[Catalyst-dev] RFC: DWIM redirects

[Jonathan Rockway]

John Napiorkowski wrote:
> I have to agree, I know myself this caused a lot of
> trouble and confusion.  I thinks this confusion
> happens because a lot of the time
> $c->request->redirect sort of does what you want,
> particularly if you are using any of the suggested
> default end actions, since those automatically do the
> right thing with redirect statuses.  It's only when
> you  'go off the reservation' and start creating stuff
> that doesn't use the renderview action class or need
> to perform redirects that are not the very last
> statement in an action that cause you a lot of
> trouble.  

I disagree.  Instead of writing:

$c->response->redirect($c->uri_for('/path/to/something'));
$c->detach();

I want to write:

$c->redirect('/path/to/something');

Clear. Concise.  DWIM.

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