[Catalyst] simple question ... I think ...

[Joe Landman]

Solution... see below ...

Matt S Trout wrote:
> Joe Landman wrote:
>> Ok, being stupid today
>>
>> I have a simple controller named directory.  It has a default method.
>> So things named
>>
>>     http://localhost:3000/directory
>>
>> should go to it.  Now I want to capture
>>
>>     http://localhost:3000/directory/other/things/...
>>
>> that is, I want this controller to handle anything past the default
>> method.  It does this by default.  My question is, how do I get access
>> to the rest of the path after /directory?  This is what I have ...
>>
>> sub default : Regex('^(.*)$') {
>>     my ( $self, $c, $rest ) = @_;
>>     ...
>>
>> }
> 
> sub base :Path {
> ...
> }
> 
>> and I want $rest to be /other/things/...
>>
>> This is not working though.  I tried a Path('/directory') that worked,
>> as long as I gave it /directory/other.  As soon as I tried
>> /directory/other/things, it gave me /directory/other.
> 
> sub other :Local :Args(0) { ... }
> 
> so /directory/other only is matched by that method
> 
>> Hmmm...
>>
>> Hints?  Clues?  FAQs?  Pointers?
> 
> Catalyst::Manual::Intro has been improved for 5.70 and explains the
> attrs better now.

The hint I needed was that the regex'es are passed in via
$c->request->snippets.  This controller definition works nicely.

sub base : Regex('^directory(.*)$') {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    my ($rest);

    $rest	= @{$c->request->snippets}[0];
    ....
}

Would localregex eliminate the need to hardwire the "directory" in
there?  Will play with this...

Thanks.
-- 
Joe Landman
landman |at| scalableinformatics |dot| com