NAME Dancer::Plugin::Res - Syntax sugar for setting the status and returning a response VERSION version 0.0002 SYNOPSIS use Dancer; use Dancer::Plugin::Res; post '/widgets' => sub { return res 400 => to_json { err => 'name is required' } unless param 'name'; # ... return res 201 => to_json { widget => $widget }; }; dance; DESCRIPTION This Dancer plugin provides the keyword "res()", which stands for response. It allows you to set the response and return a body in one shot. return res 400, { msg => reason }; is equivalent to: status 400; return { msg => reason }; I made this plugin because I wanted a function like send_error() for ReST applications that return things like json instead of html. "send_error "reason ...", 500" will not always render the first argument you give it in the response. When your app is running in production mode, it will attempt to render a generic 500.html page. Which is great for front-end things, but not for back-end code where you always want your application to render the thing that you told it to render. AUTHOR Naveed Massjouni COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Naveed Massjouni. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.