Add support for resource-specific mimetypes.
Review Request #2750 — Created Dec. 17, 2011 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded
Add support for resource-specific mimetypes. A common method for REST services is to have payloads returned with resource-specific mimetypes. These can help to identify the format of a payload (useful for automatic bindings) without having to inspect the URI. This adds support for easily telling a resource to return such mimetypes. If mimetype_vendor is specified, WebAPIResource can populate the accepted mimetypes list with some vendor/resource-specific mimetypes that will be used by default for any responses. When there's a vendor mimetype, the resources will use the resource names for the mimetypes, but these can be overridden using mimetype_list_resource_name and mimetype_item_resource_name.
Unit tests pass. Tested with my Review Board change, which thoroughly tests all this functionality. Also verified by hand.