<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Kyle Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kyle.m.hall@gmail.com">kyle.m.hall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello all,<br>
I'm trying to write a REST service using the REST controller. The<br>
problem I'm running into is I can't seem to use 'index' as I can with<br>
the standard catalyst controller. I would like my URIs to look like<br>
/api/rest/documents, /api/rest/staff and so on. From these paths I<br>
would like to do the standard GET, PUT, POST and DELETE calls.<br>
<br>
However, if I create the controller<br>
MyApp::Controller::API::REST::Documents, and I try this:<br>
sub index : Local : ActionClass('REST') {}<br>
The system loads this as the path action /api/rest/documents/index.<br>
<br>
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Kyle<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Have you considered using Chained for this? Your URL structure looks like it would lend itself nicely to that.<div><br></div><div>You'd do something like:</div><div><br></div><div>package <meta charset="utf-8">MyApp::Web::Controller::API::REST::Documents;</div>
<div>use ...</div><div>BEGIN { extends 'MyApp::Web::Controller::API::REST' }</div><div><br></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div># chaining to '.' allows you to have a chain root in a parent class</div><div># that you can chain off of and inherit functionality from (see <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Catalyst-Runtime-5.80032/lib/Catalyst/DispatchType/Chained.pm#Attributes">http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Catalyst-Runtime-5.80032/lib/Catalyst/DispatchType/Chained.pm#Attributes</a> under "Chained")</div>
<div># also, specify the path part here, so index acts how you want it to as an end point.</div><div>sub documents : Chained('.') PathPart('documents') CaptureArgs(0) {</div><div> my ($self, $c) = @_;</div>
<div> # do whatever document grabbing functionality you need to do here</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub index : Chained('documents') PathPart('') Args(0) {</div><div> my ($self, $c) = @_;</div>
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# display stuff etc</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>NOTE: This is untested code, but it SHOULD give you an idea of what to do.</div><div> <br>-- <br>Devin Austin<br><a href="http://www.codedright.net">http://www.codedright.net</a><br>
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