[Catalyst] Trouble getting attribute parameters for action classes

[John Napiorkowski]

Hi,

I'm working on an action class and trying to
understand how parameters are passed into attributes.

If I call an action class like this:

sub test :Local ActionClass('test') myAttr() {}

in the action class match I can check for that custom
attribute like so:

sub match
{
  my $self = shift @_;
  my ($c)  = @_;

  return 1 unless exists $self->attributes->{myAttr};

  my @params = @{$self->attributes->{myAttr}};

  ...
}

However no matter what I use for attribute parameters
that @params always has a single entry.  I figure I
must be doing something wrong because if the attribute
is only allowed to have a single parameter why bother
to have it in an array ref?

I've tried:

myAttr(a,b,c)
myAttr('a','b','c')
myAttr(qw/a b c/)

but the @params from the example above always ends up
having:

$params[0] = "a,b,c";
$params[0] = "a','b','c";
$params[0] = "qw/a b c/";

and the like.

Does anyone know what I am doing incorrectly?

I noticed that when I am writting plugins I have the
same sort of trouble, BTW.

Thanks!

John









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