Sorry, I missed the followups when I answered just now. > Anyone in the room using the "format" option against non-view actions?
Yes, my current project allows view, create and update in json in several places where html is the default. There's a discussion about how I did it (with a skeleton update action) in this previous thread: http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/927f4367d5367fc2 Regards, Mike On May 8, 7:22 am, Alexandre Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > 2010/5/8 Mike Orr <[email protected]>: > > > The routes created by map.resource include a 'formatted_*' route > > alongside each regular route. The formatted routes have a '.FORMAT' > > suffix at the end of the URL; e.g., /articles/1234.xml, which you can > > access via the 'format' routing variable. This allows you to return > > the data in an alternate format. Of course, your action would have to > > support those formats or abort(404) if it doesn't. I don't know what > > editing in XML format would mean, or whether multi-formats makes sense > > for any action besides view. But if you had a web service that could > > accept either JSON or XML or other formats, it might work for that. > > Thanks a lot. I'm glad you figured out I was talking about > map.resource (and paster restcontroller), I forgot to mention it. > > I see, then maybe "format" would be specified to tell Pylons that the > POST'ed request should be treated as XML/JSON input data. Or something > like that... > > Anyone in the room using the "format" option against non-view actions? > > -- > Alex > twitter.com/alexconrad > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
