I have several scripts (Groovy and Velocity) that generate output that should not be rendered as a Wiki page. This is necessary, for example, when rendering JSON. As documented before (http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Output+JSON) , it's possible to allow such content by including request parameters xpage=plain and outputSyntax=plain. However, this approach requires all pages that refer to the script to remember to include these parameters, which is rather error prone. Is there a way for a script to explicitly disable rendering instead?

I wrote: Vincent replied: OK, so trying both options with a content body {{velocity output="false" wiki="false"}} $response.setContentType('application/json') { "greeting" : "Hello", "location": "World" } {{/velocity}} I get a document of Content-Script-Type text/javascript but with a 38KB file of HTML containing the usual Wiki page content, which I'd like to avoid. I think if I explicitly set xpage=plain in the request then the template skips rendering this stuff, but what I was wondering was whether I could set this from within my script instead.

{{velocity}} #if("$!{request.xpage}" != 'plain')   $response.sendRedirect($doc.getURL('view', 'xpage=plain')) #else   Hello world! #end {{/velocity}}

loses any query parameters that I'd passed to the page to use in the script. This is just an example, you can of course keep the query parameters passed :) You have them in $request.queryString.