Module content_negotiation

The content_negotiation module deals with handling media types, languages, charsets and encodings as per https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html.

Structs

Charset

Struct to represent a character set

Encoding

Struct to represent an encoding

MediaLanguage

Struct to represent a media language

MediaType

Struct to represent a media type

Enums

MediaTypeMatch

Enum to represent a match with media types

Functions

acceptable_content_type

Determines if the media type accepted by the resource matches the media type provided by the client. Returns the match if there is one.

matching_charset

Determines if the charsets produced by the resource matches the acceptable charsets provided by the client. Returns the match if there is one.

matching_content_type

Determines if the media types produced by the resource matches the acceptable media types provided by the client. Returns the match if there is one.

matching_encoding

Determines if the encodings supported by the resource matches the acceptable encodings provided by the client. Returns the match if there is one.

matching_language

Determines if the languages produced by the resource matches the acceptable languages provided by the client. Returns the match if there is one.

sort_encodings

Sorts the list of encodings by weighting as per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.3. Note that identity encoding is awlays added with a weight of 1 if not already present.

sort_media_charsets

Sorts the list of charsets by weighting as per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.2. Note that ISO-8859-1 is added as a default with a weighting of 1 if not all ready supplied.

sort_media_languages

Sorts the list of media types by weighting

sort_media_types

Sorts the list of media types by their weights