Re: How to correctly specify JSON-LD flavor in Accept and Content-Type headers?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 03:17:09PM +0100, Vagif Abilov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If a service supports multiple media types and client wants to receive
> response as JSON-LD, then AFAIK should include Accept header with a value
> of "application/ld+json".And the service should set this values in
> Content-Type header.
> 
> But how to specify that client wants JSON-LD compacted or expanded? And
> should the service specify it in the Content-Type?

Vagif,

Use the optional profile parameter in the request, such as

Accept: application/ld+json; profile="http://www.w3.org/ns/json-ld#expanded"

See [1, 2] for more info.

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[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld-syntax/#application-ld-json
[2]: http://www.w3.org/ns/json-ld