[SLIDER-881] REST clients to react to text/plain & text/html responses with meaningful errors

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Slider 0.80
• Fix Version/s: Slider 2.0.0
• Component/s: Web & REST
• Sprint: Slider December #1
• Assignee: Steve Loughran
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 18/May/15 09:37
• Updated: 18/May/15 09:37

Description

When a REST call returns text/plain or text/html, Jersey triggers a "no handler for this mime type" message, which is then interpreted as a REST client problem. It's not: its at the far end or in the RM proxy.

Ideally jersey can be set up to handle these responses specially. Otherwise the error escalation could at least recognise the string (ugly) and raise an error message saying "point your browser at the far end"