Question/How-To: best practice for getting response headers from rest call?

[jimlears]

what's the best way to get access to the response headers from a REST call with the following conditions?

1. no custom DataAdapter*
2. using app.fetch()
3. bypassing apiProxy with absolute urls

*this is causing Browserify issues currently and, I hope, there has to be a better/easier way to get at those headers without a lot of custom code.

[saponifi3d]

@jimlears - looking into this issue a bit i noticed that Backbone does this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20425491/get-response-headers-after-backbone-fetch-is-complete

It looks like we could return the data in the same way, would that fit the bill for everything you need?

[jimlears]

@saponifi3d I wish, but that won't work server side

[saponifi3d]

@jimlears yeah - i think one of the biggest problems is that it would need to return the headers for multiple requests as well.

My current though is I can add an additional parameter that is an array of request objects that you can then access the header information in (should be formatted the same way between server / client). Looks like we could do that in the shared/fetcher.js