NAME

   Dancer2::Plugin::SendAs - (DEPRECATED) Dancer2 plugin to send data as
   specific content type

VERSION

   version 0.002

SYNOPSIS

       use Dancer2;
       use Dancer2::Plugin::SendAs;

       set serializer => 'YAML';
       set template => 'template_toolkit';

       get '/html' => sub {
           send_as html => template 'foo';
       };

       get '/json/**' => sub {
           send_as json => splat;
       };

DESCRIPTION

   This plugin is DEPRECATED. The send_as functionality was merged into
   Dancer2 v0.200000.

   A plugin to make it easy to return a specific content type from routes.

   When an app has a serializer defined, returning HTML content is messy.
   You could use send_file, but need to take care of encoding yourself,
   adding unnecessary boilerplate. Another solution is to split your app;
   resulting in routes that return serialized content separated from
   routes that return HTML. If there are a small number of routes (think
   O(1)) that return HTML, splitting the app is tedious.

   Conversly, returning serialized content from a small number of routes
   from an app that otherwise returns HTML has similar issues.

   This plugin provides a send_as keyword, allowing content to be returned
   from any available Dancer2 serializer, or HTML.

METHODS

send_as type => content

   Send the content "serialized" using the specified serializer, or as
   HTML if no matching serializer is found.

   Any available Dancer2 serializer may be used. Serializers are loaded at
   runtime (if necessary). Both the uppercase 'type' and the provided case
   of the type are used to find an appropriate serializer class to use.

   The implementation of send_as uses Dancer2's send_file. Your route will
   be exited immediately when send_as is executed. send_file will stream
   content back to the client if your server supports psgi streaming.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

   This module has been written during the Perl Dancer 2015
   <https://www.perl.dance/> conference.

AUTHOR

   Russell Jenkins <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

   This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Russell Jenkins.

   This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
   the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.