This plugin makes it easier to to respond to specific request data types. User agents can request specific data types by either supplying an appropriate Accept request header or by appending it as file extension to the path.

Example:

plugin :type_routing

route do |r|
  r.get 'a' do
    r.html{ "<h1>This is the HTML response</h1>" }
    r.json{ '{"json": "ok"}' }
    r.xml{ "<root>This is the XML response</root>" }
    "Unsupported data type"
  end
end

This application will handle the following paths:

/a.html	HTML response
/a.json	JSON response
/a.xml	XML response
/a	HTML, JSON, or XML response, depending on the Accept header

The response Content-Type header will be set to a suitable value when the r.html, r.json, or r.xml block is matched.

Note that if no match is found, code will continue to execute, which can result in unexpected behaviour. This should only happen if you do not handle all supported/configured types. If you want to simplify handling, you can just place the html handling after the other types, without using a separate block:

route do |r|
  r.get 'a' do
    r.json{ '{"json": "ok"}' }
    r.xml{ "<root>This is the XML response</root>" }

    "<h1>This is the HTML response</h1>"
  end
end

This works correctly because Roda’s default Content-Type is text/html. Note that if you use this approach, the type_routing plugin’s :html content type will not be used for html responses, since you aren’t using an r.html block. Instead, the Content-Type header will be set to Roda’s default (which you can override via the default_headers plugin).

If the type routing is based on the Accept request header and not the file extension, then an appropriate Vary header will be set or appended to, so that HTTP caches do not serve the same result for requests with different Accept headers.

To match custom extensions, use the :types option:

plugin :type_routing, types: {
  yaml: 'application/x-yaml',
  js: 'application/javascript; charset=utf-8'
}

route do |r|
  r.get 'a' do
    r.yaml{ YAML.dump "YAML data" }
    r.js{ "JavaScript code" }
    # or:
    r.on_type(:js){ "JavaScript code" }
    "Unsupported data type"
  end
end

Plugin options

The following plugin options are supported:

:default_type	The default data type to assume if the client did not provide one. Defaults to :html.
:exclude	Exclude one or more types from the default set (default set is :html, :xml, :json).
:types	Mapping from a data type to its MIME-Type. Used both to match incoming requests and to provide Content-Type values. If the value is nil, no Content-Type will be set. The type may contain media type parameters, which will be sent to the client but ignored for request matching.
:use_extension	Whether to take the path extension into account. Default is true.
:use_header	Whether to take the Accept header into account. Default is true.

Methods

Public Class

1. configure

Classes and Modules

1. Roda::RodaPlugins::TypeRouting::RequestMethods