Hi there, I have a controller with an action that renders some html. Now I want to extend that action to render some json when the content type is application/json* I was hoping I could use pattern matching to achieve this, but this does not work (the html action always gets executed): def inde…

Another option you have is to define a render function for both an index.html and an index.json and then just pass the action’s atom to the render function in your controller. In other words instead of having render(conn, "index.html"...), you’ll have render(conn, :index...). Here’s an example from …

Phoenix Controller: Matching on content-type

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kokolegorille February 9, 2020, 6:31pm 5

Maybe this post can help too. It allows to use suffix for routes.

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