[THRIFT-3250] Apache Thrift should use registered media types with HTTP

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.3
• Component/s: Wish List

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• Assignee: Randy Abernethy
• Reporter: Randy Abernethy
• Created: 20/Jul/15 22:37
• Updated: 11/Jan/19 22:28

Description

Now that we have registered media types:

• application/vnd.apache.thrift.binary
• application/vnd.apache.thrift.compact
• application/vnd.apache.thrift.json

We should use them exclusively, replacing the old x-thrift. I suggest TProtocol gain a getMediaType() method which returns the correct media type when invoked on a concrete protocol (e.g. TBinaryProtocol.getMediaType() would return "application/vnd.apache.thrift.binary".

HTTP oriented code can then invoke the getMediaType() method of the protocol to discover the correct media type to set in HTTP headers.

Thoughts?

Issue Links

• relates to: THRIFT-2756 register Media Type @ IANA