[Catalyst] Advice needed on porting 5.7 plugin (monkeypatches Cat::Request)

[Tomas Doran]

Pedro Melo wrote:
>  * is it possible for a plugin, at setup time, to set the request_class()?

Yes.

before setup_finalize => sub { my $self = shift; 
$self->request_class("New::Request::Class"); };

>  * is there a better way?

Yes. Make a request class role, then use CatalystX::RoleApplicator
to apply it to the request class.

See Catalyst::Plugin::Browser for an example of it being used in a plugin.

Cheers
t0m