[SOLVED] How do I use Django piston to return a response in text/plain?

How do I use Django piston to return a response in text/plain?

I want to NOT serialize anything. I just want to return what is equivalent to HttpResponse(blah)

Solution

Sounds like you want a string emitter, and not one of the built-in JSONEmitter, XMLEmitter, etc.

Have a look at the docs for emitters: https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Documentation

And the existing emitter definitions here: https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/src/c4b2d21db51a/piston/emitters.py

A definition of a plain text emitter might look like this:

from piston.emitters import Emitter
from piston.utils import Mimer    

class TextEmitter(Emitter):
    def render(self, request):
        return self.construct()
Emitter.register('text', TextEmitter)
Mimer.register('text', None, ('text/plain',))

You'd get your resource to use this emitter in your urls.py like so:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
   url(r'^blogposts$', resource_here, { 'emitter_format': 'text' }),
)