Re: [Openinteract-help] Using several content-generators for one action?

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

> I'm currently trying out Martin Kutters SOAP add on for OpenInteract2.
> My idea is to use soap as remote API for OI2. Thus I would like to have
> two content-generators for all packages, one giving the usual
> html-response, and the other one giving a soap response.

That's been my idea for SOAP as well.

> When I understand the current implementation of OI correct, then it is
> in principle possible to have several content generators in OI, but one
> action has exactly one content generator, defined by the action.ini
> file, not by the Response-type. I hope I'm wrong with this assumption,
> so my question is, how do I enable different content-generators for one
> action? Or is my understanding of an 'action' wrong?

Your understanding is right. But I think what's missing is you can map
multiple action specifications to the same class. For instance in an
action.ini you might have:

[foo]
class = OpenInteract2::Action::Foo
content_generator = TT

[bar]
class = OpenInteract2::Action::Foo
content_generator = SOAP

The same data are retrieved from the action + task, but they're passed off
to a different content generator depending on how they were invoked. Make
sense?

The 'news' package has some commented-out examples of doing this with
Text::Template and HTML::Template.

> And in some packages, I haven't seen the content_generator flag in the
> action.ini. Where is the default defined?

In server.ini:

[action_info default]
controller         = tt-template
content_generator  = TT

Hope this helps,

Chris

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