Difference of output between explorer and actual API

[jackdeguest]

Regarding the endpoint /v1/diff/{distribution}[1] there is a difference of output between the API explorer and the live API.

The explorer returns a plain text diff, whereas the live API returns JSON data.

Here I have used HTTP-Message as an example.

[1]

metacpan-api/lib/MetaCPAN/Server/Controller/Diff.pm

Line 31 in d87b275

sub release : Chained('index') : PathPart('release') : Args(1) {

[oalders]

I'm guessing we'd need to be looking here:

metacpan-api/lib/MetaCPAN/Server/Controller/Diff.pm

Line 80 in d87b275

my $ct = try { $c->req->preferred_content_type };

[oalders]

The explorer looks to be sending

Accept: text/plain, */*; q=0.01

[jackdeguest]

The explorer looks to be sending

Also, every method in MetaCPAN::Server::Controller::Diff is calling _do_diff by passing it a true value for $include_raw as the final argument.