[Catalyst] Re: Tweaking REST

[Adam Jacob]

On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Greg McAlpin wrote:

> I would very much appreciate feedback on my approach to using my TT  
> view with REST.  I'm just playing with the AdventREST example  
> trying to understand the whole REST thing.
>
> I created a class (lib/AdventREST/MyREST.pm) for my controllers to  
> inherit from.  This class inherits from Catalyst::Controller::REST.
>
> In MyREST.pm, I override the 'end' method to either use the  
> RenderView ActionClass or the Serialize ActionClass:
>
> sub _renderview : ActionClass('RenderView') {}
> sub _serialize : ActionClass('Serialize') {}
>
> sub end : Private {
>  my ($self, $c) = @_;
>
>  if ( $self->want_renderview($c) ) {
>   $c->forward('_renderview');
>  }
>  else {
>   $c->forward('_serialize');
> }
> where the want_renderview() method can be written however you want  
> to (using the Content-Type or file extension or whatever).

That looks totally reasonable to me.  What we are talking about it  
basically codifying that as a Serialization type, so that people can  
pass various content-types through to a given view.

Adam