[Catalyst] Configuring View::TT per request

[Matt S Trout]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:29:12PM -0700, Devo Coran wrote:
> (sorry I sent to wrong list first time my bad :( )
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to catalyst and am stuck on how to do this..
> 
> I'm using View::TT and for most of my requests I do
> want it to use the standard config with:
> 
>     PRE_PROCESS        => 'config/main',
>     WRAPPER            => 'site/wrapper',
> 
> However by the same token I have a number of other
> requests, like ajax content coming into a div, where I
> don't want to use those config options or add a
> header/footer etc.
> 
> For now I've been getting around by using [% IF
> somevar %] type blocks to include/exclude header/foot
> content but that's rather hacked, what I really need
> is to be able to configure the View::TT per request.
> 
> I even have one template that I need to display
> without going through TT at all, it needs to show as
> plain text so a user can edit it as is.  For that I
> had to edit the wrapper to pass it through as text
> when it sees a template with that name.
> 
> So again if I could configure View:TT per request I
> can avoid hacks.

Why can't you just use

$c->stash(additional_template_paths => [ ... ])

to add extra search paths that result in a different wrapper/whatever template
being picked up?

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