Catalyst::Controller - Catalyst Controller base class


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NAME

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Catalyst::Controller - Catalyst Controller base class

SYNOPSIS

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  package MyApp::Controller::Search
  use base qw/Catalyst::Controller/;

  sub foo : Local {
    my ($self,$c,@args) = @_;
    ...
  } # Dispatches to /search/foo

DESCRIPTION

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Controllers are where the actions in the Catalyst framework reside. Each action is represented by a function with an attribute to identify what kind of action it is. See the Catalyst::Dispatcher for more info about how Catalyst dispatches to actions.

CONFIGURATION

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Like any other Catalyst::Component, controllers have a config hash, accessible through $self->config from the controller actions. Some settings are in use by the Catalyst framework:

namespace

This specifies the internal namespace the controller should be bound to. By default the controller is bound to the URI version of the controller name. For instance controller 'MyApp::Controller::Foo::Bar' will be bound to 'foo/bar'. The default Root controller is an example of setting namespace to '' (the null string).

path

Sets 'path_prefix', as described below.

action

Allows you to set the attributes that the dispatcher creates actions out of. This allows you to do 'rails style routes', or override some of the attribute defintions of actions composed from Roles. You can set arguments globally (for all actions of the controller) and specifically (for a single action).

    __PACKAGE__->config(
        action => {
            '*' => { Chained => 'base', Args => 0  },
            base => { Chained => '/', PathPart => '', CaptureArgs => 0 },
        },
     );

In the case above every sub in the package would be made into a Chain endpoint with a URI the same as the sub name for each sub, chained to the sub named base. Ergo dispatch to /example would call the base method, then the example method.

action_args

Allows you to set constructor arguments on your actions. You can set arguments globally and specifically (as above). This is particularly useful when using ActionRoles (Catalyst::Controller::ActionRole) and custom ActionClasses.

    __PACKAGE__->config(
        action_args => {
            '*' => { globalarg1 => 'hello', globalarg2 => 'goodbye' },
            'specific_action' => { customarg => 'arg1' },
        },
     );

In the case above the action class associated with specific_action would get passed the following arguments, in addition to the normal action constructor arguments, when it is instantiated:

  (globalarg1 => 'hello', globalarg2 => 'goodbye', customarg => 'arg1')

METHODS

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BUILDARGS ($app, @args)

From Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute, stashes the application instance as $self->_application.

$self->action_for('name')

Returns the Catalyst::Action object (if any) for a given method name in this component.

$self->action_namespace($c)

Returns the private namespace for actions in this component. Defaults to a value from the controller name (for e.g. MyApp::Controller::Foo::Bar becomes "foo/bar") or can be overridden from the "namespace" config key.

$self->path_prefix($c)

Returns the default path prefix for :PathPrefix, :Local, :LocalRegex and relative :Path actions in this component. Defaults to the action_namespace or can be overridden from the "path" config key.

$self->register_actions($c)

Finds all applicable actions for this component, creates Catalyst::Action objects (using $self->create_action) for them and registers them with $c->dispatcher.

$self->get_action_methods()

Returns a list of Moose::Meta::Method objects, doing the MooseX::MethodAttributes::Role::Meta::Method role, which are the set of action methods for this package.

$self->register_action_methods($c, @methods)

Creates action objects for a set of action methods using create_action , and registers them with the dispatcher.

$self->action_class(%args)

Used when a controller is creating an action to determine the correct base action class to use.

$self->create_action(%args)

Called with a hash of data to be use for construction of a new Catalyst::Action (or appropriate sub/alternative class) object.

$self->_application

$self->_app

Returns the application instance stored by new()

AUTHORS

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Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm

COPYRIGHT

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Catalyst-Runtime documentation Contained in the Catalyst-Runtime distribution.
package Catalyst::Controller;

use Moose;
use Moose::Util qw/find_meta/;
use List::MoreUtils qw/uniq/;
use namespace::clean -except => 'meta';

BEGIN { extends qw/Catalyst::Component MooseX::MethodAttributes::Inheritable/; }

use MooseX::MethodAttributes;
use Catalyst::Exception;
use Catalyst::Utils;

with 'Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute';

has path_prefix =>
    (
     is => 'rw',
     isa => 'Str',
     init_arg => 'path',
     predicate => 'has_path_prefix',
    );

has action_namespace =>
    (
     is => 'rw',
     isa => 'Str',
     init_arg => 'namespace',
     predicate => 'has_action_namespace',
    );

has actions =>
    (
     accessor => '_controller_actions',
     isa => 'HashRef',
     init_arg => undef,
    );

sub BUILD {
    my ($self, $args) = @_;
    my $action  = delete $args->{action}  || {};
    my $actions = delete $args->{actions} || {};
    my $attr_value = $self->merge_config_hashes($actions, $action);
    $self->_controller_actions($attr_value);
}



#I think both of these could be attributes. doesn't really seem like they need
#to ble class data. i think that attributes +default would work just fine
__PACKAGE__->mk_classdata($_) for qw/_dispatch_steps _action_class/;

__PACKAGE__->_dispatch_steps( [qw/_BEGIN _AUTO _ACTION/] );
__PACKAGE__->_action_class('Catalyst::Action');


sub _DISPATCH : Private {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;

    foreach my $disp ( @{ $self->_dispatch_steps } ) {
        last unless $c->forward($disp);
    }

    $c->forward('_END');
}

sub _BEGIN : Private {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    my $begin = ( $c->get_actions( 'begin', $c->namespace ) )[-1];
    return 1 unless $begin;
    $begin->dispatch( $c );
    return !@{ $c->error };
}

sub _AUTO : Private {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    my @auto = $c->get_actions( 'auto', $c->namespace );
    foreach my $auto (@auto) {
        $auto->dispatch( $c );
        return 0 unless $c->state;
    }
    return 1;
}

sub _ACTION : Private {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    if (   ref $c->action
        && $c->action->can('execute')
        && defined $c->req->action )
    {
        $c->action->dispatch( $c );
    }
    return !@{ $c->error };
}

sub _END : Private {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    my $end = ( $c->get_actions( 'end', $c->namespace ) )[-1];
    return 1 unless $end;
    $end->dispatch( $c );
    return !@{ $c->error };
}

sub action_for {
    my ( $self, $name ) = @_;
    my $app = ($self->isa('Catalyst') ? $self : $self->_application);
    return $app->dispatcher->get_action($name, $self->action_namespace);
}

#my opinion is that this whole sub really should be a builder method, not
#something that happens on every call. Anyone else disagree?? -- groditi
## -- apparently this is all just waiting for app/ctx split
around action_namespace => sub {
    my $orig = shift;
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;

    my $class = ref($self) || $self;
    my $appclass = ref($c) || $c;
    if( ref($self) ){
        return $self->$orig if $self->has_action_namespace;
    } else {
        return $class->config->{namespace} if exists $class->config->{namespace};
    }

    my $case_s;
    if( $c ){
        $case_s = $appclass->config->{case_sensitive};
    } else {
        if ($self->isa('Catalyst')) {
            $case_s = $class->config->{case_sensitive};
        } else {
            if (ref $self) {
                $case_s = ref($self->_application)->config->{case_sensitive};
            } else {
                confess("Can't figure out case_sensitive setting");
            }
        }
    }

    my $namespace = Catalyst::Utils::class2prefix($self->catalyst_component_name, $case_s) || '';
    $self->$orig($namespace) if ref($self);
    return $namespace;
};

#Once again, this is probably better written as a builder method
around path_prefix => sub {
    my $orig = shift;
    my $self = shift;
    if( ref($self) ){
      return $self->$orig if $self->has_path_prefix;
    } else {
      return $self->config->{path} if exists $self->config->{path};
    }
    my $namespace = $self->action_namespace(@_);
    $self->$orig($namespace) if ref($self);
    return $namespace;
};

sub get_action_methods {
    my $self = shift;
    my $meta = find_meta($self) || confess("No metaclass setup for $self");
    confess("Metaclass "
          . ref($meta) . " for "
          . $meta->name
          . " cannot support register_actions." )
      unless $meta->can('get_nearest_methods_with_attributes');
    my @methods = $meta->get_nearest_methods_with_attributes;

    # actions specified via config are also action_methods
    push(
        @methods,
        map {
            $meta->find_method_by_name($_)
              || confess( 'Action "'
                  . $_
                  . '" is not available from controller '
                  . ( ref $self ) )
          } keys %{ $self->_controller_actions }
    ) if ( ref $self );
    return uniq @methods;
}


sub register_actions {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    $self->register_action_methods( $c, $self->get_action_methods );
}

sub register_action_methods {
    my ( $self, $c, @methods ) = @_;
    my $class = $self->catalyst_component_name;
    #this is still not correct for some reason.
    my $namespace = $self->action_namespace($c);

    # FIXME - fugly
    if (!blessed($self) && $self eq $c && scalar(@methods)) {
        my @really_bad_methods = grep { ! /^_(DISPATCH|BEGIN|AUTO|ACTION|END)$/ } map { $_->name } @methods;
        if (scalar(@really_bad_methods)) {
            $c->log->warn("Action methods (" . join(', ', @really_bad_methods) . ") found defined in your application class, $self. This is deprecated, please move them into a Root controller.");
        }
    }

    foreach my $method (@methods) {
        my $name = $method->name;
        # Horrible hack! All method metaclasses should have an attributes
        # method, core Moose bug - see r13354.
        my $attributes = $method->can('attributes') ? $method->attributes : [];
        my $attrs = $self->_parse_attrs( $c, $name, @{ $attributes } );
        if ( $attrs->{Private} && ( keys %$attrs > 1 ) ) {
            $c->log->debug( 'Bad action definition "'
                  . join( ' ', @{ $attributes } )
                  . qq/" for "$class->$name"/ )
              if $c->debug;
            next;
        }
        my $reverse = $namespace ? "${namespace}/${name}" : $name;
        my $action = $self->create_action(
            name       => $name,
            code       => $method->body,
            reverse    => $reverse,
            namespace  => $namespace,
            class      => $class,
            attributes => $attrs,
        );

        $c->dispatcher->register( $c, $action );
    }
}

sub action_class {
    my $self = shift;
    my %args = @_;

    my $class = (exists $args{attributes}{ActionClass}
        ? $args{attributes}{ActionClass}[0]
        : $self->_action_class);

    Class::MOP::load_class($class);
    return $class;
}

sub create_action {
    my $self = shift;
    my %args = @_;

    my $class = $self->action_class(%args);
    my $action_args = $self->config->{action_args};

    my %extra_args = (
        %{ $action_args->{'*'}           || {} },
        %{ $action_args->{ $args{name} } || {} },
    );

    return $class->new({ %extra_args, %args });
}

sub _parse_attrs {
    my ( $self, $c, $name, @attrs ) = @_;

    my %raw_attributes;

    foreach my $attr (@attrs) {

        # Parse out :Foo(bar) into Foo => bar etc (and arrayify)

        if ( my ( $key, $value ) = ( $attr =~ /^(.*?)(?:\(\s*(.+?)\s*\))?$/ ) )
        {

            if ( defined $value ) {
                ( $value =~ s/^'(.*)'$/$1/ ) || ( $value =~ s/^"(.*)"/$1/ );
            }
            push( @{ $raw_attributes{$key} }, $value );
        }
    }

    #I know that the original behavior was to ignore action if actions was set
    # but i actually think this may be a little more sane? we can always remove
    # the merge behavior quite easily and go back to having actions have
    # presedence over action by modifying the keys. i honestly think this is
    # superior while mantaining really high degree of compat
    my $actions;
    if( ref($self) ) {
        $actions = $self->_controller_actions;
    } else {
        my $cfg = $self->config;
        $actions = $self->merge_config_hashes($cfg->{actions}, $cfg->{action});
    }

    %raw_attributes = ((exists $actions->{'*'} ? %{$actions->{'*'}} : ()),
                       %raw_attributes,
                       (exists $actions->{$name} ? %{$actions->{$name}} : ()));


    my %final_attributes;

    foreach my $key (keys %raw_attributes) {

        my $raw = $raw_attributes{$key};

        foreach my $value (ref($raw) eq 'ARRAY' ? @$raw : $raw) {

            my $meth = "_parse_${key}_attr";
            if ( my $code = $self->can($meth) ) {
                ( $key, $value ) = $self->$code( $c, $name, $value );
            }
            push( @{ $final_attributes{$key} }, $value );
        }
    }

    return \%final_attributes;
}

sub _parse_Global_attr {
    my ( $self, $c, $name, $value ) = @_;
    return $self->_parse_Path_attr( $c, $name, "/$name" );
}

sub _parse_Absolute_attr { shift->_parse_Global_attr(@_); }

sub _parse_Local_attr {
    my ( $self, $c, $name, $value ) = @_;
    return $self->_parse_Path_attr( $c, $name, $name );
}

sub _parse_Relative_attr { shift->_parse_Local_attr(@_); }

sub _parse_Path_attr {
    my ( $self, $c, $name, $value ) = @_;
    $value = '' if !defined $value;
    if ( $value =~ m!^/! ) {
        return ( 'Path', $value );
    }
    elsif ( length $value ) {
        return ( 'Path', join( '/', $self->path_prefix($c), $value ) );
    }
    else {
        return ( 'Path', $self->path_prefix($c) );
    }
}

sub _parse_Regex_attr {
    my ( $self, $c, $name, $value ) = @_;
    return ( 'Regex', $value );
}

sub _parse_Regexp_attr { shift->_parse_Regex_attr(@_); }

sub _parse_LocalRegex_attr {
    my ( $self, $c, $name, $value ) = @_;
    unless ( $value =~ s/^\^// ) { $value = "(?:.*?)$value"; }

    my $prefix = $self->path_prefix( $c );
    $prefix .= '/' if length( $prefix );

    return ( 'Regex', "^${prefix}${value}" );
}

sub _parse_LocalRegexp_attr { shift->_parse_LocalRegex_attr(@_); }

sub _parse_Chained_attr {
    my ($self, $c, $name, $value) = @_;

    if (defined($value) && length($value)) {
        if ($value eq '.') {
            $value = '/'.$self->action_namespace($c);
        } elsif (my ($rel, $rest) = $value =~ /^((?:\.{2}\/)+)(.*)$/) {
            my @parts = split '/', $self->action_namespace($c);
            my @levels = split '/', $rel;

            $value = '/'.join('/', @parts[0 .. $#parts - @levels], $rest);
        } elsif ($value !~ m/^\//) {
            my $action_ns = $self->action_namespace($c);

            if ($action_ns) {
                $value = '/'.join('/', $action_ns, $value);
            } else {
                $value = '/'.$value; # special case namespace '' (root)
            }
        }
    } else {
        $value = '/'
    }

    return Chained => $value;
}

sub _parse_ChainedParent_attr {
    my ($self, $c, $name, $value) = @_;
    return $self->_parse_Chained_attr($c, $name, '../'.$name);
}

sub _parse_PathPrefix_attr {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    return PathPart => $self->path_prefix($c);
}

sub _parse_ActionClass_attr {
    my ( $self, $c, $name, $value ) = @_;
    my $appname = $self->_application;
    $value = Catalyst::Utils::resolve_namespace($appname . '::Action', $self->_action_class, $value);
    return ( 'ActionClass', $value );
}

sub _parse_MyAction_attr {
    my ( $self, $c, $name, $value ) = @_;

    my $appclass = Catalyst::Utils::class2appclass($self);
    $value = "${appclass}::Action::${value}";

    return ( 'ActionClass', $value );
}

__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;

1;

__END__