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Additional REST Support when Requesting Data Formats

REST Web Services also supports other ways of specifying the representation format using the URI. The Web Services work similarly specifying the representation format in the Accept HTTP header.

Example 1:

GET /caisd-rest/chg/400001.xml HTTP/1.1

GET /caisd-rest/chg/400001.json HTTP/1.1

GET /caisd-rest/chg.feed HTTP/1.1

Example 2:

GET /caisd-rest/chg/400001?_type=xml HTTP/1.1

GET /caisd-rest/chg/400001?_type=json HTTP/1.1

GET /caisd-rest/chg?_type=atom HTTP/1.1

Consider the following information:

• If the representation format is specified on the URI and through the “Accept” header, the one in the URI takes precedence over the Accept header.
• If a representation format is not specified in any way, the representation returns in the XML format by default.
• The _type= query parameter supersedes all parameters.