[WIP] Support for XML-Responses

[winniehell]

Please add support for XML entities.

Related to JamesMessinger/swagger-server#16

[winniehell]

Not as straight forward as I initially thought.

[
  "foo",
  "bar"
]

may as well be

<cars>
  <car>foo</car>
  <car>bar</car>
</cars>

or

<cakes>
  <cake>foo</cake>
  <cake>bar</cake>
</cakes>

Any of the following might help:

• xml
• object-to-xml
• js2xmlparser

Any other ideas, how to solve that?

[JamesMessinger]

Swagger allows you to specify how the JSON Schema should map to XML (see XML Object).

[winniehell]

@BigstickCarpet Thank you for the link! 👍
I'd like to work on this issue, but right know I'm unsure how to start... maybe I'll try to come up with a failing test for XML requests first.
What do you think of adding a Content-Type-parameter to tests/specs/mock/query-collection.spec.js?

[winniehell]

After #24 is merged, these would be the next steps in my opinion. Do you agree?

• make tests succeed on master 😀 (Fix failing test on master #25)
• support different content types in mock collection tests (Add content type as parameter to mock tests #24)
• use Accept header for Content-Type of response ([WIP] Use Accept header for Content-Type of response #27)
• add XML to consumes and produces of test file (this will make the tests fail!)
• add XML to supported mime types for objects
• distinguish content type of response
• handle special cases such as XML attributes or unnamed arrays
• happily use XML 🚀

[JamesMessinger]

Looks like a good roadmap to me. Thanks for taking the lead on this. I wish I had the free time to help you out, but it sounds like you've got a solid handle on the situation.

[winniehell]

I won't finish this because we have decided not to use swagger.