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.

Methods

Included Modules

Attributes

[RW] format

Class Public methods

new(mimes, variant = nil)

📝 Source code 
# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 235
      def initialize(mimes, variant = nil)
        @responses = {}
        @variant = variant

        mimes.each { |mime| @responses[Mime[mime]] = nil }
      end
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Instance Public methods

all(*args, &block)

Alias for: any

any(*args, &block)

Also aliased as: all
📝 Source code 
# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 242
      def any(*args, &block)
        if args.any?
          args.each { |type| send(type, &block) }
        else
          custom(Mime::ALL, &block)
        end
      end
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custom(mime_type, &block)

📝 Source code 
# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 251
      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
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negotiate_format(request)

📝 Source code 
# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 273
      def negotiate_format(request)
        @format = request.negotiate_mime(@responses.keys)
      end
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response()

📝 Source code 
# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 260
      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
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