producers.md

Content types and producers

There are three ways to generate content in Frontik application:

• Generic producer (self.text)
• XML producer (with XSLT as templating engine)
• JSON producer (with Jinja2 as templating engine)

You can use any properly configured producer in your handlers, though using more than one is probably a bad idea. In the latter case generic producer has the highest and JSON producer has the lowest priority.

The output of producers is then passed to a chain of template postprocessors (see Postprocessing.