A container for responses available from the current controller for requests for different mime-types sent to a particular action.
The public controller methods respond_to
may be called with a
block that is used to define responses to different mime-types, e.g. for
respond_to
:
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.xml { render xml: @people }
end
In this usage, the argument passed to the block (format
above)
is an instance of the ActionController::MimeResponds::Collector class.
This object serves as a container in which available responses can be
stored by calling any of the dynamically generated, mime-type-specific
methods such as html
, xml
etc on the Collector. Each response is represented by a
corresponding block if present.
A subsequent call to negotiate_format(request) will enable the Collector to determine which specific mime-type it should respond with for the current request, with this response then being accessible by calling response.
[RW] | format |
# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 249 def custom(mime_type, &block) mime_type = Mime::Type.lookup(mime_type.to_s) unless mime_type.is_a?(Mime::Type) @responses[mime_type] ||= if block_given? block else VariantCollector.new(@variant) end end
# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 258 def response response = @responses.fetch(format, @responses[Mime::ALL]) if response.is_a?(VariantCollector) # `format.html.phone` - variant inline syntax response.variant elsif response.nil? || response.arity == 0 # `format.html` - just a format, call its block response else # `format.html{ |variant| variant.phone }` - variant block syntax variant_collector = VariantCollector.new(@variant) response.call(variant_collector) # call format block with variants collector variant_collector.variant end end