[Catalyst] Uniform treatment of all parameters (including file uploads)

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:25:30PM +0000, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
> I constantly bump into the mismatch in the treatment of 'normal'
> params and the file uploads.
> 
> Wouldn't life be simpler if
> 
> $c->request->param( 'file_field' )
> 
> would return a Catalyst::Request::Upload object (or an array of them)?

No, because this would break the ability to pass the request object to
something expecting the CGI.pm API, and break compat for existing app code.

Maybe have a think about what you'd like to see from a completely new
unified API and propose that?

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