method

content_type

v1.1.6 - Show latest stable - Class: ActionController::AbstractRequest

content_type()

public

Determine whether the body of a HTTP call is URL-encoded (default) or matches one of the registered param_parsers.

For backward compatibility, the post format is extracted from the X-Post-Data-Format HTTP header if present.

# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/request.rb, line 51
    def content_type
      @content_type ||=
        begin
          content_type = @env['CONTENT_TYPE'].to_s.downcase
          
          if x_post_format = @env['HTTP_X_POST_DATA_FORMAT']
            case x_post_format.to_s.downcase
            when 'yaml'
              content_type = 'application/x-yaml'
            when 'xml'
              content_type = 'application/xml'
            end
          end
          
          Mime::Type.lookup(content_type)
        end
    end

content_type

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