[Dancer-users] alternate routes based on where the query is coming from

[sawyer x]

Franck is putting a lot of work into the hooks right now. When those are
done, you should be able to use a hook to do it.

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

> now that I have the following working (thanks Matt Vickers)
>
> % curl 'http://dm.local/dm.json?var=prcp&from=1980-1-1&to=1980-2-2'
>
> I get back
>
> {"prcp": [0, 1, 2, 1, 0 ... lots of elements .. ]}
>
> Except, these values need to be post-processed before display/use. Because
> I get back so many values, I do the transfer as above, and then post process
> them in the user's browser using JavaScript.
>
> $.ajax({
> url : "/dm.json?var=" + v + "&from=" + from + "&to=" + to,
> type : "GET",
> data : "",
> dataType: "json",
> error : function() { alert("Error loading html document"); },
> success : function(d) {
> var dt = d[v];
> var data = [];
> for (var i = 0; i < dt.length; i++) {
> data.push( post_process(dt[i] );
> }
> ..
> display( data );
> }
> });
>
> Of course, I don't have recourse to JavaScript with curl, so I need to
> "post process" the data *before* it gets to the user, that is, I need to do
> it on the server side. Of course, I could do this with two different routes,
> one for via the browser, and the other via curl. But, surely, Dancer has
> some way more elegant pas de deux that can do this, no?
>
> Come to think of it, pas de deux would be a nice name for a Dancer plugin.
>
>
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