Force JSON Response in CakePHP

Question

I've created routes shown below:

Router::connect('/:api/:controller/:action/*', array(), array('api'=>'api'));
Router::connect('/:api/:controller', array('action' => 'index'), array('api'=>'api'));
Router::connect('/:api/', array('controller' => 'index', 'action' => 'index'), array('api'=>'api'));

Basically, I want all requests made through a particular endpoint to respond in JSON. In the case above all requests made with the api prefix. For example:

http://localhost/api/products

Should return a JSON response instead of an HTML. Note that it should work that way even without the .json extension being defined.

possible duplicate of Cakephp REST API remove the necessity of .format — ndm
– ndm, Commented Oct 18, 2013 at 9:21

Alex Stallen · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-18 11:42:01Z

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So I am guessing in your controller you check if the api prefix was set and if so you serialize the data you give back to the view? if so then just add:

$this->RequestHandler->renderAs($this, 'json');

answered Oct 18, 2013 at 11:42

Alex Stallen

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