[Catalyst] Loading template according to request path

[Eden Cardim]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Matt Whipple<matt at mattwhipple.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's precisely what chained actions are for:

sub content : Chained('/') CaptureArgs(0) PathPart('content/as') {
    my($self, $c) = @_;
    $c->stash->{data} = $c->model('Content');
}

# /content/as/html -- renders root/content/as/html.tt
sub html : Chained('content') Args(0) {}

# /content/as/text -- renders root/content/as/text.tt
sub text : Chained('content') Args(0) {}

# /content/as/graph
# doesn't process a template at all as long as View::SVG sets $c->res->body
sub graph : Chained('content') Args(0) {
    my($self, $c) = @_;
    $c->forward('View::SVG'); # sets res->body, res->content_type, etc.
}

sub whatever : Chained('content') Args(0) { #etc... }

# insert jshirley's end action here

what's missing?
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