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`AbstractController::Rendering#rendered_format` is never overwritten

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rails, ruby
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start with lib/jsonapi/resource_controller_metal.rb, where AbstractController::Rendering is included, and trace how rendered_format is determined for a response. Confirm the current behavior and identify the relevant existing tests or response path; done means the reported format reflects the actual rendered response instead of always being text.

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Description

AbstractController::Rendering#rendered_format is never overwritten and thus will always return "text".

AbstractController::Rendering is included here: https://github.com/cerebris/jsonapi-resources/blob/e53a32daa4bde4c2e2120d1abf55644a9a060f23/lib/jsonapi/resource_controller_metal.rb#L4, but I don't see rendered_format ever overwritten.

This is causing the type to report incorrectly in Skylight: https://github.com/skylightio/skylight-ruby/issues/112.

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