[Catalyst] Catalyst::Controller::REST and JSON::XS - Namespace/Custom modules

[Simon Zmijanow]

Hello list,

Started last month with Catalyst and got fascinated with all the nice 
things one can do with it.

But now got a little question and hope it is not too stupid :-)

I must admit, I don't have a clue how to cleanly load my custom 
module/class into the frameworks namespace (anywhere, not only into the 
Schema part)

I'm using Catalyst::Controller::REST in my application and want to use 
JSON::XS serializer instead of default JSON::Syck (By the way, why is 
Syck still default x-json serializer - even the comment in Syck advises 
us to change to more reliable XS)

So I copied the two JSON wrappers from Action directory into my 
application dir, modified them to use JSON::XS and renamed them into 
JSONXS. The Catalyst::Controller::REST got config option map 'JSONXS'. 
Now I should tell somehow catalyst to use my new classes, to load them 
from my application dir, maybe the way similar like the DBIC Schema 
Class by calling load_classes(). Is there trivial or documented way to 
accomplish this within other part of catalyst i.e. Controller?

For now I added my new JSONXS wrappers into Action subdirs of catalyst 
root, but I regard it more as temporary hack then good solution for 
custom serializer.

cu

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simon zmijanow