[Catalyst] Regex dispatch type is deprecated

[Juan Miguel Paredes]

Just a reminder, for people that have been hit by initially missing a
detail, like me, and at least someone else in this -probably not a bug-
report: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=104451

If you're using the controller skeleton provided by 'myapp_create.pl
controller ...', and want to import Types for Constraints like mentioned by
John, be sure to either remove namespace::autoclean from your used modules,
or use it properly so it doesn't clean your imported Types :)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Napiorkowski [mailto:jjn1056 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 07 July 2015 19:51
> To: The elegant MVC web framework
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Regex dispatch type is deprecated
>
> Dmitry,
>
> You can use the Regexp Dispatcher on CPAN, for legacy code.  There is no
> plan to stop supporting it, unless we hit a point where we can't support it
> when making required fixes to Catalyst.  I just wanted to remove it from
> Catalyst core such as to emphasis its no longer the approved approach and
> prevent people from writing new code with it.
>
> If you are using the newest Catalyst, we added Type Constraint matching to
> Args and this should let you dispatch on regexp types in a very similar
> manner.  Take a look at
>
>
>
> https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Catalyst-Runtime/lib/Catalyst/RouteMatching.pod#Using-type-constraints-in-a-controller
> which has an example of using a regular expression type constraint
> generator is a way that functions similarly to how the old regexp worked.
> For example:
>
>
> package MyApp::Controller::User;
>
> use Moose;
> use MooseX::MethodAttributes;
> use Types::Standard qw/StrMatch/;
>
> extends 'Catalyst::Controller';
>
> sub looks_like_a_date :Path('') Args(StrMatch[qr{\d\d-\d\d-\d\d\d\d}]) {
>   my ($self, $c, $date) = @_;
> }
>
> __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
>
>
> requires a URL like /user/11-11-2222
> That is one approach, or you can create custom ActionRoles for special
> dispatch rule needs.  In general I think the new feature to add type
> constraint checks on Args and CaptureArgs gives you everything you had with
> regexp and more.  Feedback, and bug fix patches welcomed!
>
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