Interface ContentNegotiationStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMappingContentNegotiationStrategy, ContentNegotiationManager, FixedContentNegotiationStrategy, HeaderContentNegotiationStrategy, ParameterContentNegotiationStrategy

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface ContentNegotiationStrategy

A strategy for resolving the requested media types for a request.

Since:

3.2

Author:

Rossen Stoyanchev

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final List<MediaType>	MEDIA_TYPE_ALL_LIST	A singleton list with MediaType.ALL that is returned from resolveMediaTypes(NativeWebRequest) when no specific media types are requested.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
List<MediaType>	resolveMediaTypes(NativeWebRequest webRequest)	Resolve the given request to a list of media types.

Field Details

MEDIA_TYPE_ALL_LIST

static final List<MediaType> MEDIA_TYPE_ALL_LIST

A singleton list with MediaType.ALL that is returned from resolveMediaTypes(NativeWebRequest) when no specific media types are requested.

Since:

5.0.5

Method Details

resolveMediaTypes

List<MediaType> resolveMediaTypes(NativeWebRequest webRequest)
                           throws HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException

Resolve the given request to a list of media types. The returned list is ordered by specificity first and by quality parameter second.

Parameters:

webRequest - the current request

Returns:

the requested media types, or MEDIA_TYPE_ALL_LIST if none were requested.

Throws:

HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException - if the requested media types cannot be parsed