Devise: Default/preffered way to teach Devise to respond to JSON?

[bikezilla]

Hi,

I had an issue with my angular + rails app, where after upgrading to rails 4.2 Devise stopped responding to JSON.

After some research/debugging I have fixed that by adding

config.navigational_formats = ['*/*', :html, :json]

in initializers/devise.rb

However, I have seen many blog posts / SO answers and none mentions this approach. People recommend vairous things such as:

config.to_prepare do
  DeviseController.respond_to :html, :json
end

or

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController  
    respond_to :json
end  

and the like.

Questions:

1. What is the preffered way to teach Devise to respond to JSON?
2. Do you think it's a good idea to add this to the readme (it's quite popular these days). If yes I could sign up to contribute it.

[josevalim]

Your code is not teaching Devise how to handle JSON. In fact, it is sending
the wrong information because JSON is not a navigational format.

_José Valim_
www.plataformatec.com.br
Skype: jv.ptec
Founder and Lead Developer

[josevalim]

The two mentioned solutions are fine, but you can simply call respond_to in your application controller. In any case, please use the mailing list or StackOverflow for questions/help, where a wider community will be able to help you. We reserve the issues tracker for issues only.

[bikezilla]

Yep, I realized my mistake shortly after. Thanks anyways!

[ratneshnavlakhe]

What is the solution, facing the same issue...

[aruprakshit]

this blogpost worked for me.

[sonianand11]

@bikezilla This blog works for me