On Jan 3, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Emily Heureux wrote:
(I am starting a brand new email, not replying to an existing one,
which I now realize I have been doing, but maybe not every time. Am
I sending these to the wrong place? The address I have is [email protected]
. Did I do it right this time?)
My question: I have a directory under root: /static/images/
pdbFiles where I have files without extensions for a java applet I
am running on my webpage. Catalyst does not seem to recognize them
unless I put an extension, like .txt. Do I need to configure
Catalyst so that it sees those files as static files?
On cpan, I found that I can force directories into static mode using
this (for example):
MyApp->config->{static}->{dirs} = [
'static',
qr/^(images/pdbFiles|)/,
];
but, where do I put this code, if that is, in fact, what I am
supposed to do? And since I want it to work for files with no
extensions, what do I put after the pipe?
If you already have your files in /static, then it will do what you
want by default. The problem is that without an extension,
Static::Simple can't determine the correct MIME type, so it uses text/
html. One approach to handling this is to subclass
Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple and override _ext_to_type so it
returns the correct MIME type for those files...
package MyApp::Plugin::Static::Simple;
use strict;
use warnings;
use base qw( Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple );
sub _ext_to_type {
my ( $self, $path ) = @_;
if ( $path =~ /pdbFiles/ ) {
return 'application/x-java-applet';
} else {
return $self->SUPER::_ext_to_type( $path );
}
}
1;
Then in your application class...
use Catalyst qw(
+MyApp::Plugin::Static::Simple
Session Cache Whatever...
);
--
Jason Kohles, RHCA RHCDS RHCE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.jasonkohles.com/
"A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire
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