req.accepts()Return whether this request (req) advertises that it understands the specified media type.
If none of the media types are considered acceptable, this returns
false. Otherwise, it returns truthy (the media type).
req.accepts(mediaType);
If a request is sent with an "Accept: application/json" header:
req.accepts('application/json');
// -> 'application/json'
req.accepts('json');
// -> 'json'
req.accepts('image/png');
// -> false
If a request is sent with an "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8" header:
req.accepts('html');
// -> 'html'
req.accepts('text/html');
// -> 'text/html'
req.accepts('json');
// -> false
- The specified media type may be provided as either a MIME type string such as "application/json", or an extension name such as "json".
- This is implemented by examining the request's "Accept" header.
- See the
acceptspackage for the finer details of the header-parsing algorithm used in Sails/Express.
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