Class: ActionController::Response

Inherits:
Rack::Response
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/action_controller/response.rb

Overview

Represents an HTTP response generated by a controller action. One can use an ActionController::Response object to retrieve the current state of the response, or customize the response. An Response object can either represent a “real” HTTP response (i.e. one that is meant to be sent back to the web browser) or a test response (i.e. one that is generated from integration tests). See CgiResponse and TestResponse, respectively.

Response is mostly a Ruby on Rails framework implement detail, and should never be used directly in controllers. Controllers should use the methods defined in ActionController::Base instead. For example, if you want to set the HTTP response’s content MIME type, then use ActionControllerBase#headers instead of Response#headers.

Nevertheless, integration tests may want to inspect controller responses in more detail, and that’s when Response can be useful for application developers. Integration test methods such as ActionController::Integration::Session#get and ActionController::Integration::Session#post return objects of type TestResponse (which are of course also of type Response).

For example, the following demo integration “test” prints the body of the controller response to the console:

class DemoControllerTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest
  def test_print_root_path_to_console
    get('/')
    puts @response.body
  end
end

Direct Known Subclasses

TestResponse

Constant Summary collapse

DEFAULT_HEADERS = 
{ "Cache-Control" => "no-cache" }

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize ⇒ Response

Returns a new instance of Response.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 42

def initialize
  @status = 200
  @header = Rack::Utils::HeaderHash.new(DEFAULT_HEADERS)

  @writer = lambda { |x| @body << x }
  @block = nil

  @body = "",
  @session = []
  @assigns = []
end

Instance Attribute Details

#assigns ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute assigns.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 37

def assigns
  @assigns
end

#layout ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute layout.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 37

def layout
  @layout
end

#redirected_to ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute redirected_to.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 38

def redirected_to
  @redirected_to
end

#redirected_to_method_params ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute redirected_to_method_params.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 38

def redirected_to_method_params
  @redirected_to_method_params
end

#request ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute request.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 35

def request
  @request
end

#session ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute session.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 37

def session
  @session
end

#template ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute template.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 37

def template
  @template
end

Instance Method Details

#assign_default_content_type_and_charset! ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 133

def assign_default_content_type_and_charset!
  self.content_type ||= Mime::HTML
  self.charset ||= default_charset unless sending_file?
end

#charset ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 92

def charset
  charset = String(headers["Content-Type"] || headers["type"]).split(";")[1]
  charset.blank? ? nil : charset.strip.split("=")[1]
end

#charset=(charset) ⇒ Object

Set the charset of the Content-Type header. Set to nil to remove it. If no content type is set, it defaults to HTML.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 83

def charset=(charset)
  headers["Content-Type"] =
    if charset
      "#{content_type || Mime::HTML}; charset=#{charset}"
    else
      content_type || Mime::HTML.to_s
    end
end

#content_type ⇒ Object

Returns the response’s content MIME type, or nil if content type has been set.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 76

def content_type
  content_type = String(headers["Content-Type"] || headers["type"]).split(";")[0]
  content_type.blank? ? nil : content_type
end

#content_type=(mime_type) ⇒ Object

Sets the HTTP response’s content MIME type. For example, in the controller you could write this:

response.content_type = "text/plain"

If a character set has been defined for this response (see charset=) then the character set information will also be included in the content type information.



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 66

def content_type=(mime_type)
  self.headers["Content-Type"] =
    if mime_type =~ /charset/ || (c = charset).nil?
      mime_type.to_s
    else
      "#{mime_type}; charset=#{c}"
    end
end

#each(&callback) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 147

def each(&callback)
  if @body.respond_to?(:call)
    @writer = lambda { |x| callback.call(x) }
    @body.call(self, self)
  elsif @body.respond_to?(:to_str)
    yield @body
  else
    @body.each(&callback)
  end

  @writer = callback
  @block.call(self) if @block
end

#etag ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 111

def etag
  headers['ETag']
end

#etag=(etag) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 119

def etag=(etag)
  headers['ETag'] = %("#{Digest::MD5.hexdigest(ActiveSupport::Cache.expand_cache_key(etag))}")
end

#etag? ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 115

def etag?
  headers.include?('ETag')
end

#flush ⇒ Object

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 166

def flush #:nodoc:
  ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn(
    'Calling output.flush is no longer needed for streaming output ' +
    'because ActionController::Response automatically handles it', caller)
end

#last_modified ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 97

def last_modified
  if last = headers['Last-Modified']
    Time.httpdate(last)
  end
end

#last_modified=(utc_time) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 107

def last_modified=(utc_time)
  headers['Last-Modified'] = utc_time.httpdate
end

#last_modified? ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 103

def last_modified?
  headers.include?('Last-Modified')
end

#location ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 54

def location; headers['Location'] end

#location=(url) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 55

def location=(url) headers['Location'] = url end

#prepare! ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 138

def prepare!
  assign_default_content_type_and_charset!
  handle_conditional_get!
  set_content_length!
  convert_content_type!
  convert_language!
  convert_cookies!
end

#redirect(url, status) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 123

def redirect(url, status)
  self.status = status
  self.location = url.gsub(/[\r\n]/, '')
  self.body = "<html><body>You are being <a href=\"#{CGI.escapeHTML(url)}\">redirected</a>.</body></html>"
end

#sending_file? ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 129

def sending_file?
  headers["Content-Transfer-Encoding"] == "binary"
end

#set_cookie(key, value) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 172

def set_cookie(key, value)
  if value.has_key?(:http_only)
    ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn(
      "The :http_only option in ActionController::Response#set_cookie " +
      "has been renamed. Please use :httponly instead.", caller)
    value[:httponly] ||= value.delete(:http_only)
  end

  super(key, value)
end

#write(str) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_controller/response.rb', line 161

def write(str)
  @writer.call str.to_s
  str
end