[Catalyst] New Root Controller in Catalyst 5.66

[Sebastian Riedel]

01.03.2006 05:39 Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior:

> On 3/1/06, Sebastian Riedel <sri at oook.de> wrote:
>> This is another best practice promoted to be part of core, it will
>> eliminate namespace collisions like for the famous "login" action in
>> combination with auth plugins. ;)
>
> This change is great for those who started using Catalyst.
> I got somewhat frustrated when I spent something like half an hour (or
> more) trying to figure out what was wrong with my application only to
> then think about that "login" action. I now feel glad to know it's a
> common mistake and you're trying to encourage best practices against
> it.
>
> I just wonder. With the advent of YAML configuration files and this
> Root controller, the base application class will be pretty much empty,
> right? Or is there something else people usually put in there?

Right, it gets "cleaner". :)
The application class was from the beginning just meant as a place to  
interact with Catalyst "internals", load plugins, configure the app  
and the like.


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sebastian