[Catalyst] Loading template according to request path

[Matt Whipple]

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Matt Whipple <matt at mattwhipple.com 
> <mailto:matt at mattwhipple.com>> wrote:
>
>     J. Shirley wrote:
>
>         On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Matt Whipple
>         <matt at mattwhipple.com <mailto:matt at mattwhipple.com>
>         <mailto:matt at mattwhipple.com <mailto:matt at mattwhipple.com>>>
>         wrote:
>
>            Is there a presently existing mechanism which flexibly
>         allows for
>            template selection according to the request URI?  For
>         instance a
>            request to www.myapp.com/somepage
>         <http://www.myapp.com/somepage> <http://www.myapp.com/somepage>
>
>            would set something like stash(template => 'somepage.tt
>         <http://somepage.tt>
>            <http://somepage.tt>') if the file exists and continue to be
>
>            processed by the appropriate or default action.
>
>            I wrote something which does this which I'm about to spend some
>            time cleaning up and optimizing but don't want to be
>         reinventing
>            any wheels (especially likely smoother ones).
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Thanks everyone for your input, I'm certainly gathering that there is 
nothing preexisting that does what I'm looking to do.  I'll continue to 
clean up my version and throw it on CPAN if it seems appealing enough.  
As a quick overview the basic premise is a more direct link from the 
path to the template which would be used for those times when the URI 
path determines presentation after passing through a reusable action 
handler which tailors content (and doesn't necessarily have to worry 
about the template selection).  This is presently done in the auto 
action so that overriding the behavior is natural and any extended logic 
can be handled when and where desired. 

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