[catalyst] conditional loading of Controllers and Models

[Jason Kohles]

On Jul 16, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Christopher H. Laco wrote:

> Matt S Trout wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:48:50PM +0200, Daniel McBrearty wrote:
>>> is there a way to have some C's and M's load into catalyst
>>> conditionally? for example, if some config variable is set?
>>
>> Exclude some of them with setup_components config.
>>
>> Or just do it via @INC manipulation - I use this a fair bit for  
>> testing.
>>
>> Depends what you're trying to achieve really, and you haven't told  
>> us :)
>>
>
> Actually, this has me curious as well. In my case, I'd like to load
> "Setup" controllers  only when someone passes a --setup arg...so they
> can use the web based config once, deliberately. After that, just
> loading the app wouldn't expose those controllers to the world  
> accidentally.
>
This is one technique that I've used for having controllers that are  
only enabled while in debug mode, seems simple enough to change the  
condition that disables it.  Just put this in the controller class...

sub register_actions {
	my ( $self, $c ) = @_;

	if ( ! $c->debug ) { return }
	return $self->SUPER::register_actions( $c );
}

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