[Catalyst] Making pages within pages

[Paul Makepeace]

On 8/1/06, Ted Carnahan <ted at tedcarnahan.com> wrote:
> Have a look at Catalyst::Plugin::SubRequest.

Ah, great, thanks, that looks like what my snippet was trying to achieve.

> That will allow you to
> make a completely separate request to a different action, and it returns
> the finished result in a variable.  Then it's up to you to write that
> out to a file or do whatever with it.  You can even do the subrequest
> call from your TT view and skip the writing to disk entirely if it suits
> you better.

What example would it be used from a view? At least for what I'm doing
seems more like a controller activity.. Also, if I were trying to link
to the generated page from the main result how could I not save it to
disk? Aside from chicanery storing huge blobs in the session or
whatever.

Cheers, Paul

>
> - Ted Carnahan
>
> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 04:18 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > I have an ordinary Cat app that needs to generate some subsidiary
> > status output to a file that's then linked to in the main page's
> > output. Originally I was going to do all the Template process etc
> > myself but then wondered if there was a 'blessed' way of exploiting
> > the catalyst machinery. Here's what I came up with,
> >
> >       my ($self, $c) = @_;
> >       my $template = $c->stash->{template};
> >       $c->stash->{template} = 'news/subpage';
> >       $c->forward('View::TT');
> >       render_somewhere('news/status' => $c->response->out);
> >       $c->response->output(''); # so the view is re-rendered
> >       $c->stash->{template} = $template;
> >         $c->stash->{status_page} = 'news/status';
> >
> > What's nice about this is that news/subpage is found by catalyst - I'm
> > wondering how much of render_somewhere() cat could help with. Doesn't
> > have to follow that API, I just include that as an example; anything
> > that gets the data down on disk will do.
> >
> > Paul
> >
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