[Catalyst-dev] subdomain hook for Catalyst::Test

[Jason Gottshall]

Ashley wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Jason Gottshall wrote:
>> No clubs here, but honestly the "subdomain" case is the original 
>> problem I was trying to solve. We use virtual subdomains to enable 
>> customer-specific behaviors, and they could be tacked on to any number 
>> of white-labeled base domains. My aim is to be able to modify only the 
>> subdomain value in a test, irrespective of the rest of base domain name.
> 
> I only skimmed most of the earlier stuff. I suppose there could possibly 
> be some dynamic configuration management based on the host. It might 
> have to be a plugin if it sits in the top of the request cycle.
> 
> Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigPerHost ...
> # load configuration variables by the c->req->uri->host
> 
> Then in config (YAML style)
> 
> Plugin::ConfigPerHost:
>   my.host.com: config stuff
>   your.host.com:
>        config_file: ...?
> 
> ...or allow your.host.com.(conf|yml) to just work?
> 
> No idea if that's a good tack though.

I appreciate your thoughts in this direction, but right now I'm not 
trying to solve any configuration problem in the app; that's already 
working just fine. The point here is how to patch Catalyst::Test to 
allow me to specify a subdomain value to be used in a test request.

We've already solved the problem of specifying a fully qualified "host", 
and hearing no objections I'm going to continue to use the term 
"subdomain" for the mechanism that allows you to specify just a portion 
of the host.