How to construct message header for a HEAD response with restlet - restlet

Question

I'm trying to create a HEAD response with restlet. Unfortunatly there is ony a #Get annotation, but the restlet author states, that you have to use a #Get, and then compare the Method.
As the documentation/specification says, there can be no body, but only a message header.
Now how to create a message header that will be send to the server, because the following code does not work, it sends this headers: HTTP/1.1 204 No Content, Content-Length: 0
protected void addResponseHeader(String name, String value) {
Form responseHeaders = (Form)getResponse().getAttributes().get(HeaderConstants.ATTRIBUTE_HEADERS);
if (responseHeaders == null) {
responseHeaders = new Form();
getResponse().getAttributes().put(HeaderConstants.ATTRIBUTE_HEADERS, responseHeaders);
}
responseHeaders.add(new Parameter(name, value));
}
The concrete code on server-side:
#Get
public void execute() {
if (Method.HEAD.equals(getMethod())) {
//optional: getResponse().getEntity().setMediaType(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN);
getResponse().setStatus(Status.SUCCESS_OK, "hello head");
addResponseHeader("X-my-header", "value");
}
}
The client code:
#Test
public void head() {
Request request = new Request(Method.HEAD, url);
Response response = query(request);
assertEquals(Status.SUCCESS_OK, response.getStatus());
Form form = (Form)response.getAttributes().get(HeaderConstants.ATTRIBUTE_HEADERS);
assertEquals("value", form.getFirstValue("X-my-value")); // does fail because it is null
}

Answer 1

You just need to implement #Get for real : should work with a HTTP GET fine first. Then if you issue a HTTP HEAD, it will be handled automatically by the framework, nothing else to do on your side. Just focus on getting GET implemented correctly.