[Catalyst] Why is $c undefined?

[Rob Brown]

There's no black-magic going on, so your AuthenticateUser() sub never 
"magically" gets $c.

In short, you'll only get $c when using the method attributes, such as 
:Private, :Chained, etc.




On 10/29/2012 07:07 PM, Craig Chant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to be unable to work out why $c is never automatically passed to
> any of my models or methods?
>
> I have in root.pm
>
> # always runs first!
>
> sub begin :Private {
>
> my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
>
> # Authenticate
>
> $self->AuthenticateUser();
>
> return 1;
>
> }
>
> I then have...
>
> sub AuthenticateUser {
>
> my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
>
> $c->session;
>
> if(!$c->model('Members')->LogCheck($c)){
>
> $c->uri_for_action('/login/login');
>
> }
>
> }
>
> However, $c is undefined and errors, it only works if I pass it $c from
> 'begin'..
>
> $self->AuthenticateUser($c);
>
> I was under the impression that $c was the context (Catalyst) default
> variable and was always passed to every method / subroutine.
>
> is this not the case?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig .
>
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