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ASP.NET MVC Multi-format responder
Copyright 2015 Rory A. Murphy
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Mvc;
namespace System.Web.Mvc
{
public enum ContentType {HTML, JSON, XML, RSS, ATOM};
public class XFormatResponder
{
public static readonly Dictionary<string, string> TYPE_NAME_MAPPINGS = new Dictionary<string, string>() {
{"text/html", ContentType.HTML.ToString()},
{"application/json", ContentType.JSON.ToString()},
{"application/xml", ContentType.XML.ToString()}
};
public XFormatResponder()
{
this._responders = new Dictionary<string, Func<ActionResult>>();
this._preferenceOrder = new List<string>();
}
private Dictionary<string, Func<ActionResult>> _responders;
private List<string> _preferenceOrder;
public Func<ActionResult> this[ContentType contentType]
{
get
{
return this[contentType.ToString()];
}
set
{
this[contentType.ToString()] = value;
}
}
public Func<ActionResult> this[string contentType]
{
get
{
return this._responders[contentType];
}
set
{
this._responders[contentType] = value;
this._preferenceOrder.Add(contentType);
}
}
internal ActionResult Respond(System.Web.HttpRequestBase request)
{
if(this._preferenceOrder.Count == 0){return null;}
Func<ActionResult> result = null;
SingleValueEventArgs<IDictionary<string, string>> mappings = new SingleValueEventArgs<IDictionary<string, string>>()
{
Value = new Dictionary<string, string>(TYPE_NAME_MAPPINGS)
};
foreach(string aType in request.AcceptTypes){
if ("*/*" == aType) {
result = this._responders[this._preferenceOrder[0]];
break;
}
else if (mappings.Value.ContainsKey(aType))
{
string cType = mappings.Value[aType];
if (this._responders.ContainsKey(cType))
{
result = this._responders[cType];
break;
}
}
}
if (result == null) { return null; }
return result();
}
}
}
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