Question

The examples I see are suggesting the use like this:

$response = new Response();
echo $response->body($view)->send_headers()->body();

But if I have the following code

$response = new Response();
$response->headers('Content-Type', 'application/json');
echo $response->body($view)->send_headers()->body();

it sends the output allright, but it is in HTML format, not JSON.

Whats the valid way to send a new Response along with headers then? I am using Kohana 3.1 with php 5.3

Edit:

Before you start thinking what a fool I am for not using $this->response->body(<blah here>);, let me clarify that I know how to use the controller’s response object… That is not what I am looking for… I want to send a response entirely from a static function that is not anywhere near a controller in the function call stack 🙂

Answer 1

OK, after scratching my head and attempting many solutions, I decided to use this:

Request::initial()->response()
->body($view)
->headers('Content-type','application/json');


Works from anywhere unless you write exit somewhere in the flow.