Thanks for the reply. I found my answer. It was at the browser end - TG2 was working properly the whole time. I thought I'd checked for this by using two different browsers, but apparently neither of them were saving the response properly. wget works though.
Sorry for bugging you - nothing quite like that sort of thing to make you feel stupid! Been banging my head against that wall for a couple of hours now!! Cheers Iain Jorge Vargas wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Iain <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but can't work it out - hoping >> someone can help me out. >> >> I'm trying to use JSON with my TG2 app. >> >> I have added the @expose("json") decorator as per the wiki tutorial (I >> did see that this has not actually been TG2-ified yet). With two >> decorators on the page, I can't tell it to use the JSON renderer by >> specifying tg_format=json in the URL - I get an error saying >> unexpected keyword argument tg_format. I gather from the lists that >> the use of tg_format is unlikely to continue, or may even be gone >> already, but I couldn't work out how to ask TG2 to return the page as >> JSON. >> >> > yes tg_format is removed in TG2, the (current) correct way is to use > @expose('json') > > by the way this is documented here http://trac.turbogears.org/ticket/1960 > > >> Anyway, so I got rid of the ordinary template @expose decorator, >> leaving only the @expose("json") and when I visit the URL with my >> browser I do get a application/json type response, but it is empty. No >> error messages in the logs or anything either. >> > > I haven't tried to have two @expose on the same method but I'm pretty > sure only using @expose('json') works fine, I have been using it in > the alpha's and betas. > > What is your controller returning? it should still return a dict, is > it returning an object type that isn't list/dict? maybe posting your > controller will be a good idea. > > As a related note, I think that our final implementation for this will > be to choose the template/render based on the URL, so for example > project.json will return json while project.html will return html from > your default html renderer, this new feature is here > http://trac.turbogears.org/ticket/1473. > >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> Cheers >> Iain >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
