acts_as_api via ActionController::Metal? about acts_as_api

[mepatterson]

FOLLOWUP:

I did get this to work, albeit a bit hacky:

class Api::V1::ApiController < ActionController::Metal
  include AbstractController::Logger
  include ActionController::UrlFor
  include ActionController::Testing
  include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
  include ActionController::Rendering
  include ActionController::Renderers::All
  include ActionController::MimeResponds
  include ActsAsApi::Rendering

  self.responder = ActsAsApi::Responder
  respond_to :json, :xml

  private

  def default_render; render; end
end

... would be nice if there was a simpler way to tell acts_as_api that it's being used in a metal controller.

[fabrik42]

I didn't try it yet, but I'll take a look into it if I find some time :)

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mepatterson
mailto:[email protected]
28. Juni 2011 00:30

Ran up against a number of issues while trying to integrate
acts_as_api into a metal controller.

top of the class looks like this so far:

class Api::V1::UsersController < ActionController::Metal
include AbstractController::Logger
include ActionController::UrlFor
include ActionController::Testing
include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
include ActionController::Rendering
include ActionController::Renderers::All
include ActionController::MimeResponds

self.responder = ActsAsApi::Responder

... but i get problems with missing a 'default_render' method, among
other things. Any idea how to get this to work with metal? I don't
want all the other stuff that comes along with my app's
ApplicationController and I want it to be super-fast...

[nicholasmott]

Just an update in case this will help someone else - I recently added acts_as_api to a metal controller. The following was the minimum to make it work successfully.

class Api::V1::BaseController < ActionController::Metal
  include ActionController::Rendering
  include ActionController::Renderers::All
  include ActionController::MimeResponds
  include ActsAsApi::Rendering

  self.responder = ActsAsApi::Responder
  respond_to :json

end

Updates to either Rails or acts_as_api have removed the need for the default_render call. It's now no harder to add than to a standard controller.

[fabrik42]

Cool. So I guess I can close this issue now.

Do you mind, if I put you comment in a Wiki article (pointing to you and this issue)?

[nicholasmott]

Fine with me.