How to disable built-in formatters?

[bsander]

We have created our own formatters for various response types (json, xml, html). I want to exclusively use these custom formatters and not allow the use of the built-in restify formatters which are still allowing requests with an accept header of appliction/octet-stream or text/plain for example to get through. How can I remove these built-in formatters from my restify instance?

[micahr]

if you pass a set of formatters in to your server:

restify.createServer({
    formatters: { 
        'application/javascript; q=0.1': require('./your-jsonp'),
        'application/json; q=0.4': require('./your-json'),
        'text/plain; q=0.3': require('./your-text'),
        'application/octet-stream; q=0.2': require('./your-binary')
    }
});

You should be able to set the q values lower than the built ins, which will pick yours over the built ins.

[bsander]

@micahr but what about actually disabling these response types? I don't have my own to replace them with, I just want restify to return a 406 like it does with any other unsupported type.

[micahr]

I believe if you pass in a formatters property when creating the server that doesn't have a specific mime-type, that will accomplish what you are looking for. For Example, this would only allow application/javascript as a mime-type.

var javascriptFormatter = require('restify').formatters['application/javascript; q=0.1'];
restify.createServer({
    formatters: { 
        'application/javascript; q=0.1': javascriptFormatter
    }
});

[bsander]

Unfortunately, that is not the case (at least in 2.8.5).