[Catalyst] Chained actions in different packages

[Matt S Trout]

Xavier Robin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new at Catalyst and I'm doing an application for storing biological 
> metadata documents concerning an experiment.
> 
> I want (or I would like) to have the following structure of URLs:
> 
> (1) /experiment
> (2) /experiment/<exp_number>
> (3) /experiment/<exp_number>/gel
> (4) /experiment/<exp_number>/gel/<gel_number>
> (5) /experiment/<exp_number>/gel/<gel_number>/<a_lot_of_actions>
> 
> So I have the following actions : 
> 
> (1) sub ask_experiment : PathPart('experiment') Chained('/') Args(0) { }
> (2) sub show_experiment : PathPart('experiment') Chained('/') Args(1) { }
> (3) sub experiment : PathPart('experiment') Chained('/') CaptureArgs(1) { }
> And :
> (3) sub ask_gel : PathPart('gel') Chained('experiment') Args(0) { }
> (4) sub show_gel : PathPart('gel') Chained('experiment') Args(1) { }
> (5) sub gel : PathPart('gel') Chained('experiment') CaptureArgs(1) { }
> 
> It works fine, exactly as I want it to be.
> Now, because of <a_lot_of_actions>, I would like to put all the "gel*" actions 
> in a specific package, and "experiment*" in another one.
> 
>> package MyApp::Controller::Experiment;
>> sub ask_experiment : PathPart('experiment') Chained('/') Args(0) { }
>> sub show_experiment : PathPart('experiment') Chained('/') Args(1) { }
>> sub experiment : PathPart('experiment') Chained('/') CaptureArgs(1) { }
> And
>> package MyApp::Controller::Gel;
>> sub ask_gel : PathPart('gel') Chained('experiment') Args(0) { }
>> sub show_gel : PathPart('gel') Chained('experiment') Args(1) { }
>> sub gel : PathPart('gel') Chained('experiment') CaptureArgs(1) { }
> 
> But then, it don't work anymore ! :-(
> I tried to state the package explicitly in Chained(), for example :
> 
>> sub ask_gel : PathPart('gel')
>> 	Chained('MyApp::Controller::Experiment::experiment') Args(0) { } 
         Chained('/experiment/experiment')

You need the action private path, as shown in the startup debug log.

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