[Catalyst] Re: Request paths - rejoining Chained actions together.

[Matt S Trout]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:01:47AM +0100, Tomas Doran wrote:
> 
> On 10 May 2008, at 15:26, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> 
> >* Tomas Doran <bobtfish at bobtfish.net> [2008-05-10 09:25]:
> >>If I was to hack some code (and tests) up which supported my
> >>originally suggested syntax ( Chained('sub1', 'sub2') for
> >>joining chains), what would anyone feel about it?
> >
> >You could no longer make `uri_for` work in the general case if
> >you did that.
> 
> Aha! I had a feeling the reason that someone didn't do that already  
> is that there was a compelling reason to not do so - I just hadn't  
> thought about it hard enough..

That's a compelling reason not to rush in, but I still think it's possible.

The trick is to provide some way to disambiguate - either a preferred path
(which could vary between controllers, say) or maybe passing an arrayref
of action objects indicating the precise chain.

Have a think about it and see about an RFC if you're still interested; the
trouble is the extra bookkeeping rapidly gets us to the point where the
base class + N controllers approach isn't really any more typing anyway,
which is why I've not given this much time yet.

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