Imagine you have a set of actions that match the same request. Maybe they have the same :Path, or maybe you're using Catalyst::ActionRole::MatchRequestMethod or something similar, and you do:
sub post_foo :Path('foo') Method('POST') { }
sub other_foo :Path('foo') { }
intending for the 'other_foo' action to be invoked when the method is
not POST.
This will sometimes work and sometimes not. I have dug a bit in the
source, and it looks like this:
- Catalyst::Controller::register_actions calls
Catalyst::Controller::get_action_methods
- which gets the methods from
MooseX::MethodAttributes::Role::Meta::Class::get_nearest_methods_with_attributes
- which sorts the method it returns in the order they were declared
- register_actions will call register_action_methods which will call
Catalyst::Dispatcher::register for each method in the order they
were received
- the Dispatcher will register the action with every DispatchType that
wants it
- Catalyst::DispatchType::Path sorts actions by
Catalyst::Action::compare, that is, by Args count
- which essentially means that if you have two Path actions for the
same Path, and both match, which one gets called is
implementation-dependent (at the moment, it looks like the last one
declared will win)
Now, this may or may not be a problem. I have a work-around: rework
the controller to have the actions be :Path(''), then use a :Default
action to catch "everything else".
On the other hand, maybe I'm not the only one doing such crazy things
with the dispatcher, and maybe we could add a :Priority($number)
attribute to actions, and have the Catalyst::Action::compare method
use it to break ties.
Did I make any sense?
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