Fellow Dancers,

At the Dancer conference in Vienna last week, Dancer2::Plugin::SendAs was developed
and released. This plugin makes it easy to return either serialized content or HTML
from a route. Here's the synopsis:

  use Dancer2;
  use Dancer2::Plugin::SendAs;
 
  set serializer => 'YAML';
  set template => 'template_toolkit';
 
  # returns HTML content, though YAML serializer is configured
  get '/html' => sub {
      send_as html => template 'foo';
  };
 
  # returns JSON content, even with YAML serializer configured
  get '/json/**' => sub {
      send_as json => splat;  # JSON, not YAML!
  };


Sawyer and I briefly discussed if this should be core functionality during the conference.
We decided to release it as a plugin and review moving it to core if other Dancers find
this functionality useful.

Grab it from CPAN and give it a workout [1]. If send_as solves an issue for your apps or
makes your code simpler, let us know (responding here if fine). If there is enough [2]
feedback that this is generally useful, we'll make it core functionality.

Happy dancing!
  Russell.

[1] I'm doing some post-conference travel, so haven't used it in anger myself yet.
[2] Don't ask me to quantify "enough" ;)