Hello,
I'm working with a REST API where the response is a valid JSON but has a Content-Type: text/plain. The response looks like this:
[{"OrderId":"46D2A6BD-8B34-4F55-B816-B90017CDBA28","OrderNumber":131,"DeviceId":"POS41232","VendorId":1,"VendorName":"Test Facility","StoreId":114}]
However, the log shows the following:
2025-01-10T15:33:16.340+01:00 2 [1|Q-Id] [HTTP|Res: 0] HTTP/1.1 200 OK, 1615 Bytes Transferred
2025-01-10T15:33:16.340+01:00 2 [1|Q-Id] [HTTP|Res: 0] Request completed in 676 ms.
2025-01-10T15:33:16.344+01:00 3 [1|Q-Id] [META|Schema: JSONValidation] https://pos.no/getsales is not a valid JSON resource.
2025-01-10T15:33:16.345+01:00 3 [1|Q-Id] [META|Schema: JSONValidation] Invalid JSON markup. Expected json, but instead found [text/plain; charset=utf-8].
To attempt to fix this, I set Accept: application/json in the request headers, but this results in a response wrapped in a string, like this:
"[{\"OrderId\":\"46D2A6BD-8B34-4F55-B816-B90017CDBA28\",\"OrderNumber\":131,\"DeviceId\":\"POS41232\",\"VendorId\":1,\"VendorName\":\"Test Facility\",\"StoreId\":114}]"
And the log now shows:
2025-01-10T15:39:24.450+01:00 2 [1|Q-Id] [HTTP|Res: 0] HTTP/1.1 200 OK, 8456 Bytes Transferred
2025-01-10T15:39:24.451+01:00 2 [1|Q-Id] [HTTP|Res: 0] Request completed in 672 ms.
2025-01-10T15:39:24.456+01:00 3 [1|Q-Id] [META|Schema: JSONValidation] https://pos.no/getsales is not a valid JSON resource.
2025-01-10T15:39:24.457+01:00 3 [1|Q-Id] [META|Schema: JSONValidation] Length cannot be less than zero.
Question
It seems like the API is either returning JSON with the wrong content type (text/plain) or wrapping the JSON in a string when I request application/json.
What is the best way to handle this?
Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
