[Catalyst] RESTful perl implementations...

[Matt S Trout]

Garrett Goebel wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Matt S Trout wrote:
> 
>> Garrett Goebel wrote:
>>> I'm sure this is too late to be useful. But here is my subclassed
>>> Catalyst::Action to implemented RESTful request method based
>>> dispatching. [I've been working on this in my free time. Which I have
>>> precious little of lately. My apologies.]
>>>
>>> The references to $c->request->path_parameters are to support RoR
>>> style processing of urls (foo.com/person;create) where
>>> Catalyst::Dispatcher->perpare_action is overridden to match url paths
>>> separate from path parameters and file extensions.
>>>
>>> I also override Catalyst::Dispatcher->setup_actions to change the
>>> default method_action_class to my subclass of Catalyst::Action. I was
>>> surprised that default method_action_class and action_container_class
>>> appear to be hard coded...
>> These shouldn't need to be altered - the action class for  
>> dispatchable actions
>> can be applied via :ActionClass or for an entire controller via  
>> classdata.
> 
> Perhaps it is a matter of taste, but I find appending :ActionClass to  
> dispatchable actions to be clunky.
> 
> Time permitting, I'll pour through the documentation and code on how  
> to do that with "an entire controller via classdata". Or if you can  
> point me directly to the relevant documentation that would be greatly  
> appreciated.

package MyApp::Controller::Foo;

use base qw/Catalyst::Controller/;

__PACKAGE__->_action_class('My::Action::Class');

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