Symfony2 + FOSRestBundle: Enable/disable REST functionality per controller/action?

fosrestbundle, fosuserbundle, rest, symfony

Solution

According to the RestBundle's documentation, you won't get an XML output if you don't use a `View` in your controller. So, if you don't use the `@View` annotation, or a `View::create()` in your action, and you return a classic response, you will get a HTML output.

If you want to force the format for some reasons, you can turn the `prefer_extension` to `true` and adjust the routing definition:

my_route:
    pattern:  /my-route
    defaults: { _controller: AcmeDemoBundle:action, _format: <format> }

Where `<format>` is the format you want to force.

Problem

A part of my application will be available as an API, so some of my pages needs to be available in JSON or XML (based on the Accept header 'Content Type'). I've used the FOSRestBundle and it works very well, but now ALL my pages are available in XML (or JSON) when sending Accept header 'Content Type: application/xml'. So, I would like to enable/disable this functionality for some of my controllers/actions. I would be ideal to do this using annotations. Is that possible? My config.yml: ``` fos_rest: view: formats: rss: false xml: true json: true templating_formats: html: true force_redirects: html: false failed_validation: HTTP_BAD_REQUEST default_engine: twig view_response_listener: force body_listener: decoders: json: acme.decoder.json xml: fos_rest.decoder.xml format_listener: default_priorities: ['html', 'xml', 'json', '*/*'] fallback_format: html prefer_extension: false ```

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