On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi all > > In Ruby we can detect if the current form's request is a post or not. > > def controller_action > if request.post? > # Process post data as the user has submitted the form. > else > # Display form > end > end > > > Looking at Catalyst::Request > ( > http://search.cpan.org/~mramberg/Catalyst-Runtime-5.71001/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm#$req-%3Eprotocol<http://search.cpan.org/%7Emramberg/Catalyst-Runtime-5.71001/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm#$req-%3Eprotocol> > ), > I found $req->method. The description says, "Contains the request method > (GET, POST, HEAD, etc)." > > So, in Catalyst, would it be sufficient for me to do something like: > > sub controller_action : Path('registration') > { > if (($c->request->method eq 'POST') or ($c->request->method eq 'GET')) > { > # Process post data as the user has submitted the form. > } > else > { > # Display form > } > > return 1; > } > > > Comments? Thanks > > > Yes, as the docs say, that's what it is for :)
$c->req->method eq 'POST' will do what you want. You should not do any processing on a GET request, though. It is just bad practice. -J
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