NAME

Dancer2::Plugin::Ajax - a plugin for adding Ajax route handlers

VERSION

version 0.400000

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
package MyWebApp;
use Dancer2;
use Dancer2::Plugin::Ajax;
# For GET / POST
ajax '/check_for_update' => sub {
    my $self = shift;
    # ... some Ajax code
};
# For all valid HTTP methods
ajax ['get', 'post', ... ] => '/check_for_more' => sub {
    my $self = shift;
    # ... some Ajax code
};
dance;
            
          

DESCRIPTION

The ajax keyword which is exported by this plugin allows you to define a route handler optimized for Ajax queries.

The route handler code will be compiled to behave like the following:

• Pass if the request header X-Requested-With doesn't equal XMLHttpRequest

• Disable the layout

• The action built matches POST / GET requests by default. This can be extended by passing it an ArrayRef of allowed HTTP methods.

The route handler gets the Dancer $self object passed in, just like any other Dancer2 route handler. You can use this to inspect the request data.

            

              
              
ajax '/check_for_update' => sub {
    my $self = shift;
     
    my $method = $self->app->request->method;
    # ...
}
            
          

CONFIGURATION

By default the plugin will use a content-type of 'text/xml', but this can be overridden with the plugin setting content_type.

Here is an example to use JSON:

            

              
              
plugins:
  Ajax:
    content_type: 'application/json'
            
          

AUTHOR

Dancer Core Developers

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Alexis Sukrieh.

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