Should be fixed when dwyl/hits#157 is resolved… 🙄

Phoenix can already implicitly render different responses based off the Accept header or through forcing a type through the put_accept plug.

def index(conn, _params) do
  doors = Access.list_doors()
  render(conn, :index, doors: doors)
end

Will render "index.json" or "index.html" implicitly.

See https://gist.github.com/chrismccord/31340f08d62de1457454.

In the Phoenix Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.Controller.html#render/3

Specifically;

template - which may be an atom or a string. If an atom, like :index, it will render a template with the same format as the one returned by get_format/1. For example, for an HTML request, it will render the "index.html" template. If the template is a string, it must contain the extension too, like "index.json"

Create a file with the following path: .github/dependabot.yml

With the following contents:

version: 2
updates:
- package-ecosystem: mix
  directory: "/"
  schedule:
    interval: daily
    time: "07:00"
    timezone: Europe/London

Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/keeping-your-actions-up-to-date-with-dependabot

see: https://github.com/dwyl/fields/tree/main/.github

Following the instructions in the readme file, I was faced with this error (CompileError) undefined function browser/2 (expected HitsWeb.Router to define such a function or for it to be imported, but none are available) when adding the content plug to the router pipeline.

The error could be obvious to some but as someone who is starting out, it's not clear in the README that one has to also change the pipe_through to pipe_through(:any) in the scope method inside therouter.ex file as well.

I can create a PR with this small change to be more clear to a newbie audience 😄 .

As a person using the @dwyl App who also wants to build my own custom interface,
I want to be able to append .json to any URL in the App
and see a JSON representation of the content (data)
without having to manually construct an API request.
i.e. use the existing session/JWT and return the data for the given (logged in) person.

Reddit does this for most of their URLs. e.g: reddit.com/r/politics/comments/gpuwml/trump_rips_columbia_as_disgraceful_institution

But appending the .json to the end of the URL:
reddit.com/r/politics/comments/gpuwml/trump_rips_columbia_as_disgraceful_institution/.json

Todo

• add accept=json Header if the url contains ".json"
• Demo it in the tutorial: https://github.com/dwyl/phoenix-content-negotiation-tutorial#part-2

http=>https

We have show that content negotiation is fairly straightforward in a Phoenix App in our tutorial: https://github.com/dwyl/phoenix-content-negotiation-tutorial
but our conclusion is that it's quite cumbersome.

We need a simplified way of doing content negotiation in our App(s)
whereby we only add one line to the router.ex and one line to each controller.

I think it's possible, but I don't know for sure. 💭
I would prefer to avoid including Phoenix as a Dependency ... because of maintenance and RAM.
So this issue is a "SPIKE" to:

• explore how to do content negotiation in a reusable plug.

warning: use Mix.Config is deprecated. Use the Config module instead
  config/config.exs:1

Lame.

• Fix it