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new

You can override this if you like but remember it has to build an object without arguments.

mimeType

Returns the mime type this writer will output.

It is called like this by the framework:

   $this->mimeType($resp) ;

So you can adapt the mime type according to the response to be given.

asBytes

Returns the bytes the framework has to write back to client.

It is called by the framework like this ($resp is a Apache2::REST::Response):

    $this->asBytes($resp) ;