1 package Catalyst::Action;
5 Catalyst::Action - Catalyst Action
9 <form action="[%c.uri_for(c.action.reverse)%]">
13 This class represents a Catalyst Action. You can access the object for the
14 currently dispatched action via $c->action. See the L<Catalyst::Dispatcher>
15 for more information on how actions are dispatched. Actions are defined in
16 L<Catalyst::Controller> subclasses.
22 has class => (is => 'rw');
23 has namespace => (is => 'rw');
24 has 'reverse' => (is => 'rw');
25 has attributes => (is => 'rw');
26 has name => (is => 'rw');
27 has code => (is => 'rw');
31 no warnings 'recursion';
33 #__PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(qw/class namespace reverse attributes name code/);
35 sub dispatch { # Execute ourselves against a context
36 my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
37 #Moose todo: grrrrrr. this is no good. i don't know enough about it to
38 # debug it though. why can't we just call the accessor?
39 #local $c->{namespace} = $self->namespace;
40 #return $c->execute( $self->class, $self );
42 #believed to be equivalent:
43 my $orig = $c->namespace;
44 $c->namespace($self->namespace);
45 my $ret = $c->execute( $self->class, $self );
56 my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
57 #would it be unreasonable to store the number of arguments
58 #the action has as it's own attribute?
59 #it would basically eliminate the code below. ehhh. small fish
60 return 1 unless exists $self->attributes->{Args};
61 my $args = $self->attributes->{Args}[0];
62 return 1 unless defined($args) && length($args);
63 return scalar( @{ $c->req->args } ) == $args;
66 __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
76 The sub attributes that are set for this action, like Local, Path, Private
77 and so on. This determines how the action is dispatched to.
81 Returns the class name where this action is defined.
85 Returns a code reference to this action.
89 Dispatch this action against a context
91 =head2 execute( $controller, $c, @args )
93 Execute this action's coderef against a given controller with a given
98 Check Args attribute, and makes sure number of args matches the setting.
99 Always returns true if Args is omitted.
103 Returns the private namespace this action lives in.
107 Returns the private path for this action.
111 returns the sub name of this action.
123 This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
124 the same terms as Perl itself.