Hi there, I'm trying out OX.

A bit of context: until now I've used Dancer. I want to try OX and see how I like it. I have read the whole OX advent calendar 2012 and understood most of it (I'm not very familiar with Bread::Board yet).

I have a RESTful API, and I'm trying to do something a bit similar to Dancer::Plugin::REST: send something different to clients depending on the format requested. More specifically I want to send JSON back on /api/action.json, YAML on /api/action.yaml, or a prettified JSON in a HTML template on /api/action.

So far my idea is to match all those with a single route. In Dancer I would do:
/api/action.:format
And then my View object would render something that depends on the request's path: that's dead simple with OX.

My problem is that the /api/action.:format route doesn't seem to match anything. Indeed, I don't see anything similar in the Path::Router documentation, which OX is based on. Does it mean it's impossible to do what I want with OX? OX seems powerful, so I guess not.

What could be a solution to my problem?

In reply to OX and routing: how to declare something like /api/action.:format by mascip

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