Modify report endpoints to only accept forms and not json data? about chanjo2 HOT 6 OPEN

The endpoints should accept json and return json, it is the standard format used for data in web API:s. Consuming the Chanjo API would be a lot easier if all of the endpoints accepted and returned valid json.

That's how I had it in the beginning. But then after integrating with scout we (me and people in Lund) realised that to be able to integrate well and to be able to modify reports on the fly from the HTML page of the report then it has to accept a form. See also:
Clinical-Genomics/scout#4539

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But of course one can have 2 endpoints, one that accepts form data and one that accepts json!

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That would be a single endpoint still. However, the response would be formatted based on the provided header.

Yeah I know, that's why I opened this issue. Currently we don't have any use to an endpoint that accepts json, so I was thinking to only accept form data. Haven't had time to work on this yet

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The endpoints should accept json and return json, it is the standard format used for data in web API:s. Consuming the Chanjo API would be a lot easier if all of the endpoints accepted and returned valid json.

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It would be nice to support both formats then! Usually the client sending the request specifies in the header which data format it wants (for example Accept: application/json or Accept: application/xml)

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That would be a single endpoint still. However, the response would be formatted based on the provided header.

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