[Catalyst] Action for index not 'index'?

[Kyle Hall]

That sounds like a good technique. I've modified Plugin::Breadcrumb to
work properly and put it in my source tree, but I think I like your
technique better.

Kyle

http://www.kylehall.info
Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )




On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:27 AM, will trillich
<will.trillich at serensoft.com> wrote:
> We tried some of the breadcrumb libraries too, but couldn't wrestle them
> into our paradigm, either. There are underlying assumptions about your app
> or url structure where it tries to divine patterns on its own that often
> just don't jibe with what you've got set up.
> What we do instead is, we call a function to add another link in our
> breadcrumb chain, so it's deliberate and we're completely in control:
> $c->add_breadcrumb( "/some/$url_component/here", 'Text for link here' );
> throughout our code, and then in the template:
> <ul id="breadcrumbs">
> <li>You are here:</li>
> [% FOREACH crumb IN breadcrumbs -%]
>     <li>[%
>         IF loop.last %]<span title="You are here">[% crumb.label %]</span>[%
>         ELSE %]<a href="[% c.uri_for(crumb.path).path %]">[% crumb.label
> %]</a>[%
>         END
>     %]</li>
> [% END -%]
> </ul>
> And here's MyApp::add_breadcrumb en toto--
> sub add_breadcrumb {
>     my ( $c, $path, $label ) = @_;
>     my $bc = $c->stash->{breadcrumbs} ||= [];
>     push @$bc, +{
>         path => $path,
>         label=> $label,
>     };
> }
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I'm working on adding breadcrumbs to my catalyst app and I've run into
>> something unexpected.
>>
>> I'm using Catalyst::Plugin::Breadcrumbs. Let's assume I have a
>> controller Foo. If I just go to /foo ( the index ), the plugin assumes
>> that the action will be 'index', but the action is actually just
>> 'foo'.
>>
>> Because of this, my breadcrumbs show as Foo/Foo instead of Foo/Index (
>> or just Foo if hide_index is true ).
>>
>> Is this expected behaviour? Has the behaviour changed since
>> Plugin::Breadcrumbs was written? I've been able to modify the code for
>> the plugin to compensate, but was hoping someone could shed some light
>> on this subject.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kyle
>>
>> http://www.kylehall.info
>> Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )
>> Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
>> Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )
>>
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