Accept Header Responses

REST Service Binding allows users to set preferences for responses. Responses can be set to either BW Service Response to honour the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ service responses or Accept Header, which accepts headers set by the client or browser.

The following table shows the REST Service responses based on the Accept Header settings.

Accept Header (Client) BW Service Response Support till version TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ 6.3.1 Support from version ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™6.3.2 to vesion 6.3.5 Support from version ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.4.0 (Default behaviour) Version ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.4.0 (Enforce BW Service Response)
application or JSON JSON JSON JSON JSON JSON
application or XML JSON XML Error: 406 Error: 406 Error: 406
*/* JSON JSON JSON JSON JSON
application or XML;q=0.9 JSON JSON Error: 406 Error: 406 Error: 406
application or XML;q=0.9,*/* JSON JSON XML XML JSON
application or XML,*/* JSON JSON XML XML JSON
application or json,text/plain,*/* JSON JSON NA text/plain JSON
application or json,text/plain JSON JSON NA text/plain JSON
application/json XML text/plain Error:406 Error:406 Error:406
application/xml XML XML XML XML XML
*/* XML XML XML text/plain XML
application/xml;q=0.9 XML text/plain XML XML XML
application/xml;q=0.9,*/ * XML XML XML XML XML
application/xml,*/* XML XML XML XML XML
application/json,text/plain,*/* XML XML XML text/plain XML
application/json,text/plain XML text/plain Error:406 Error:406 Error:406