[core] [core-client-rest] Content-Type for JSON should be application/json

[maorleger]

looks like core-client-rest uses application/json;charset=UTF-8 but core-client / autorest based mappers default to "application/json"

core-client-rest: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/blob/main/sdk/core/core-client-rest/src/sendRequest.ts#L100-L107
keyvault-secrets: azure-sdk-for-js/sdk/keyvault/keyvault-secrets/src/generated/models/parameters.ts at main · maorleger/azure-sdk-for-js

The problem is that while application/json;charset=UTF-8 is accepted by most services it is not correct per the spec... RFC 8259 - The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format because (AFAIK) all json must be UTF-8. My hunch is that most services just ignore the charset parameter. But, some services will complain about an unsupported content type

So I have a few options:

• Convince service owners to always accept application/json;charset=UTF-8 as valid
• Update core-client-rest to emit application/json without the charset
• Handle this in the convenience layer
• a custom pipeline policy

This issue tracks the final resolution and code changes. A workaround for KeyVault involves a custom policy

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @jlichwa @RandalliLama @schaabs.

[jeremymeng]

Capturing some discussions during an internal team meeting. @xirzec found out that some languages don't use charset:

https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/blob/b6dc6e5f69c1451df209508cfa8d4eade105446f/sdk/core/Azure.Core/src/ContentType.cs#L18 .NET seems to not set charset

python too https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/4a63f72e94aeef345cd5fa9320fa91c2efb0d0f7/sdk/core/corehttp/corehttp/rest/_helpers.py#L183

https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java/blob/5ac733ca404e2d38755a1f5e12ee50b429b91d51/sdk/core/azure-core/src/main/java/com/azure/core/http/ContentType.java#L16 java