=item 9
-L<Appendices|Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::Appendicies>
+L<Appendices|Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::Appendices>
=back
pulled from the Catalyst Subversion repository in one step with the
following command:
- svn checkout http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/Tutorial@###
- IMPORTANT: Does not work yet. Will be completed for final version.
+ svn co http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/tags/examples/Tutorial/MyApp/5.7/Authentication MyApp
=head1 BASIC AUTHENTICATION
=head2 Include Authentication and Session Plugins
-Edit C<lib/MyApp.pm> and update it as follows (everything below C<DefaultEnd> is new):
+Edit C<lib/MyApp.pm> and update it as follows (everything below C<StackTrace> is new):
use Catalyst qw/
-Debug
Static::Simple
StackTrace
- DefaultEnd
Authentication
Authentication::Store::DBIC
actions. Remember, Catalyst is designed to be very flexible, and leaves
such matters up to you, the designer and programmer.
-Then open C<lib/MyApp/Controller/Login.pm> and add:
+Then open C<lib/MyApp/Controller/Login.pm>, locate the C<sub index :
+Private> method (this was automatically inserted by the helpers when we
+created the Login controller above), and delete this line:
- =head2 base
+ $c->response->body('Matched MyApp::Controller::Login in Login.');
+
+Then update it to match:
+
+ =head2 index
Login logic
=cut
- sub base :Path :Args(0) {
+ sub index : Private {
my ($self, $c) = @_;
# Get the username and password from form
C<password> values are not present in the form, the user will be taken
to the empty login form.
-We are using C<sub base :Path :Args(0) {...}> here to specifically match
-the URL C</login>. C<Path> actions (aka, "literal actions") create URI
-matches relative to the namespace of the controller where they are defined.
-Although C<Path> supports arguments that allow relative and absolute paths
-to be defined, here we use an empty C<Path> definition to match on just the
-name of the controller itself. The method name, C<base>, is arbitrary.
-We make the match even more specific with the C<:Args(0)> action modifier
--- this forces the match on I<only> C</login>, not C</login/somethingelse>.
-
Note that we could have used something like C<sub default :Private>;
however, the use of C<default> actions is discouraged because it does
not receive path args as with other actions. The recommended practice
is to only use C<default> in C<MyApp::Controller::Root>.
-Next, create a corresponding method in C<lib/MyApp/Controller/Logout.pm>:
+Another option would be to use something like
+C<sub base :Path :Args(0) {...}> (where the C<...> refers to the login
+code shown in C<sub index : Private> above). We are using C<sub base
+:Path :Args(0) {...}> here to specifically match the URL C</login>.
+C<Path> actions (aka, "literal actions") create URI matches relative to
+the namespace of the controller where they are defined. Although
+C<Path> supports arguments that allow relative and absolute paths to be
+defined, here we use an empty C<Path> definition to match on just the
+name of the controller itself. The method name, C<base>, is arbitrary.
+We make the match even more specific with the C<:Args(0)> action
+modifier -- this forces the match on I<only> C</login>, not
+C</login/somethingelse>.
+
+Next, update the corresponding method in C<lib/MyApp/Controller/Logout.pm>
+to match:
- =head2 base
+ =head2 index
Logout logic
=cut
- sub base :Path :Args(0) {
+ sub index : Private {
my ($self, $c) = @_;
# Clear the user's state
$c->response->redirect($c->uri_for('/'));
}
-Note that we are using the same C<sub base :Path :Args(0) {...}> style
-of action as with the login logic.
+As with the login controller, be sure to delete the
+C<$c->response->body('Matched MyApp::Controller::Logout in Logout.');>
+line of the C<sub index>.
=head2 Add a Login Form TT Template Page
sub auto : Private {
my ($self, $c) = @_;
- # Allow unauthenticated users to reach the login page
- if ($c->request->path =~ /login/) {
+ # Allow unauthenticated users to reach the login page. This
+ # allows anauthenticated users to reach any action in the Login
+ # controller. To lock it down to a single action, we could use:
+ # if ($c->action eq $c->controller('Login')->action_for('index'))
+ # to only allow unauthenticated access to the C<index> action we
+ # added above.
+ if ($c->controller eq $c->controller('Login')) {
return 1;
}
<a href="[% Catalyst.uri_for('form_create') %]">Create</a>
</p>
-Reload your browser and you should now see a "Login" and "Create" links
-at the bottom of the page (as mentioned earlier, you can update
-template files without reloading the development server). Click this
-link to return to the login page. This time you I<should> see the
-"You are already logged in" message.
+Reload your browser and you should now see a "Login" and "Create" links
+at the bottom of the page (as mentioned earlier, you can update template
+files without reloading the development server). Click the first link
+to return to the login page. This time you I<should> see the "You are
+already logged in" message.
Finally, click the C<You can logout here> link on the C</login> page.
You should stay at the login page, but the message should change to "You
# This is the model object created by Catalyst::Model::DBIC from your
# schema (you created 'MyAppDB::User' but as the Catalyst startup
# debug messages show, it was loaded as 'MyApp::Model::MyAppDB::User').
- # NOTE: Omit 'MyApp::Model' to avoid a component lookup issue in Catalyst 5.66
+ # NOTE: Omit 'MyApp::Model' here just as you would when using
+ # '$c->model("MyAppDB::User)'
user_class: MyAppDB::User
# This is the name of the field in your 'users' table that contains the user's name
user_field: username
login as before. When done, click the "Logout" link on the login page
(or point your browser at L<http://localhost:3000/logout>).
+B<Note:> If you receive the debug screen in your browser with a
+C<Can't call method "stash" on an undefined value...> error message,
+make sure that you are using v0.07 of
+L<Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL|Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL>.
+The following command can be a useful way to quickly dump the version number
+of this module on your system:
+
+ perl -MCatalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL -e 'print $Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::ACL::VERSION, "\n";'
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Kennedy Clark, C<hkclark@gmail.com>
Please report any errors, issues or suggestions to the author. The
-most recent version of the Catlayst Tutorial can be found at
+most recent version of the Catalyst Tutorial can be found at
L<http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/Catalyst-Runtime/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial/>.
Copyright 2006, Kennedy Clark, under Creative Commons License