On 2012-10-31 13:30, Anthony Gladdish wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ian Docherty [mailto:catal...@iandocherty.com] >> Sent: 31 October 2012 11:29 >> To: The elegant MVC web framework >> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Access Catalyst context object from script >> >> On 31 October 2012 10:41, Anthony Gladdish >> <anthony.gladd...@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Got a lot of code in a controller that should be moved out and >> into an external script (that's called by a cronjob) which calls >> stuff from the Model and then emails it. >>> The script can access the model fine and re-use a >> Template::Toolkit template already written fine (I'm using >> MIME::Lite::TT). However, in the template itself there's a lot of >> calls to the Catalyst context object, in the form of: >>> [% Catalyst.uri_for( ... ) %] >>> >>> ... which aren't displaying anything. I don't really want to hard >> code the URIs, so is there a way to get access to the Catalyst >> context object of a running app, in a separate external script? >> I can understand the reluctance to hard-code URIs, however i >> would be >> reluctant to suggest that you bring in the whole of Catalyst just >> to >> satisfy this one requirement. >> >> What is the template? I presume it is an email, and that you are >> putting links to locations within your Catalyst application into the >> email? > Correct. It's a bog standard .tt file printing text to be sent as an email, > containing links to actions within the Cat app. > >> What form of uri_for are you using? If it is just to capture the >> applications root then could you replace it with your own >> convenience >> routine that just implemented that aspect of what uri_for is >> doing >> without bringing in the whole of Catalyst? > > [% > Catalyst.uri_for(Catalyst.controller('MyController').action_for('myaction'), > [ some_id ] ) %] > > Could you offer an example, based on my uri_for example above? I suggest to load your Catalyst app with a config that doesn't load unnecessary stuff like the models and views, just the controllers and use $c->uri_for_action. Take a look at how Catalyst::Test::ctx_request does it or even use Catalyst::Test...
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