[Catalyst] Problem with RenderView

Adam Jacob adam at stalecoffee.org
Fri May 4 19:12:38 GMT 2007


On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:05:07AM -0400, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> > What Bogdan was trying to tell you is that while, yes, your code does
> > do the write, doing it inside your controller is somewhat against the
> > MVC method generally used in Catalyst.   Which means, essentially,
> > that you are going to run into problems with the modules because they
> > all expect MVC behavior.
> 
> Well, mostly. The REST Action stuff doesn't use views at all by default.
> So, it's happy writing output and not going to a view at all (unless you
> map a content-type to a View manually)....
> 
> As such, what is the REST stuff doing, or how is it avoiding using views
> for most of it's output? Therein probably lays the answer the this
> particular problem.

The REST stuff is just setting $c->res->output() directly.

Which is what he is trying to avoid.

Adam

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