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. > > I wrote something similar and shared it with the list > but there didn't seem to be much interest. I've > attached what I did for you to check out. Maybe if > this kind of this is useful to you we can work > together to fix it up and write some tests and release > it as a real module. Let me know if you have time for > that. > > I kind of wanted this to be more than just an action > to match on the method type, I was hoping to have it > automatically in/deflate the request body to something > like XML::Simple or other XML object to make it easier > to build true RESTful apps. If would be cool if > (something like) I think there is considerable overlap in what we are trying to achieve. Unfortunately I don't think I have the time available right now to partake in an ongoing dialogue. I.e., I'd just slow you down at this point. cheers, Garrett _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
