Re: [Springframework-developer] proposal for jstlview

[Seth L. <se...@eh...>]

Seth Ladd wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I looked through the code for JstlView, and it does not set the 
> content-type passed to it via AbstractView.  The javadocs for 
> setContentType state that it might be ignored by subclasses.
> 
> I'd like to propose that JstlView ignores that value if its null, or if 
> not null, it should use it.  I think it makes sense that if 
> setContentType is called to a View, then the View should use it.  If 
> it's null, then go ahead and ignore it.  Is that a fair request?

Ahh... never mind, I see why it is ignored.  It seems that even if you 
set response.setContentType(), the JSP will ignore it and look for the 
content type given in the <%@ page %> declaration.

sigh

Thanks, though,
Seth