Hi,
I'm building a web service that will be accessed from a phone.
So what I'm seeing so far is that building json responses seems to be
quite limited (but I think I'm just missing something)
Lets say I have users, and they can have different amounts of types of
debt. In this case the debt is calculated based on a couple of
different things. So in order to calculate debt I need to do some
things.
I also might want to return a status message (success/failure) with
each json resonse
I know I can do something like:
render format.json { :json => {:success => true, :user =>
@user.as_json } }
I can also overwrite as_json in the user model to customize the
output. I want to have more options than that thouse, since overwrite
as_json is kind of global. I'm imagining having specialized functions
that will return json that has a very different structure than the
model itself.
render format.json { :json => {:success => true, :user =>
@user.json_for_dropdown } }
render format.json { :json => {:success => true, :user =>
@user.json_for_invoice } }
Is this possible? How do I write json_for_X to return json etc? Is
there a better way to do this? Are there templates that can be used
for json like rendering partials?
Thanks
Joe
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