Render different format from the same action

[harikt]

Currently Aura.Framework 's view ends with name <action-name>.php Eg : https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Framework/blob/develop/src/Aura/Framework/Web/Hello/views/world.php .
I was wondering what will happen if we want to render a json value.

I think its implemented ( https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.View/blob/develop/src/Aura/View/TwoStep.php#L512 ) , but I am still trying to figure out how to make use of it.

May I know how this is going to happen for I can also check on Mustache, Twig etc .

[harikt]

@pmjones I am also waiting for your answer on
https://github.com/harikt/Aura.Framework/commit/7be93249df429d015de0796ceb2a5819c402982c
Probably this has some relationship ?

[harikt]

I think we should have a Json rendering strategy in core. Can we make it happen for Beta3 ?

[harikt]

So I did something like

public function actionLogin()
{
    $this->view = [
        '.json' => 'login.json.php',
        '.html' => 'login.html.php',
        '.xml' => 'login.xml.php'
    ];
    echo "login";
}

Now the problem is $this->controller->getFormat() the method exec() of AuraViewTwoStep is not getting the right format.

Thus the TwoStep method getView($view, $format) of Aura\View returns an array . Thus we are getting an error Array to string conversion in package/Aura.View/src/Aura/View/TwoStep.php on line 449 View name : format : Array Warning: substr() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in package/Aura.View/src/Aura/View/AbstractTemplate.php on line 265

I will also look what is wrong . But if you know how we can fix easily let me know.

Thanks

[harikt]

So I added a default format as .html . But according to me I feel even if the user has not provided the format we should render in html . Thoughts ?

$di->get('router_map')->add('fb_login', '/fb/login', [
    'values' => [
        'controller' => 'facebook',
        'action' => 'login',
        'format' => '.html'
    ],
]);

Also curl -i http://localhost:8000/fb/login -H "Accept: application/json" also giving html. So I feel the format is not getting correctly ?

[pmjones]

@harikt Did the bugfix in pull 17 remedy this?

[harikt]

@pmjones Yes. Fixed by #17 . If any other issues I will open another one.