[Catalyst] Mapping parameters for web services

[Matt S Trout]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:15:20AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:33:13PM +0100, Matt S Trout wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand; the controller should really just be doing stuff
> > that's specific to the app UI, so surely you should be mapping both your
> > existing controllers' input params and te XMLRPC params onto calls to the
> > same model?
> 
> Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear.  It's not a pressing problem (I can work
> it out) but more curious about how best to do this in a catalyst way.
> 
> The question was about sharing the *same* controller for different types
> of requests.
> 
> The C::P::Server::XMLRPC plugin allows adding attributes to existing
> controllers, so you can do:
> 
>     sub user_detail : Local : XMLRPC {
>         my ( $self, $c, $user_id ) = @_;
> 
>         # validate user_id and place user object in stash.
> 
>     }

Yes, and I'm saying that that's cute and all, but don't do that.

If you want to share controller code, use a common base class.

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