Different output types for the same controller->action about yaf

[laruence]

I think you can do such check in Yaf_Plugin::dispatchLoopStartup, then twist the Yaf_Response into any form you deteced in DispatchLoopShutdown

[guilhermeaiolfi]

That would mean I would had the same data in all forms. I want to fetch the data depending on the output type. It's not just a case of "formatting" the output.

[akDeveloper]

@guilhermeaiolfi i think that you need a custom Route.
A custom Route can match a request against http_accept or by url 'extension' ex product/1.xml, product/1.json etc.
So according to request you can tel the Route execute the action you want.
But in most cases a browser sends an http_accept like text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml; so a good solution for browser based applications, not REST API, it is a good practice to play with url 'extension'

[zh-ang]

@guilhermeaiolfi Another solution:
Make different views for HTML/XML/JSON into different view directories, you could keep default view path as APPLICATION_PATH/views, and create APPLICATION_PATH/views.json/, APPLICATION_PATH/views.xml/ or APPLICATION_PATH/views.mobile/. Then let Plugin to setScriptPath for view on different condition.
Hope it could answer your question.

[guilhermeaiolfi]

@zh-ang: That's the closest I was thinking of. But that would require a lot more files than needed in my case. That's why I was thinking in different method for each output type and not different view/class/files. But I'm confident that it'll be possible and that it'll not be difficult. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

[guilhermeaiolfi]

Wouldn't it be nice to support this concept in the Yaf core? In a world of backbone, ember, angularjs, knockout and so many others. The server side of things needs to delivery all kinds of data depending on who is requesting. I think that's where web developing is heading.

My case is that my ERP request data using SOAP, I'm creating a web admin panel that uses a REST API, and the regular user/visitor uses plain HTML.