Accepts Helper

Accepts Helper helps to handle Accept headers in the Requests.

Import

import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { accepts } from 'hono/accepts'

accepts()

The accepts() function looks at the Accept header, such as Accept-Encoding and Accept-Language, and returns the proper value.

import { accepts } from 'hono/accepts'

app.get('/', (c) => {
  const accept = accepts(c, {
    header: 'Accept-Language',
    supports: ['en', 'ja', 'zh'],
    default: 'en',
  })
  return c.json({ lang: accept })
})

AcceptHeader type

The definition of the AcceptHeader type is as follows.

export type AcceptHeader =
  | 'Accept'
  | 'Accept-Charset'
  | 'Accept-Encoding'
  | 'Accept-Language'
  | 'Accept-Patch'
  | 'Accept-Post'
  | 'Accept-Ranges'

Options

required header: AcceptHeader

The target accept header.

required supports: string[]

The header values which your application supports.

required default: string

The default values.

optional match: (accepts: Accept[], config: acceptsConfig) => string

The custom match function.