[Catalyst] How to do REST without deserializing uploaded files (PUT)

[Bruce McKenzie]

I have a controller subclassed from Catalyst::Controller::REST.

Most of my methods are happily ActionClass('REST')'d, but I have one  
where I want a file to be uploaded and NOT
deserialized. Even if I did not include the ActionClass attribute, I  
would get a complaint about no deserialization method for the upload.

I couldn't figure out how to do it, so I backed out the RESTness from  
the controller and implemented a "straight" put method:

sub xxx :Local :Args(0) {
     my ( $self, $c ) = @_;

     return if $c->request->method ne 'PUT';

     my $filecontents = '';

     my ($fh) = $c->request->body;
     while ( my $line = <$fh> )
     {
         $filecontents .= $line;
     }

.... do something with it ...

     $c->response->status('202');
     $c->response->body( "stuff accepted" );

}

Is there a way to declare some paths as NOT subject to  
deserialization? The reason I ask is that I want it for most  
everything...just not for a few paths.

(Incidentally, am I doing the right thing to get the file contents? It  
seems to work and I can't find any other doc/pointers)

FWIW I was using curl to test it:

curl -T somefile  http://localhost:3000/demo/xxx

Thanks very much!

Bruce

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Bruce McKenzie
brucem at dynamicrange.com



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