We’re using Flask for one of our API’s and I was just wondering if anyone knew how to return a HTTP response 201? For errors such as 404 we can call: from flask import abort abort(404) But for 201 I get LookupError: no exception for 201 Do I need to create my own exception like … Read more
I read about Pragma header on Wikipedia which says: “The Pragma: no-cache header field is an HTTP/1.0 header intended for use in requests. It is a means for the browser to tell the server and any intermediate caches that it wants a fresh version of the resource, not for the server to tell the browser … Read more
For returning from a Web API 2 controller, I can return content with the response if the response is OK (status 200) like this: public IHttpActionResult Get() { string myResult = … return Ok(myResult); } If possible, I want to use the built-in result types here when possible My question is, for another type of … Read more
I’m trying to return a status code of 304 not modified for a GET method in a web api controller. The only way I succeeded was something like this: public class TryController : ApiController { public User GetUser(int userId, DateTime lastModifiedAtClient) { var user = new DataEntities().Users.First(p => p.Id == userId); if (user.LastModified <= lastModifiedAtClient) … Read more
I have created the following function for checking the connection status: private void checkConnectionStatus() { HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); try { String url = “http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8000/GaitLink/” + strSessionString + “/ConnectionStatus”; Log.d(“phobos”, “performing get ” + url); HttpGet method = new HttpGet(new URI(url)); HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(method); if (response != null) { String result = getResponse(response.getEntity()); … Read more
I have been developing with WebApi and have moved on to WebApi2 where Microsoft has introduced a new IHttpActionResult Interface that seems to recommended to be used over returning a HttpResponseMessage. I am confused on the advantages of this new Interface. It seems to mainly just provide a SLIGHTLY easier way to create a HttpResponseMessage. … Read more
So, one can attempt to fetch the following JSON object: $ curl -i -X GET http://echo.jsontest.com/key/value/anotherKey/anotherValue HTTP/1.1 200 OK Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:19:10 GMT Server: Google Frontend Cache-Control: private Alternate-Protocol: 80:quic,80:quic Transfer-Encoding: chunked { “anotherKey”: “anotherValue”, “key”: “value” } $ Is there a way to produce exactly the … Read more
