symfony-bundle content-type-negotiation-bundle

elseym/content-type-negotiation-bundle

Enables Symfony2 apps to serve different content types under the same URI based on the HTTP Accept header.

Symfony 2 Content Type Negotiation Bundle

This bundle can be used to enable a simple content type negotiation in Symfony2 applications. To use it, just include it as a dependency in your composer.json and register the bundle in your AppKernel:, _(*1)

composer.json:, _(*2)

...
"require": {
    ...
    "elseym/content-type-negotiation-bundle": "dev-master"
}
...

app/AppKernel.php:, _(*3)

...
$bundles = array(
    ...
    new elseym\ContentTypeNegotiationBundle\elseymContentTypeNegotiationBundle(),
    ...
);

Usage

The key component of this bundle is an EventListener that registeres for kernel.controller events and selects the best suitable controller action for each request. This decision is based on the value of a requests Accept header., _(*4)

For a request with an Accept header like this:, _(*5)

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

The bundle would try to use one the following controller actions:, _(*6)

• indexActionHtmlText
• indexActionHtml
• indexActionXhtmlXmlApplication
• indexActionXhtmlXml
• indexActionXmlApplication
• indexActionXml
• indexAction