Handling different Hypermedia formats about flask-mongorest HOT 3 OPEN

In case anybody is interested and following this ticket, I've got patches that processes the "Accept" header on the request and can match it against different output formats, pick the correct one and provides the correct content type on the response.

For example, with this code you can say "If I get a request with Accept: application/json", then use this code to generate and render the JSON and return a Content-Type: application/json.

But "If I get a request with Accept: application/hal+json", use different code to formulate the response (dict can be organized differently, which would be required for HAL), render the JSON and return Content-Type: application/hal+json.

Now, you may not care about HAL, but the point is that you can have an API where the clients can request different formats (various JSON serializations, XML, YAML, etc) and you can plug-in code to deal with these requests without having to change your Resource definitions.

I'm trying to put together a pull request, but the changes are involved. :-(

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@xogeny Do you know what the general steps might be to support CSV with content-type application/csv ?

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@pezon Sorry, I've been away from flask-mongorest for a long time. I really don't have any suggestions. Sorry.

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