Allow response type to be conditional based on path

[petewalker]

In our application, we have a mix of JSON API endpoints and HTML pages.

All of our API endpoints are prefixed with the path /api.

It would be good if we could conditionally return a JSON response for our /api endpoints and a HTML response for all others.

Is it possible to make this configurable? In the interim as workaround, I guess we could subclass your middleware?

[fabiocaccamo]

@petewalker thank you for suggesting this feature, I think it could be useful to many people (me included).

[fabiocaccamo]

@petewalker I would implement this feature by allowing settings.MAINTENANCE_MODE_RESPONSE_TYPE to accept a path to a callable that will be called passing the request as argument, and it should return "html" or "json".

What you think about it? Do you have any suggestion?

[petewalker]

That seems like a good first pass to me!

[violuke]

This would be very helpful for us too 🙏