I am trying to figure out how DC works and I kept looking at the code in
rabbit.rb and server.rb. I had hard time in the last couple of days
figuring out what the following code does and how it does it. Please shed
some lights. thanks.
here are the code that I could not get a handle of.
control do
driver.destroy_storage_snapshot(credentials, params)
respond_to do |format|
format.xml { return 204 }
format.json { return 204 }
format.html { return redirect(storage_snapshots_url) }
end
end
def respond_to(&block)
wants = {}
def wants.method_missing(type, *args, &handler)
self[type] = handler
end
# Set proper content-type and encoding for
# text based formats
puts format.inspect
if [:xml, :gv, :html, :json].include?(format)
content_type format, :charset => 'utf-8'
end
yield wants
# Raise this error if requested format is not defined
# in respond_to { } block.
raise MissingTemplate if wants[format].nil?
wants[format].call
end
control block gets called when a request is received, then it calls
respond_to method. respond_to method sets the variable "wants" to be an
empty hash first, then yield to the code
format.xml { return 204 }
format.json { return 204 }
format.html { return redirect(storage_snapshots_url) }
What puzzled me is how that hash gets member of xml, json and html, and
where and how each member was set up as a proc or method?
I've also wrote a piece of code which tries to add a new URL
like /api/john, here is my test code.
collection :john do
description <<EOS
whatever this is just a test
EOS
operation :index do
description "list whatever"
control do
puts "came here anyway"
response.status = 200 # OK
end
end
end
However, the code does not seem get executed when request
(http://localhost:3001/api/john) was received. The browser will always
return 404 error, it seems to me that I am missing some of the fundamentals
of rabbit, please point out what I did wrong or missed.
Thanks a lot.
