Adding an alias named contents to the html property of the shell-empty component #1122
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Good idea, thanks @olivierauverlot . I think we should go further and mention "contents" as the primary name of the property.
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| ### Return data in a format other than HTML | ||
| If you create a RESTful API with SQLPage and the data format transmitted to the client is not HTML, | ||
| you can use an alias named `contents` to enhance the readability of your code. | ||
| This approach is particularly useful for returning data formats such as JSON or XML. |
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You are perfectly right, and I would even go further. I think the docs should mention "html" as being an alias for "contents", not the other way around. "html" is indeed misleading.
We should have a markdown code block here to show a quickly copy-pastable example of both setting the http header and the contents.
We should probably also mention the download component here : https://sql-page.com/component.sql?component=download
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I am glad that we share the same opinion on this matter. I have made the modifications in the documentation :) |
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If you create a RESTful API with SQLPage and the data format transmitted to the client is not HTML, you can use an alias named
contentsto enhance the readability of your code. This approach is particularly useful for returning data formats such as JSON or XML.For this use case, using the
htmlproperty is inconsistent and can be confusing when reading the code.