Rest Controller + Crud Controller

dyulax · April 14, 2014, 1:25pm

Is there any way I can write controllers like in Rails, which will respond with JSON/XML (serialization) or HTML (view file) according to the request?

As long as I saw, I would need two separate controllers in Yii.

Angel_De_La_Noche · April 14, 2014, 1:37pm

Yes you can

See this

github.com

samdark/yii2-cookbook/blob/master/book/response-formats.md

Working with different response types
=====================================

Web and mobile applications are more than just rendered HTML nowadays.
Modern architecture moves the UI to the client, where all user interactions are handled by the client-side, utilizing server APIs to drive the frontend.
The JSON and XML formats are often used for serializing and transmitting structured data over a network, so the ability to create such responses is a must for any modern server framework.

Response formats
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As you probably know, in Yii2 you need to `return` the result from your action, instead of echoing it directly:

```php
// returning HTML result
return $this->render('index', [
    'items' => $items,
]);
```

Good thing about it is now you can return different types of data from your action, namely:

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dyulax · April 14, 2014, 1:46pm

So inside each action I will have to check all response formats? Is there any out-of-the-box way to do this?

Angel_De_La_Noche · April 14, 2014, 2:09pm

Yes there is.

See this

https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/blob/master/docs/guide/rest.md

dyulax · April 14, 2014, 3:56pm

I read that today and I just didn’t pay attention to the content negotiators. Thanks for your help!