[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst Digest, Vol 23, Issue 86

[Greg McAlpin]

Thanks for taking time to look at this!  I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going down a bad path.
   
  Greg

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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:36:03 -0800
From: Adam Jacob 
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Tweaking REST
To: claco at chrislaco.com, The elegant MVC web framework

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On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
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>> As it stands now, REST JustWorks with xml/json stuff. text/html is
>> mapped to YAML::HTML, but I want to map that to my standard TT 
>> view.

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:48:10 -0800
From: Adam Jacob 
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Re: Tweaking REST
To: The elegant MVC web framework 
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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



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