What MIME type should I use for jQuery autocomplete queries?
The jQuery Autocomplete plugin uses an odd response format. Specifically it is a list of thread-separated strings separated by a pipe, the first entry of each pair is some formatted text, the last one being a JSON object with some data.
Example:
Fuzzy Bunnies|{ id: '1234-fuzzy-bunnies', type: 'slippers' }
Loud Hawaiian Shirt|{ id: '3993-loud-hawaiian-shirt', type: 'shirt', sizes: ['S', 'M', 'L'] }
My question is, what MIME type makes sense for this? This is not accurate application/json
due to this odd pipe and the fact that the list is split onto a new line and not expressed as a Javascript array. It's also not text/plain
, since only the first part is plain text (and even that may allow markup - I'm not sure).
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You have to post it like text/plain
, because it really is. The fact that a piece of text has a specific meaning does not mean that a json
.
Otherwise, for example, you can argue that a binary that stores one text variable is a text file.
If you submit this file as json
, you may run into problems as it is not a valid file json
.
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