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frnhr
frnhr

Reputation: 12903

What is the proper content type for one-word boolean REST resource?

I'm building an API, and for the most part there will be JSON and HTML content there. But a few very specific endpoints only render true or false, and also accept true or false in POST. That is the entire body of the request or response.

What would be the correct content-type header for this resource?

I'm using text/plain. application/text also sounds ok, though it I haven't found it used anywhere else (is it?)

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9104

Answers (1)

kicken
kicken

Reputation: 2167

The single words true or false are valid JSON, so you may use application/json with these values.

However, it is recommended that your JSON messages be either an object or an array as some software may not work properly if this is not the case. To follow that recommendation you might instead return a value such as

{"result":true}

Upvotes: 16

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