You could use request.extension to modify the output accordingly, it default to 'html' and is used to determine the extension of the view file that will render the dictionary.
On Mar 1, 6:18 am, darkblue_b <brian.darkbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > as per the very simple instructions, I wrote a controller function to > return a few items.. > generic.html and generic.xml work, but generic.json and generic.rss > fail > > just learning still, I searched the newsgroup and found > > >Lorin Rivers Jan 13, 2:26 pm > >OK, if I specify which columns get returned in my rows, generic.json returns > >"no json". > >If my function returns rows.as_list(), generic.json works, but my > >generic.csv breaks. > >I figured out this, though, which seems to work, but I don't know if it's > >wise. Also, it >doesn't seem like it should be necessary. > >def function(): > > dbset = db() > > records = dbset.select(db.table.field1, db.table.field2, > > orderby=db.table.field1) > > otherrecords = records.as_list() > >Then in my generic.csv, I use records and in generic.json I use otherrecords. > >-- > > does this apply ? is this a FAQ? > I would like to get to authenticated JSON next > thanks -Brian
