[Catalyst] RFC on how to structure controllers

[Matt S Trout]

Gert Burger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like some ideas on how todo the following in cat.
> 
> I am in the process of designing a webapp that will allow online 
> gamers(Specificly players in ZA) to interact for a select few games.
> Ie. There will be sections which will be common to each game, just 
> slightly customized for the game.
> 
> My problem is, how do I make sure my controllers know which game they 
> are currently working on, some of my ideas included:
> -Using cookies to store the currently selected game.
> -Using get/post params to send it each time a request is made.
> -Using the game as part of the url, eg 
> http://bla/games/ageofempires3/gamebooking, this will complicate the 
> controller's methods a bit as each method will be a regex.

Have a look at the :ChildOf attribute in

http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/browser/branches/Catalyst-ChildOf/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Intro.pod

for a cleaner, non-regex way to implement this sort of URL that I've been 
working on.

This should hopefully go back to trunk before 5.70 ships.

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