A container for responses available from the current controller for requests for different mime-types sent to a particular action.

The public controller methods respond_with and respond_to may be called with a block that is used to define responses to different mime-types, e.g. for respond_to :

respond_to do |format|
  format.html
  format.xml { render xml: @people }
end

In this usage, the argument passed to the block (format above) is an instance of the ActionController::MimeResponds::Collector class. This object serves as a container in which available responses can be stored by calling any of the dynamically generated, mime-type-specific methods such as html, xml etc on the Collector. Each response is represented by a corresponding block if present.

A subsequent call to negotiate_format(request) will enable the Collector to determine which specific mime-type it should respond with for the current request, with this response then being accessible by calling response.

Methods
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Included Modules
Attributes
[RW] format
[RW] order
Class Public methods
new(mimes)

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# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 402
def initialize(mimes)
  @order, @responses = [], {}
  mimes.each { |mime| send(mime) }
end
Instance Public methods
all(*args, &block)
Alias for: any
any(*args, &block)
Also aliased as: all

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# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 407
def any(*args, &block)
  if args.any?
    args.each { |type| send(type, &block) }
  else
    custom(Mime::ALL, &block)
  end
end
custom(mime_type, &block)

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# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 416
def custom(mime_type, &block)
  mime_type = Mime::Type.lookup(mime_type.to_s) unless mime_type.is_a?(Mime::Type)
  @order << mime_type
  @responses[mime_type] ||= block
end
negotiate_format(request)

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# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 426
def negotiate_format(request)
  @format = request.negotiate_mime(order)
end
response()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb, line 422
def response
  @responses.fetch(format, @responses[Mime::ALL])
end