Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: accept-types
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: Determine the best content to send in an HTTP response
Home-page: https://bitbucket.org/tim_heap/python-accept-types
Author: Tim Heap
Author-email: tim@timheap.me
License: UNKNOWN
Description: ========================================================
        accept-types - Use the correct accept type for a request
        ========================================================
        
        ``accept-types`` helps your application respond to a HTTP request in a way that a client prefers.
        The ``Accept`` header of an HTTP request informs the server which MIME types the client is expecting
        back from this request, with weighting to indicate the most prefered. If your server can respond in
        multiple formats (e.g.: JSON, XML, HTML), the client can easily tell your server which is the
        prefered format without resorting to hacks like '&amp;format=json' on the end of query strings.
        
        
        Usage
        =====
        
        ``get_best_match``
        ------------------
        
        When provided with an ``Accept`` header and a list of types your server can respond with, this function
        returns the clients most prefered type. This function will only return one of the acceptable types you
        passed in, or ``None`` if no suitable type was found:
        
        .. code:: python
        
        	from accept_type import get_best_match
        
        	def get_the_info(request):
        		info = gather_info()
        
        		return_type = get_best_match(request.META.get('HTTP_ACCEPT'), ['text/html', 'application/xml', 'text/json'])
        
        		if return_type == 'application/xml':
        			return render_xml(info)
        
        		elif return_type == 'text/json':
        			return render_json(info)
        
        		elif return_type == 'text/html':
        			return render_html(info)
        
        		elif return_type == None:
        			return HttpResponse406()
        
        ``parse_header``
        ----------------
        
        When provided with an ``Accept`` header, this will parse it and return a sorted list of the clients
        accepted mime types. These will be instances of the ``AcceptableType`` class.
        
        .. code:: python
        
        	>>> from accept_type import parse_header
        	>>> parse_header('text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8')
        	['text/html, weight 1', 'application/xhtml+xml, weight 1', 'application/xml, weight 0.9', '*/*, weight 0.8']
        
        ``AcceptableType``
        ------------------
        
        ``AcceptableType`` instances represent one of the types that a client is willing to accept. This
        type could include wildcards, to match more than one MIME type.
        
        .. code:: python
        
        	>>> from accept_type import AcceptableType
        	>>> type = AcceptableType('image/*;q=0.9')
        	AcceptableType
        	>>> type.mime_type
        	'image/*'
        	>>> type.weight
        	0.9
        	>>> type.matches('image/png')
        	True
        	>>> type.matches('text/html')
        	False
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
