[Catalyst] How to pass args/data from one controller to another?

[Dustin Suchter]

That's what I was trying before, but check this out:

# CODE 1
#in MyApp::Controller::Libaray
sub read_book : Local {
    my ($self, $c) = @_;
    $c->response->redirect($c->uri_for('/readabook/read_book' ));
}

# CODE 2
#in MyApp::Controller::Libaray
sub read_book : Local {
    my ($self, $c) = @_;
    my ($bid, $pid) = ("2","345");
$c->response->redirect($c->uri_for("/readabook/read_book/$bid/$pid"));
}

# CODE 3
#in MyApp::Controller::ReadABook
sub read_book : Local {
    my ($self, $c, $book_id, $page_id) = @_;
    #do stuff...
}

When I use CODE 1 the app correctly executes CODE 3, but of course
there are no args passed along, so $book_id and $page_id are
uninitalized. When I use CODE 2, Catalyst executes my default action
(home) - my guess it it does this because it can't find a specific
"/readabook/read_book/2/345". For the record I also tried using CODE
1 and stuffing the values I needed into the stash, but that didn't
work either.

So how do you pass args with uri_for? I was hoping to RTFM, but I
couldn't find the FM for "uri_for", and I decided to consult the
Oracle (this mailing list) before trouncing through Catalyst sourcecode.

-d

Antano Solar wrote:
> On Saturday 29 Sep 2007 8:13:27 am Dustin Suchter wrote:
>> So I've thought of a few different ways to pass data between Local
>> methods across two different controllers, but none of them seem like
>> good ideas. I still don't fully get the Catalyst framework yet, so
>> I'm asking a very open question, "What are a few right ways to do
>> this?" TIMTOWTDI, of course.
>>
>> i.e.
>>
>> Controller "Library" has a function "list_books" that, duh, displays
>> a list of books in the lib. Each book is clickable creating an
>> action in another function in Libarary called "read_book" that's
>> only job in life as a function is to pass the $book_id over to the
>> default action in the "ReadABook" controller. How do you pass the
>> $book_id? Through the stash, though a path arg using 'uri_for' and a
>> redirect, using forward?
>>
>> thanks,
>> -d
> 
> You can pass the arguments as arguments to uri_for .
> It appends the value at the end of the uri prefixing a  /,
> The passed values are available in the same way variables are passed to 
> functions inside the controller
> 
> Antano Solar John
> 
> 
> 
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