[Dancer-users] How to un-prettify JSON?

[Mr. Puneet Kishor]

On Mar 13, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Alastair Sherringham wrote:

> On 13 March 2011 09:29, Alastair Sherringham <sherringham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> set serializer  => 'JSON';
>> get '/products' => sub {
>>    return db_products();
>> };
> 
> If I replace the above with :
> 
> get '/products' => sub {
>    my $product_list = db_products();
>    content_type 'application/json';
>    return to_json($product_list,{ pretty => 0});
> };
> 
> It works - non-pretty-printed JSON.
> 
> This is actually documented in Dancer.pm (to_json section) :
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dancer/lib/Dancer.pm#to_json_%28$structure,_%options%29
> 
> So, my error on missing that.
> ..

Oh! fantastic! I would venture that the above is "hidden" in the documentation. Adding your text above to the documentation would be even more clear and explicit -- clear and explicit instructions are always better than hidden and implicit instructions.

Many thanks for the investigation.

Puneet.