# # REST.pm # Created by: Adam Jacob, Marchex, # Created on: 10/13/2006 03:54:33 PM PDT # # $Id: $ package Catalyst::Request::REST; use strict; use warnings; use base 'Catalyst::Request'; use HTTP::Headers::Util qw(split_header_words); =head1 NAME Catalyst::Request::REST - A REST-y subclass of Catalyst::Request =head1 SYNOPSIS if ( $c->request->accepts('application/json') ) { ... } my $types = $c->request->accepted_content_types(); =head1 DESCRIPTION This is a subclass of C that adds a few methods to the request object to faciliate writing REST-y code. Currently, these methods are all related to the content types accepted by the client. =head1 METHODS =over 4 data If the request went through the Deserializer action, this method will returned the deserialized data structure. =cut __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(qw(data accept_only)); =item accepted_content_types Returns an array reference of content types accepted by the client. The list of types is created by looking at the following sources: =over 8 =item * Content-type header If this exists, this will always be the first type in the list. =item * content-type parameter If the request is a GET request and there is a "content-type" parameter in the query string, this will come before any types in the Accept header. =item * Accept header This will be parsed and the types found will be ordered by the relative quality specified for each type. =back If a type appears in more than one of these places, it is ordered based on where it is first found. =cut sub accepted_content_types { my $self = shift; return $self->{content_types} if $self->{content_types}; my %types; # First, we use the content type in the HTTP Request. It wins all. $types{ $self->content_type } = 3 if $self->content_type; if ($self->method eq "GET" && $self->param('content-type')) { $types{ $self->param('content-type') } = 2; } # Third, we parse the Accept header, and see if the client # takes a format we understand. # # This is taken from chansen's Apache2::UploadProgress. if ( $self->header('Accept') ) { $self->accept_only(1) unless keys %types; my $accept_header = $self->header('Accept'); my $counter = 0; foreach my $pair ( split_header_words($accept_header) ) { my ( $type, $qvalue ) = @{$pair}[ 0, 3 ]; next if $types{$type}; unless ( defined $qvalue ) { $qvalue = 1 - ( ++$counter / 1000 ); } $types{$type} = sprintf( '%.3f', $qvalue ); } } return $self->{content_types} = [ sort { $types{$b} <=> $types{$a} } keys %types ]; } =item preferred_content_type This returns the first content type found. It is shorthand for: $request->accepted_content_types->[0] =cut sub preferred_content_type { $_[0]->accepted_content_types->[0] } =item accepts($type) Given a content type, this returns true if the type is accepted. Note that this does not do any wildcard expansion of types. =cut sub accepts { my $self = shift; my $type = shift; return grep { $_ eq $type } @{ $self->accepted_content_types }; } =head1 AUTHOR Adam Jacob , with lots of help from mst and jrockway =head1 LICENSE You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut 1;