Class: ActionDispatch::Response

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Includes:
Http::Cache::Response, Http::FilterRedirect, MonitorMixin, Rack::Response::Helpers
Defined in:
lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb

Overview

Represents an HTTP response generated by a controller action. Use it to retrieve the current state of the response, or customize the response. It can either represent a real HTTP response (i.e. one that is meant to be sent back to the web browser) or a TestResponse (i.e. one that is generated from integration tests).

Response is mostly a Ruby on Rails framework implementation detail, and should never be used directly in controllers. Controllers should use the methods defined in ActionController::Base instead. For example, if you want to set the HTTP response’s content MIME type, then use ActionControllerBase#headers instead of Response#headers.

Nevertheless, integration tests may want to inspect controller responses in more detail, and that’s when Response can be useful for application developers. Integration test methods such as ActionDispatch::Integration::Session#get and ActionDispatch::Integration::Session#post return objects of type TestResponse (which are of course also of type Response).

For example, the following demo integration test prints the body of the controller response to the console:

class DemoControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
  def test_print_root_path_to_console
    get('/')
    puts response.body
  end
end

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: Buffer, RackBody

Constant Summary collapse

CONTENT_TYPE = 
"Content-Type".freeze

"Set-Cookie".freeze
LOCATION = 
"Location".freeze
NO_CONTENT_CODES = 
[204, 304]
EMPTY = 
" "

Constants included from Http::FilterRedirect

Http::FilterRedirect::FILTERED

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Attributes included from Http::Cache::Response

#cache_control, #etag

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods included from Http::Cache::Response

#date, #date=, #date?, #last_modified, #last_modified=, #last_modified?

Methods included from Http::FilterRedirect

#filtered_location

Constructor Details

#initialize(status = 200, header = {}, body = []) {|_self| ... } ⇒ Response

Returns a new instance of Response.

Yields:

  • (_self)

Yield Parameters:



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 118

def initialize(status = 200, header = {}, body = [])
  super()

  header = merge_default_headers(header, self.class.default_headers)

  self.body, self.header, self.status = body, header, status

  @sending_file = false
  @blank        = false
  @cv           = new_cond
  @committed    = false
  @sending      = false
  @sent         = false
  @content_type = nil
  @charset      = nil

  if content_type = self[CONTENT_TYPE]
    type, charset = content_type.split(/;\s*charset=/)
    @content_type = Mime::Type.lookup(type)
    @charset = charset || self.class.default_charset
  end

  prepare_cache_control!

  yield self if block_given?
end

Instance Attribute Details

#charset ⇒ Object

The charset of the response. HTML wants to know the encoding of the content you’re giving them, so we need to send that along.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 66

def charset
  @charset
end

#content_type ⇒ Object

Sets the HTTP response’s content MIME type. For example, in the controller you could write this:

response.content_type = "text/plain"

If a character set has been defined for this response (see charset=) then the character set information will also be included in the content type information.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 62

def content_type
  @content_type
end

#header ⇒ Object Also known as: headers

Get and set headers for this response.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 46

def header
  @header
end

#request ⇒ Object

The request that the response is responding to.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 38

def request
  @request
end

#sending_file=(value) ⇒ Object (writeonly)

Sets the attribute sending_file

Parameters:

  • value —

    the value to set the attribute sending_file to.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 43

def sending_file=(value)
  @sending_file = value
end

#status ⇒ Object

The HTTP status code.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 41

def status
  @status
end

#stream ⇒ Object (readonly)

The underlying body, as a streamable object.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 116

def stream
  @stream
end

Instance Method Details

#abort ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 267

def abort
  if stream.respond_to?(:abort)
    stream.abort
  elsif stream.respond_to?(:close)
    # `stream.close` should really be reserved for a close from the
    # other direction, but we must fall back to it for
    # compatibility.
    stream.close
  end
end

#await_commit ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 145

def await_commit
  synchronize do
    @cv.wait_until { @committed }
  end
end

#await_sent ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 151

def await_sent
  synchronize { @cv.wait_until { @sent } }
end

#body ⇒ Object

Returns the content of the response as a string. This contains the contents of any calls to render.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 217

def body
  strings = []
  each { |part| strings << part.to_s }
  strings.join
end

#body=(body) ⇒ Object

Allows you to manually set or override the response body.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 226

def body=(body)
  @blank = true if body == EMPTY

  if body.respond_to?(:to_path)
    @stream = body
  else
    synchronize do
      @stream = build_buffer self, munge_body_object(body)
    end
  end
end

#body_parts ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 238

def body_parts
  parts = []
  @stream.each { |x| parts << x }
  parts
end

#close ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 263

def close
  stream.close if stream.respond_to?(:close)
end

#code ⇒ Object

Returns a string to ensure compatibility with Net::HTTPResponse.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 198

def code
  @status.to_s
end

#commit! ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 155

def commit!
  synchronize do
    before_committed
    @committed = true
    @cv.broadcast
  end
end

#committed? ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 179

def committed?; synchronize { @committed }; end

#cookies ⇒ Object

Returns the response cookies, converted to a Hash of (name => value) pairs

assert_equal 'AuthorOfNewPage', r.cookies['author']



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 304

def cookies
  cookies = {}
  if header = self[SET_COOKIE]
    header = header.split("\n") if header.respond_to?(:to_str)
    header.each do |cookie|
      if pair = cookie.split(';').first
        key, value = pair.split("=").map { |v| Rack::Utils.unescape(v) }
        cookies[key] = value
      end
    end
  end
  cookies
end

#delete_cookie(key, value = {}) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 248

def delete_cookie(key, value={})
  ::Rack::Utils.delete_cookie_header!(header, key, value)
end

#location ⇒ Object Also known as: redirect_url

The location header we’ll be responding with.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 253

def location
  headers[LOCATION]
end

#location=(url) ⇒ Object

Sets the location header we’ll be responding with.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 259

def location=(url)
  headers[LOCATION] = url
end

#message ⇒ Object Also known as: status_message

Returns the corresponding message for the current HTTP status code:

response.status = 200
response.message # => "OK"

response.status = 404
response.message # => "Not Found"



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 210

def message
  Rack::Utils::HTTP_STATUS_CODES[@status]
end

#response_code ⇒ Object

The response code of the request.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 193

def response_code
  @status
end

#sending! ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 163

def sending!
  synchronize do
    before_sending
    @sending = true
    @cv.broadcast
  end
end

#sending? ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 178

def sending?;   synchronize { @sending };   end

#sent! ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 171

def sent!
  synchronize do
    @sent = true
    @cv.broadcast
  end
end

#sent? ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 180

def sent?;      synchronize { @sent };      end

#set_cookie(key, value) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 244

def set_cookie(key, value)
  ::Rack::Utils.set_cookie_header!(header, key, value)
end

#to_a ⇒ Object Also known as: prepare!

Turns the Response into a Rack-compatible array of the status, headers, and body. Allows explict splatting:

status, headers, body = *response



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 282

def to_a
  rack_response @status, @header.to_hash
end

#to_ary ⇒ Object

Be super clear that a response object is not an Array. Defining this would make implicit splatting work, but it also makes adding responses as arrays work, and “flattening” responses, cascading to the rack body! Not sensible behavior.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb', line 291

def to_ary
  ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn("    `ActionDispatch::Response#to_ary` no longer performs implicit conversion\n    to an array. Please use `response.to_a` instead, or a splat like `status,\n    headers, body = *response`.\n  MSG\n\n  to_a\nend\n".squish)