[Catalyst] Session example from Tutorial.pod doesn't work?

[Jess Robinson]

Why are 9were) you calling ->login() *again* after having logged in? To 
retrieve the user, you need $c->user(), which is where it gets stored.

Is the tutorial not clear on that? Else I will fix it..

Jess


On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, catalyst wrote:

> I'm new to Catalyst and thought I'd start with the tutorial:
>   http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Catalyst-5.63/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial.pod
> 
> I've gotten through most of the "Users and Authenticating" section and it's all working as advertised, but the last part (sessions) doesn't. >From the doc:
> 
>     To keep the user logged in, all we need to do is
>     add the Session modules to our collection, and
>     the Auth modules will automatically use them;
> 
>       use Catalyst qw/-Debug Static::Simple Authentication 
>         Authentication::Store::Minimal 
>         Authentication::Credential::Password
>         Session Session::Store::File Session::State::Cookie/;
> 
>     Magic!
> 
> Unfortunately, the magic isn't working for me. When I call $c->login after a good login, the session apparently hasn't saved the credentials. What's more, when I look at
> 
>   Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Credential::Password::login()
> 
> I don't see any way that it could be using a session. It always wants a user and password to be explicitly passed or included in the CGI args.
> 
> ---
> Rodney Broom
> 
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