To override the Content-type in your clients, use the HTTP Accept Header, append the .xml suffix or ?format=xml
HTTP + XML
The following are sample HTTP requests and responses.
The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.
POST /RestApi/search/suggestions HTTP/1.1
Host: www.asg.com.au
Accept: application/xml
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: length
<SuggestionsRequest xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Telerik.Sitefinity.Search.Impl.Services.DTO">
<IndexName>String</IndexName>
<Language>String</Language>
<ResultsForAllSites>false</ResultsForAllSites>
<ScoringInfo>String</ScoringInfo>
<SiteId>String</SiteId>
<SuggestionFields>String</SuggestionFields>
<Text>String</Text>
</SuggestionsRequest>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: length
<SuggestionsResponse xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Telerik.Sitefinity.Search.Impl.Services.DTO">
<Suggestions xmlns:d2p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
<d2p1:string>String</d2p1:string>
</Suggestions>
</SuggestionsResponse>