[Catalyst] Often used templates as method

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:50:54PM +0200, Sven Eppler wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm using catalyst with TT as my template engine. I made some templates  
> for errors, warnings, messages, redirecting and stuff. But because i'm a  
> quite a lazy boy i don't like to do this:
> 
> 
> $c->stash->{title} = "Some Error Title";
> $c->stash->{message} = "Some error message";
> $c->stash->{template} = 'box/error';
> 
> 
> over and over again. Beside my lazyness, this would even help me out if i  
> deicide to rename the template sometime or stuff like this. So i thought  
> about a better way. Which eventually should be a method which resides in  
> the View itself. Something like:

Why not just wrap these up into a controller method?

$c->forward('/setup_error', [ $title, $message ]);

or whatever?

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