What is the best way to handle dynamic content_type in Sinatra
- by lusis
I'm currently doing the following but it feels "kludgy":
module Sinatra
module DynFormat
def dform(data,ct)
if ct == 'xml';return data.to_xml;end
if ct == 'json';return data.to_json;end
end
end
helpers DynFormat
end
My goal is to plan ahead. Right now we're only working with XML for this particular web service but we want to move over to JSON as soon as all the components in our stack support it.
Here's a sample route:
get '/api/people/named/:name/:format' do
format = params[:format]
h = {'xml' => 'text/xml','json' => 'application/json'}
content_type h[format], :charset => 'utf-8'
person = params[:name]
salesperson = Salespeople.find(:all, :conditions => ['name LIKE ?', "%#{person}%"])
"#{dform(salesperson,format)}"
end
It just feels like I'm not doing it the best way possible.
