[Catalyst] Can't detach from root / create action object

[Craig Chant]

Hi Andre,

That is clearer, and Alexander provided me with a working solution, but it doesn't make sense with your example.

$action is an action object isn't it?

So Alexander's example has :-

$c->detach($c->controller('ComplianceUpdate')->action_for('index'));

So I assume

$c->controller('ComplianceUpdate')->action_for('index');

is returning an action object that is passed to detach.

However, your example just has a string path '/a/my_action_1' , how is that an action object?

Are you  saying detach (for the single argument signature) takes a URL path and that $action is just a string scalar with a URL path in it and not an action object reference as I got the impression?

Or are there two single argument signatures to detach() one takes an Action object and one takes a URL path string?

Because I did a Data::Dumper of

die Dumper($c->controller('ComplianceUpdate')->action_for('index')) and I got an object!

"$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'namespace' => 'complianceupdates',
                 'name' => 'index',
                 'class' => 'HLP_Members::Controller::ComplianceUpdates',
                 'attributes' => {
                                   'Path' => [
                                               'complianceupdates'
                                             ],
                                   'Args' => [
                                               '0'
                                             ]
                                 },
                 'reverse' => 'complianceupdates/index',
                 'code' => sub { "DUMMY" }
               }, 'Catalyst::Action' );"


Having just tested with : -

$c->detach('/complianceupdates/index');

is working.

So the question now is which is better...

$c->controller('ComplianceUpdate')->action_for('index');

or

$c->detach('/complianceupdates/index');

Pass a string or a pass an object?

Thanks,

Craig.

-----Original Message-----
From: André Walker [mailto:andre at andrewalker.net]
Sent: 27 November 2013 13:04
To: The elegant MVC web framework
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Can't detach from root / create action object

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:36:54PM +0000, Craig Chant wrote:
> No the documentation isn't clear, if I could understand it I wouldn’t
> be asking this question.

I'm sorry you couldn't understand from the documentation. I'll try and explain a little more here:

# lib/MyApp/Controller/A.pm
package MyApp::Controller::A;
...

sub my_action_1 :Local {
     my ($self, $c) = @_;
     $c->res->body('in action 1');
}

sub my_action_2 :Local {
     my ($self, $c) = @_;
     $c->detach('my_action_1');
}

# lib/MyApp/Controller/B.pm
package MyApp::Controller::A;
...

sub other_action :Local {
     my ($self, $c) = @_;
     $c->detach('/a/my_action_1');
     # or
     $c->detach('MyApp::Controller::A', 'my_action_1'); }

Is it clearer now?

Cheers!
André


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