[Catalyst] PathPart help

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:47:34AM -0800, Les Fletcher wrote:
> I have question about setting up PathPart's and Chaining.  I am trying 
> to set something that has the following look:
> 
> /namespace/ => This lists out a list of objects
> /namespace/<id> => displays detail information about the object with the 
> numeric id=<id>
> /namespace/<id>/edit => brings up a form to edit object with numeric id=<id>
> /namespace/create => brings up a form to create a new object
> 
> When the Chained actions are printed out everything looks fine, but when 
> I goto "/namespace/create" it matches the "/namespace/<id>" view 
> action.  Needless to say, there isn't an object with the numeric id of 
> "create."

Try upgrading to absolute latest Catalyst, I'm sure somebody patched this.

If that doesn't help, I'd suggest using

/namespace/id/<id>/edit

which is what I always use anyway, in case I need to change to string ids
later (slightly obsessive future-proofing but I've long since decided it's
not paranoia and the requirements changes -are- out to get me :).

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