Garrett Goebel wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:08 AM, John Napiorkowski wrote:
>
>> -- Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sure this is too late to be useful. But here is
>>> my subclassed
>>> Catalyst::Action to implemented RESTful request
>>> method based
>>> dispatching. [I've been working on this in my free
>>> time. Which I have
>>> precious little of lately. My apologies.]
>>>
>>> The references to $c->request->path_parameters are
>>> to support RoR
>>> style processing of urls (foo.com/person;create)
>>> where
>>> Catalyst::Dispatcher->perpare_action is overridden
>>> to match url paths
>>> separate from path parameters and file extensions.
>>>
>>> I also override Catalyst::Dispatcher->setup_actions
>>> to change the
>>> default method_action_class to my subclass of
>>> Catalyst::Action. I was
>>> surprised that default method_action_class and
>>> action_container_class
>>> appear to be hard coded...
>>>
>> [snipped content]
>>
>> You can do this more easily as a Action Class, (see
>> http://search.cpan.org/~mramberg/Catalyst-Runtime-5.7003/lib/
>> Catalyst/Manual/Actions.pod
>> for some documentation). This was released with
>> Catalyst 5.7x and easy to miss if you don't have time
>> to watch the mailing list closely.
>
> I don't really like :ActionClass. I'd rather my action method
> attributes declare what they match... not how.
You can handle this by adding a _parse_Foo_attr method to a controller base
class - c.f. how _parse_Local_attr converts :Local to the equivalent :Path
declaration (Catalyst::Base).
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