[Catalyst] Advice needed: Action for authentication check

[Jonas]

Just try InstantCRUD from trunk. It does exactly that. :)

--Jonas

On 03/08/06, Matthieu Codron <matthieu at codron.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been playing with some "recent" features of Catalyst like
> Actions and forward chains.
> I was wondering if an action could be used to provide encaspulated
> authentication check like in:
>
> sub dostuff : ActionClass('Secured') {
>  ...
> }
>
> The Secured action would check if a user is logged in and would take
> appropriate actions if not (redirect to a login page or an acces
> denied page)
>
> It seemed a bit top obvious, so I was wondering if I was missing something :-)
>
> In general, are Actions meant to be some kind of AOP feature?
>
> Thanks for the advice(s)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Matthieu
>
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