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module Rack

  # A Rack middleware for providing JSON-P support.
  # 
  # Full credit to Flinn Mueller (http://actsasflinn.com/) for this contribution.
  # 
  class JSONP
  
    def initialize(app)
      @app = app
    end
  
    # Proxies the request to the application, stripping out the JSON-P callback
    # method and padding the response with the appropriate callback format.
    # 
    # Changes nothing if no <tt>callback</tt> param is specified.
    # 
    def call(env)
      # remove the callback and _ parameters BEFORE calling the backend, 
      # so that caching middleware does not store a copy for each value of the callback parameter
      request = Rack::Request.new(env)
      callback = request.params.delete('callback')
      env['QUERY_STRING'] = env['QUERY_STRING'].split("&").delete_if{|param| param =~ /^(_|callback)/}.join("&")
      
      status, headers, response = @app.call(env)
      if callback
        response = pad(callback, response)
        headers['Content-Length'] = response.length.to_s
      end
      [status, headers, response]
    end
  
    # Pads the response with the appropriate callback format according to the
    # JSON-P spec/requirements.
    # 
    # The Rack response spec indicates that it should be enumerable. The method
    # of combining all of the data into a single string makes sense since JSON
    # is returned as a full string.
    # 
    def pad(callback, response, body = "")
      response.each{ |s| body << s }
      "#{callback}(#{body})"
    end
  
  end
end

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
cryx-g5k-0.2.10	lib/g5k/rack/jsonp.rb
cryx-g5k-0.2.9	lib/g5k/rack/jsonp.rb