[GeoJSON] Content-type

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Hi,

I can see that my WMS server advertises one image output option with MIME
type image/png; mode=8bit and my WFS server delivers either text/xml;
subtype="gml/3.1.1" or text/xml; subtype="gml/2.1.2"

Could it be application/json; type=geojson or something like that?

-Jukka Rahkonen-



Erik Wilde wrote:
> hello nelson.
>
> On 2013-11-03, 09:25 , Nelson Minar wrote:
>> It's too bad that MIME types only describe the encoding and not the
actual contents, but that's the way the standards work.
>
> that's not actually the case. that's the way some communities use them
(semweb is one popular example), while others are using them
> differently. for RESTful web services, for example, many people are
minting meaningful media types, instead of using very generic
identifiers.
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6839 is an attempt to make this a bit more
structured, and then you could use application/geojson+json, making it
both clear that it's GeoJSON, and JSON. but this would of course break
compatibility with the current practice of using application/json, so
maybe it's not such a great idea in the end for things that already are
deployed.
>
>> The main purpose
>> of that type is to signal the user agent how to decode the thing (ie:
it's JSON to turn into Javascript objects, not XML or HTML to turn into
DOM or an image or whatever.) It's up to the application to inspect the
object contents to determine what was in the JSON blob.
>
> again, that's a result of designing things in a certain way, and maybe
not the best possible one. to me, using profiles actually seems like a
pretty good compromise: it's backwards compatible to those who use
application/json, but still exposes the fact that the format is more
than just generic JSON.
>
> cheers,
>
> dret.
>
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