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[Kieren Diment]

On 29/02/2012, at 12:03 AM, Johannes Kilian wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've got following question concerning views: I want to provide an XML-View which provides "standard" XML-Files using XML::Simple in almost any case. Just in some cases I want to provide specialized XML-Files.
> 
> In other words: I want to use XML::Simple as default handler - which is overriden by a specialized XML Generator in some cases ...
> 
> Within my controller I do have something like this:
> ----
> __PACKAGE__->config(
>  'default'   => 'text/html',
>  'stash_key' => 'rest',
>  'map'       => {
>    'text/html' => [ 'View', 'TT', ],
>    'text/xml'  => [ 'View', 'XML', ],
>    #    'text/xml'           => 'XML::Simple',
>  }
> );
> -----
> 
> I cannot figure out how to set XML::Simple as default handler and override this for certain URLs within the same controller whilst for other URLs within the same controller the default XML-Handler is used ....
> 
> Is this possible at all?
> How can I do this?

I'd either use Catalyst::View;:Download::XML, or steal from it to create your own view: https://metacpan.org/module/Catalyst::View::Download::XML