package Catalyst::View;
-use strict;
-use base qw/Catalyst::Component/;
+use Moose;
+extends qw/Catalyst::Component/;
=head1 NAME
=head1 SYNOPSIS
-See L<Catalyst>.
+ package Catalyst::View::Homebrew;
+
+ use base qw/Catalyst::View/;
+
+ sub process {
+ # template processing goes here.
+ }
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-Catalyst View base class.
+This is the Catalyst View base class. It's meant to be used as
+a base class by Catalyst views.
+
+As a convention, views are expected to read template names from
+$c->stash->{template}, and put the output into $c->res->body.
+Some views default to render a template named after the dispatched
+action's private name. (See L<Catalyst::Action>.)
+
+=head1 METHODS
-=head1 AUTHOR
+Implements the same methods as other Catalyst components, see
+L<Catalyst::Component>
-Sebastian Riedel, C<sri@oook.de>
+=head2 process
+
+gives an error message about direct use.
+
+=cut
+
+sub process {
+
+ Catalyst::Exception->throw( message => ( ref $_[0] || $_[0] ).
+ " directly inherits from Catalyst::View. You need to\n".
+ " inherit from a subclass like Catalyst::View::TT instead.\n" );
+
+}
+
+=head1 AUTHORS
+
+Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm
=head1 COPYRIGHT
-This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
=cut
+no Moose;
+__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable();
+
1;