[Catalyst] Chained actions question

[leonard.a.jaffe at jpmchase.com]

I haven't asked a question in a couple of days, so I figured you were all 
going through withdrawal, and I'd hook you up.

I am thinking about some restful URLs for a particular bit of a screen I'm 
working on.

It is a master detail edit/view screen, and I want to be able to specify 
the master record via its primary key (id), or its date (report_date - 
YYYY-MM-DDD).
I only ever want to refer to the detail records by their PKs (id).
The report has an id, a date, and a presenter
The issue has issue detail, an id, and a report_id foreign key.

My screen shows a list of all of the issues for a particular status 
report. 

I need to be able to handle URLs like these:

1) /report/9/                                          -   displays all 
the master/detail screen  for master(9) and all of its detail children
2) /report/2006/08/22                        -   likewise for 
master(2006-08-22) and all of its detail children
3) /report/add/                                    -   inserts a new 
master record for today's date 

4) /report/9/add/                           -  inserts an issue for 
master(9)
5) /report/2006/08/22/add         -   inserts an issue for 
master(2006/08/22)
[ likewise for update of issue data]

6) /report/9/edit/3                                   - displays the 
screen for master(9) with issue(3) loaded into the issued add/edit form.
7) /report/2006/08/22/edit/3                - displays the screen for 
master(2006/08/22) with issue(3) loaded into the issued add/edit form.

Now, I'm not entirely sure I wan tot use the numeric id columns as part of 
the URLs since I can be passing the date around on the URL, or in the 
session, but that might just be my reaction to not being bale to write 
working action declarations.
But I've been unable to work out the proper method declarations to create 
this setup as Chained actions, which is what calls to me whenever I see 
restful URLs like these.  What is currently stumping me is trying to use 
either 1 or 3 args for the report key.

Has anybody done this kind of setup before?
Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

Len.

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