REST gateway: Data format

The REST gateway uses the Content-Type header in your HTTP requests to determine the data format of the data stored into the data grid.

Data format

The REST gateway uses the Content-type header in your HTTP requests to determine the data format of the data that is stored in the data grid. If you insert content of type application/xml, when your application does a GET operation for the same cache key, the response body and Content-type are in the equivalent format type. In this example, the response body would be in application/xml format. You can store data of multiple content types in the same data grid. Examples of some valid content types follow:
Table 1. Content types for the content-type header in HTTP requests
Content type Use
application/xml XML
application/json JavaScript data
application/octet-stream Serialized objects, general-purpose data