From: Arthur Axel 'fREW' Schmidt <frioux@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:11:24 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Doc, Changelog, Attribution
X-Git-Tag: 0.77~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=catagits%2FCatalyst-Action-REST.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ee2437628b1e4fce9569967577eb356ae12ea01

Doc, Changelog, Attribution
---

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 3af8865..31ddb85 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+  Allow dispatching to Catalyst Actions, for use with ActionClasses
+  etc - fREW
+
   Fix test if CATALYST_DEBUG environment variable is set
 
 Fri Aug 21 21:20:52 BST 2009 (t0m) - Release 0.76
@@ -84,7 +87,7 @@ Thu Jan  3 17:23:58 PST 2008 (adam) - Release 0.60
   Updated my contact information.
   Prepped for release.
 
-Thu Jan  3 19:42:16 EST 2008 
+Thu Jan  3 19:42:16 EST 2008
 	Fixed RT#30498 - REST controller references Catalyst without
 	  loading it first.
 	Fixed RT#32042 - Import of Params::Validate :all plays badly
@@ -95,7 +98,7 @@ Thu Jan  3 08:54:09 PST 2008
 	Fixed an issue where YAML::Syck versions 0.92 require $c->request->body to
 	  be stringified
 
-Fri Dec 21 15:23:46 EDT 2007 
+Fri Dec 21 15:23:46 EDT 2007
 	Updated the configuration specifiers to operate more in line with the way
 	Catalyst expects.  Most notably component based configuration through
 	"Controller::RestClass" now works.  "serialize" at the top level simply
diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/Action/REST.pm b/lib/Catalyst/Action/REST.pm
index f4e0a2f..87ba05f 100644
--- a/lib/Catalyst/Action/REST.pm
+++ b/lib/Catalyst/Action/REST.pm
@@ -41,15 +41,18 @@ Catalyst::Action::REST - Automated REST Method Dispatching
       ... do something for GET requests ...
     }
 
-    sub foo_PUT {
-      ... do somethign for PUT requests ...
+    # alternatively use an Action
+    sub foo_PUT : Private {
+      ... do something for PUT requests ...
     }
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 This Action handles doing automatic method dispatching for REST requests.  It
 takes a normal Catalyst action, and changes the dispatch to append an
-underscore and method name.
+underscore and method name.  First it will try dispatching to an action with
+the generated name, and failing that it will try to dispatch to a regular
+method.
 
 For example, in the synopsis above, calling GET on "/foo" would result in
 the foo_GET method being dispatched.
@@ -190,6 +193,8 @@ for this to run smoothly.
 
 =head1 CONTRIBUTORS
 
+Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt <frioux@gmail.com>
+
 Christopher Laco
 
 Luke Saunders