[Catalyst] implementing ajax

[Ashley]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Jennifer Ahn wrote:
> I'm sure that JSON and all the other goodies are perfect tools for  
> implementing ajax, but i would like to learn what's really going on  
> in teh black box before I use it.
>
> So far, my javascript is able to send an xmlhttprequest to my  
> catalyst controller method which then does some processes and  
> outputs data into an xml document.  i'm having trouble sending that  
> document over to my xmlhttprequest.responseXML object.
> in my controller:
>  my $writer = new XML::LibXML::Document;
>  ... do some process and spit out into an xml document...
>  $c->response->content_type('text/xml');
>  $c->response->write($writer);

I think that should be (or at least would work as)-

   $c->response->content_type('application/xml'); # text/xml is  
deprecated
   $c->response->body($writer->serialize);

-Ashley