Comments on: FubuMVC – Define your actions your way

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:34:23 +0000

What I meant was essentially returning different “views” of the same model based on file extension or some header info, but using the same action. So for example /security/signin would return full view of login widget with layout, /security/signin.json might return just data for an Ajax call, but they use the same action returning the same model.

By: Joshua Flanagan

Joshua Flanagan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:02:14 +0000

Jamie/Ryan – can you describe more concretely what you would like to see with a “returning different media types” feature? What is a real world example of when you would want to do this? Would you expect to invoke an entirely different action depending on the request? Or are you always executing the same action, with the same output model, and you just want to format it differently? If I can better understand the need, I might be able to put together a post on how to do it with Fubu.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:31:06 +0000

I’m also interested in returning different media types based on header and/or file extension. Is there a blog post out there where someone describes IActionBehavior, or could you point us in the right direction? Thanks!

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:32:09 +0000

This is great stuff, thanks!

By: Ryan Riley

Ryan Riley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:21:45 +0000

This is AWESOME. I figured you’d have made it this flexible, but after awhile you start getting cynical about how “flexible” a framework or library really is. Well done! Thanks for the responses!

By: Joshua Flanagan

Joshua Flanagan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:00:39 +0000

@Ryan,
You can definitely build those routes. You’d have to add DELETE to the list of httpVerbs in the SimpleWebsiteFubuRegistry (it was overlooked), and then modify the URL policy to expect an ID as part of the route if the input to the action has an Id property:
http://pastie.org/784219

Returning different media types could be handled through a behavior (IActionBehavior), which I didn’t cover in this post.

By: Jeremy D. Miller

Jeremy D. Miller — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:06:09 +0000

@Ryan,

Don’t like Josh’s “REST-inspired so don’t flame me for calling it REST” style? No big deal, just make your own Fubu convention to suit *your* team. We (the Fubu team) are very cognizant of the fact that others won’t like our conventions, so we’re striving to make it possible for you to write/add/modify conventions on a project by project basis.

By: Ryan Riley

Ryan Riley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:41:53 +0000

Would it be possible to define a MoviesEndpoint and a MovieEndpoint with the following:
Route Action
————————– ———————————–
[POST] /movies MoviesEndpoint.Post()
[GET] /movies MoviesEndpoint.Get()
[DELETE] /movie/1 MovieEndpoint.Delete(1)

Also, what about returning different media types based on either a ‘.json’ convention or by setting the EXPECTS header to text/json?