Thanks Simon and Anthony for the quick replies. This is a controller and I'll try the suggestions.
On Friday, May 25, 2012 5:26:49 PM UTC-7, Anthony wrote: > > Is "api" a controller or function? Either way, you can prevent html > requests by (a) making sure there is no .html view file associated with the > particular function and (b) making sure you don't enable the generic.html > view for that controller/function. For example, somewhere in the controller > or function: > > response.generic_patterns = ['xml', 'json'] > > Also, are you hoping to default to an xml response without having to add > the .xml extension to the urls? In that case, somewhere in the controller > or function, you could do: > > if request.extension not in ['xml', 'json']: > response.view = '%s/%s.xml' % (request.controller, request.function) > request.extension = 'xml' # only needed if you have enabled > generic.xml > > Anthony > > On Friday, May 25, 2012 6:55:17 PM UTC-4, bob wrote: >> >> Probably a simple question and I searched both the docs and the group. >> >> I have a path /api and I never want to return a html reply, I'm ok >> with a .xml or .json reply and would like to have the default be .xml >> >> The big issue is that I want other urls (i.e. /default/) to return html >> as the default. >> >> thanks, >> bob >> >
