[Catalyst] Use of uri_for with CaptureArgs

[Alan Hicks]

Bogdan Lucaciu wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008 14:09:25 Alan Hicks wrote:
>> MyApp::Controller::Artist::Images
>> sub images_setup : Chained('/artist/artist_setup') PathPart('images')
>> CaptureArgs(1)  {}
>> /artist/*/images/*
>>
>>  From within MyApp::Controller::Artist::Images uri_for($id, 'show')
>> gives http://localhost/artist/images/*/show which does not take into
>> account the artist id so do I have to build uri_for('/artist',
>> $artist_id, 'images', $id, 'show') which appears cumbersome.
> 
> From the documentation of uri_for (perldoc Catalyst): 
> $c->uri_for( $path, @args?, \%query_values? )
> 
> If the first element of @args is an arrayref it is treated as a list of 
> captures to be passed to "uri_for_action"
> 
> I would do: 
> $c->uri_for( $c->controller('Artist::Images').action_for('show') , 
> [$artist_id, $image_id]);
> 
> this can be shortened by writing an action_uri sub in MyApp.pm: 
> $c->action_uri( qw/Artist::Images show/, [$artist_id, $image_id]);
> 	
> You can read more about uri_for in the calendar article:
> http://catalyst.perl.org/calendar/2007/13
> 

Thanks,
Thought I'd missed something obvious.