml/json).

We'd like to have the result as XML and hence would need to set the content type header of the HTTP request.

Is this possible using the standard get task? If yes, how?

I've only found the 'useragent' attribute in the task but no means to set some other HTTP headers.

Thanks!
AL

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Scot P. Floess

2016-03-17 06:43:03 UTC

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I've kept your email in my inbox wanting to see if I could help.

Now that I'm trying - I'm surprised you can't specify the Content-Type. I
do a fair bit of REST work so I absolutely understand your desire for this
functionality. I found ant-contrib has a post task but that won't help
you.

Might be worth submitting a feature request or write something in a
scripting language (my go-to is usually Beanshell). However maybe
Javascript? Essentially put a script-def in place in your ant script.

There maybe better solutions but I noted nobody responded to date - so
thought I'd give my $0.02.

Probably pretty easy to add this via a script-def...let me know if it
doesn't make sense or you are curious...

Post by Al Le
Hello,
in our ant script, we use the "get" task to fetch some data from the server via HTTP GET. The server interprets the 'Content-Type' header of the request and delivers the response in the appropriate format (html/xml/json).
We'd like to have the result as XML and hence would need to set the content type header of the HTTP request.
Is this possible using the standard get task? If yes, how?
I've only found the 'useragent' attribute in the task but no means to set some other HTTP headers.
Thanks!
AL
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Tom Cleghorn

2016-03-17 10:48:14 UTC

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We've found the missing-link tasks to be really helpful - doesn't appear
to be under active development any more though.
https://missinglinkcode.wordpress.com/ points to a dead Google Code repo
now, but a recent comment from the developer points to
https://github.com/alex-sherwin/missing-link/

Post by Scot P. Floess
I've kept your email in my inbox wanting to see if I could help.
Now that I'm trying - I'm surprised you can't specify the
Content-Type. I do a fair bit of REST work so I absolutely understand
your desire for this functionality. I found ant-contrib has a post
task but that won't help you.
Might be worth submitting a feature request or write something in a
scripting language (my go-to is usually Beanshell). However maybe
Javascript? Essentially put a script-def in place in your ant script.
There maybe better solutions but I noted nobody responded to date - so
thought I'd give my $0.02.
Probably pretty easy to add this via a script-def...let me know if it
doesn't make sense or you are curious...

Post by Al Le
Hello,
in our ant script, we use the "get" task to fetch some data from the
server via HTTP GET. The server interprets the 'Content-Type' header
of the request and delivers the response in the appropriate format
(html/xml/json).
We'd like to have the result as XML and hence would need to set the
content type header of the HTTP request.
Is this possible using the standard get task? If yes, how?
I've only found the 'useragent' attribute in the task but no means to
set some other HTTP headers.
Thanks!
AL
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Stefan Bodewig

2016-03-17 04:58:45 UTC

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Post by Al Le
We'd like to have the result as XML and hence would need to set the
content type header of the HTTP request.
Is this possible using the standard get task? If yes, how?

No, the get task doesn't support setting the Accept-Header. The feature
would be useful, but AFAIK you are the first person asking for it.

Stefan

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Al Le

2016-03-17 05:42:31 UTC

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Post by Stefan Bodewig
No, the get task doesn't support setting the Accept-Header.
Probably pretty easy to add this via a script-def...

Thank you for the quick responses!

I'll try it with JavaScript. I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss
something. Basicly, I'll have to implement the get task in JavaScript
(use Java classes from JavaScript) and add one more header, right?

Still, I think that a possibility to specify HTTP headers (e.g. via
nested elements) would be a useful addition to the get task.

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Chris Barlock

2016-03-17 13:49:25 UTC

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Is curl an option? You can run it with the Ant exec task.

Chris

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Date: 03/17/2016 02:33 AM
Subject: Re: How to set content type in "get" task?

Post by Stefan Bodewig
No, the get task doesn't support setting the Accept-Header.
Probably pretty easy to add this via a script-def...

Al Le

2016-03-17 22:47:33 UTC

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Post by Chris Barlock
Is curl an option? You can run it with the Ant exec task.

Yes, I already considered using curl or wget. It will be simpler than
implementing the feature from scratch in JavaScript (or in some other
language).

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