Support request Accept header about hapi

[matthiasg]

this feature is also implemented in restify in a rather unobtrusive manner (http://mcavage.github.io/node-restify/#Routing)

[hueniverse]

This belongs in a plugin.

[chadkouse]

Does a plugin exist yet? If not I may be interested in creating one. Currently I'm using the negotiator package and hacking it together like:

var availableMediaTypes = ['text/html', 'application/json']
var negotiator = new Negotiator(request.raw.req);
var mime = negotiator.preferredMediaType(availableMediaTypes);

switch (availableMediaTypes.indexOf(mime)) {
  case 1:
    //json version
    ...
    break;
  case 0:
  default:
    //html version
    ...
    break;
}

if the route config could include a section to indicate the supported media types, and maybe even indicate the handler per media type, then a plugin should be able to be built to call the handler automatically based on the requested media type.

[hueniverse]

How do you use it in your app? Do you generate one internal representation in the handler and then transform it at the end? or do you have different handlers?

[chadkouse]

I could see how both could be useful, however in my app so far I'm using a single handler / single(ish) internal representation / transform --chad

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Eran Hammer [email protected]
wrote:

How do you use it in your app? Do you generate one internal representation in the handler and then transform it at the end? or do you have different handlers?

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[hueniverse]

If I was going to support conneg, I would do it at the very end in onPreResponse.

[felipeleusin]

I saw this and ended up making a plugin that fitted my needs https://github.com/felipeleusin/hapi-negotiator it's my first hapi plugin but I hope it helps someone used in my project but not sure about the api/configuration options

[hueniverse]

@felipeleusin you should have it listed on hapijs.com. Just open a PR.