[Catalyst-commits] r11533 - Catalyst-Runtime/5.80/trunk/lib/Catalyst

[hobbs at dev.catalyst.perl.org]

Author: hobbs
Date: 2009-10-15 02:32:28 +0000 (Thu, 15 Oct 2009)
New Revision: 11533

Modified:
   Catalyst-Runtime/5.80/trunk/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm
Log:
Give people a pointer to chase if they're looking for info on $c->req->user


Modified: Catalyst-Runtime/5.80/trunk/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm
===================================================================
--- Catalyst-Runtime/5.80/trunk/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm	2009-10-14 21:35:21 UTC (rev 11532)
+++ Catalyst-Runtime/5.80/trunk/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm	2009-10-15 02:32:28 UTC (rev 11533)
@@ -676,7 +676,10 @@
 =head2 $req->user
 
 Returns the currently logged in user. B<Highly deprecated>, do not call,
-this will be removed in version 5.81.
+this will be removed in version 5.81. To retrieve the currently authenticated
+user, see C<< $c->user >> and C<< $c->user_exists >> in 
+L<Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication>. For the C<REMOTE_USER> provided by the
+webserver, see C<< $req->remote_user >> below.
 
 =head2 $req->remote_user