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I'm trying to send a header response back from our api with a http status code 201 Created and a Location:header.

No matter what I do I get a response body too, something that I don't want.

If I return an empty string (return "";), restler will put the string '""' in the response body. If I return null or do not return anything at all restler will put the string 'null' in the response body.

How do I tell Restler to not send anything but headers?

Bobo Wieland
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UPDATE :-

With the latest release of Restler 3 RC4. Returning null sends empty body for the response

This behaviour can be changed by setting

Defaults::$emptyBodyForNullResponse = false;

You can use @status comment to set the response code to 201

and @header comment for setting the location header

For older versions use the technique described below

From your api method, set both status and location header using header function followed by die or exit

header("HTTP/1.0 201 Created");
header('Location: http://api.example.com/item/45');
die();

This is a very valid use case that demands better way of doing this, We will soon update this answer with those solutions

Thanks for contributing to Restler :)

Arul Kumaran
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