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# Change a Script’s MIME Type Output

> For the full documentation index, see: https://docs.mulesoft.com/llms.txt

The DataWeave examples show how to differentiate the output MIME type from the MIME type in which
the output data is formatted. Such differentiation enables a Mule application to output a MIME type
that clients can use to determine how to render the application’s output data. An example is HTTP,
which uses the MIME type to generate its `Content-Type` header.

The first example uses the "problem details" standard for APIs. The standard requires the
`application/problem+json` content type in the response header and a JSON-formatted response body
that contains specific keys.

The example is a Mule flow that handles HTTP requests but always fails. The failure triggers the
error handler, which sets the status code to 400 and uses a DataWeave script to produce a response
that conforms to the standard.

The DataWeave output directive `output application/problem+json with json` instructs the script to
produce a response with the `application/problem+json` MIME type and a JSON-formatted body.

A client that receives the 400 error uses the `Content-Type: application/problem+json` in the
response to determine that it can handle the response data in the standard way, for example, using
the `title` key it expects. By contrast, the MIME type `Content-Type: application/json`, without
`problem+`, fails to indicate whether the client can handle the error in that way.

Mule Flow:

```xml
<flow name="problemDetailFlow">
		<http:listener config-ref="HTTP_Listener_config" path="/test">
			<http:error-response statusCode="#[vars.statusCode]" >
				<http:body ><![CDATA[#[payload]]]></http:body>
			</http:error-response>
		</http:listener>
		<raise-error doc:name="Raise error" type="CUSTOM:FORCED" description="This is a manual error to force the execution of the error handler."/>
		<error-handler >
			<on-error-propagate>
				<set-variable value="#[400]" variableName="statusCode"/>
				<ee:transform>
					<ee:message>
						<ee:set-payload><![CDATA[%dw 2.0
output application/problem+json with json
---
{
  "type": "https://example.org/out-of-stock",
  title: "Out of Stock",
  status: vars.statusCode,
  detail: "Item B00027Y5QG is no longer available",
  product: "B00027Y5QG"
}]]></ee:set-payload>
					</ee:message>
				</ee:transform>
			</on-error-propagate>
		</error-handler>
	</flow>
```

Response:

```text
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: application/problem+json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 173
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:48:23 GMT
Connection: close

[data-source-url=modules/ROOT/pages/_partials/cookbook-dw/change-script-output-mime-ex1-partial-solution]
{
  "type": "https://example.org/out-of-stock",
  "title": "Out of Stock",
  "status": 400,
  "detail": "Item B00027Y5QG is no longer available",
  "product": "B00027Y5QG"
}
```

In the next example, the Mule flow returns `text/markdown` content generated by DataWeave as simple
text. A browser that supports Markdown might render the input as bulleted content according to the
rules of Markdown instead of rendering it in plain text with asterisks.

Mule Flow:

```xml
<flow name="listFlow">
  <http:listener config-ref="HTTP_Listener_config" path="/some.md"/>
  <ee:transform>
    <ee:message>
      <ee:set-payload ><![CDATA[%dw 2.0
output text/markdown with text
---
"* idea 1
* some other idea"]]></ee:set-payload>
    </ee:message>
  </ee:transform>
</flow>
```

Response:

```text
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 26
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:28:36 GMT

* idea 1
* some other idea
```

## See Also

- [DataWeave Formats](https://docs.mulesoft.com/dataweave/2.11/dataweave-formats)

- [DataWeave Cookbook](https://docs.mulesoft.com/dataweave/2.11/dataweave-cookbook)