[FLOW3-general] Ajaxable Actions / JSON as content-type

[Ferdinand Kuhl]

Hi David,

just add the following two lines to your controller:

protected $supportedFormats = array("html", "json");
protected $viewFormatToObjectNameMap = array(
	"json" => "\TYPO3\FLOW3\MVC\View\JsonView", 
	"html" => "\TYPO3\Fluid\View\TemplateView"
);

And have a look at the really well documented JsonView-Class. (You can 
configure the depth the objects are rendered)

The controller automatically detects what the request accepts, so if your 
ajax-call (for example per jquery) explicitly asks for json, your controller 
will answer with json.

Have a nice sunday,
Ferdinand

David Schoen wrote:

> Hello List,
> 
> can anyone tell me how to make an action ajaxable? I would like to call
> an action with an JSON-request and would like to get the answer in JSON
> so I would have to change the content-type.
> 
> Here is what I imagine:
> 
> /**
> * Returns some json-object
> * @someAnnotationToSetTheReturnTypeToJSON
> * @return void
> */
> public function jsonAction() {
> ...
> return <someJsonObject>;
> }
> 
> I can't find anything about that in the documentation or the
> blog-example. If you have any clue, tip or link, please answer :)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> David