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Peter_XXX's avatar
Peter_XXX
Occasional Visitor
5 years ago

is it possible to define multiple charset in the content type of a REST call in Swagger?

I'm trying to describe a call like this. 

 

The issue I run into is that the charset that is returned is the charset of the DB. 

And we have some DB that for historical reasons are not on the UTF-8 encoding yet. 

 

Is it possible to describe this in a way that both the headers Content-type: application/Json; charset=UTF-8 and Content-type: application/Json; charset= iso-8859-1 are considered valid answers?

content
content-type
Swagger Core
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    5 years ago

    Hi Peter,

    You'll need to define those different encodings as separate media types:

          requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json; charset=UTF-8:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Something'
          application/json; charset=iso-8859-1:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Something'

     

    There's an existing enhancement request to improve the syntax so that parameterized media types can be defined using a single Media Type Object:

    Parameters for Media Types

  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    5 years ago

    Hi Peter,

    You'll need to define those different encodings as separate media types:

          requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json; charset=UTF-8:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Something'
          application/json; charset=iso-8859-1:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Something'

     

    There's an existing enhancement request to improve the syntax so that parameterized media types can be defined using a single Media Type Object:

    Parameters for Media Types