Adding to my own email... Puneet Kishor wrote:
I am fairly certain I saw mention of this in the docs, but I can't find it now, so here goes --
The route `get '/all'` is invoked from the browser by going to http://application/foo/all. This causes a template to be rendered with all the "chrome" of the application, the buttons, the forms, the logos, bylines, etc. The crap that Edward Tufte refers to as "administrivia." This template is appropriately filled with data from a query for "all" foo widgets from the data store.
Well, I also want `get '/all'` to callable from the command line. So, if the user types
$ curl http://application/foo/all
a json stream of all the foo widgets is returned.
How do I accomplish the above? That is, have a single route called `get '/all'` and yet be able to call it either from a browser or from a command line but with different "stuff" returned? Seems like the ajax plugin is not the solution? or is it? I can't make out from its documentation.
I guess what I want is to determine where the request is coming from, perhaps via the headers. If it is an XHR then send only the json stream, otherwise, send back the template. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Fellow http://creativecommons.org/about/people/fellows#puneetkishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ===========================================================================