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5882c86e 1package Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained;
141459fa 2
3c0186f2 3use Moose;
e8b9f2a9 4extends 'Catalyst::DispatchType';
5
141459fa 6use Text::SimpleTable;
7use Catalyst::ActionChain;
39fc2ce1 8use Catalyst::Utils;
141459fa 9use URI;
dd97c1ac 10use Scalar::Util ();
0ca510f0 11use Encode 2.21 'decode_utf8';
141459fa 12
be5cb4e4 13has _endpoints => (
14 is => 'rw',
15 isa => 'ArrayRef',
16 required => 1,
17 default => sub{ [] },
18 );
19
20has _actions => (
21 is => 'rw',
22 isa => 'HashRef',
23 required => 1,
24 default => sub{ {} },
25 );
26
27has _children_of => (
28 is => 'rw',
29 isa => 'HashRef',
30 required => 1,
31 default => sub{ {} },
32 );
33
0fc2d522 34no Moose;
35
792b40ac 36# please don't perltidy this. hairy code within.
37
141459fa 38=head1 NAME
39
5882c86e 40Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained - Path Part DispatchType
141459fa 41
42=head1 SYNOPSIS
43
26dc649a 44Path part matching, allowing several actions to sequentially take care of processing a request:
45
05a90578 46 # root action - captures one argument after it
47 sub foo_setup : Chained('/') PathPart('foo') CaptureArgs(1) {
48 my ( $self, $c, $foo_arg ) = @_;
49 ...
50 }
51
52 # child action endpoint - takes one argument
53 sub bar : Chained('foo_setup') Args(1) {
54 my ( $self, $c, $bar_arg ) = @_;
55 ...
56 }
141459fa 57
58=head1 DESCRIPTION
59
26dc649a 60Dispatch type managing default behaviour. For more information on
61dispatch types, see:
62
63=over 4
64
b9b89145 65=item * L<Catalyst::Manual::Intro> for how they affect application authors
26dc649a 66
67=item * L<Catalyst::DispatchType> for implementation information.
68
69=back
05a90578 70
141459fa 71=head1 METHODS
72
73=head2 $self->list($c)
74
75Debug output for Path Part dispatch points
76
141459fa 77=cut
78
792b40ac 79sub list {
80 my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
81
be5cb4e4 82 return unless $self->_endpoints;
792b40ac 83
48d435ba 84 my $avail_width = Catalyst::Utils::term_width() - 9;
85 my $col1_width = ($avail_width * .50) < 35 ? 35 : int($avail_width * .50);
86 my $col2_width = $avail_width - $col1_width;
792b40ac 87 my $paths = Text::SimpleTable->new(
48d435ba 88 [ $col1_width, 'Path Spec' ], [ $col2_width, 'Private' ],
39fc2ce1 89 );
792b40ac 90
007a7ca0 91 my $has_unattached_actions;
92 my $unattached_actions = Text::SimpleTable->new(
48d435ba 93 [ $col1_width, 'Private' ], [ $col2_width, 'Missing parent' ],
007a7ca0 94 );
95
792b40ac 96 ENDPOINT: foreach my $endpoint (
97 sort { $a->reverse cmp $b->reverse }
be5cb4e4 98 @{ $self->_endpoints }
792b40ac 99 ) {
ffca3e96 100 my $args = $endpoint->list_extra_info->{Args};
79b7db20 101 my @parts = (defined($endpoint->attributes->{Args}[0]) ? (("*") x $args) : '...');
d34667c3 102 my @parents = ();
792b40ac 103 my $parent = "DUMMY";
ba3f8a81 104 my $extra = $self->_list_extra_http_methods($endpoint);
e72a3cd6 105 my $consumes = $self->_list_extra_consumes($endpoint);
342d2169 106 my $scheme = $self->_list_extra_scheme($endpoint);
792b40ac 107 my $curr = $endpoint;
108 while ($curr) {
ffca3e96 109 if (my $cap = $curr->list_extra_info->{CaptureArgs}) {
110 unshift(@parts, (("*") x $cap));
792b40ac 111 }
77771155 112 if (my $pp = $curr->attributes->{PathPart}) {
792b40ac 113 unshift(@parts, $pp->[0])
114 if (defined $pp->[0] && length $pp->[0]);
115 }
5882c86e 116 $parent = $curr->attributes->{Chained}->[0];
be5cb4e4 117 $curr = $self->_actions->{$parent};
d34667c3 118 unshift(@parents, $curr) if $curr;
792b40ac 119 }
007a7ca0 120 if ($parent ne '/') {
121 $has_unattached_actions = 1;
59d5a638 122 $unattached_actions->row('/' . ($parents[0] || $endpoint)->reverse, $parent);
007a7ca0 123 next ENDPOINT;
124 }
d34667c3 125 my @rows;
126 foreach my $p (@parents) {
127 my $name = "/${p}";
ba3f8a81 128
129 if (defined(my $extra = $self->_list_extra_http_methods($p))) {
130 $name = "${extra} ${name}";
131 }
ffca3e96 132 if (defined(my $cap = $p->list_extra_info->{CaptureArgs})) {
90102012 133 if($p->has_captures_constraints) {
134 my $tc = join ',', @{$p->captures_constraints};
135 $name .= " ($tc)";
136 } else {
137 $name .= " ($cap)";
138 }
d34667c3 139 }
e72a3cd6 140 if (defined(my $ct = $p->list_extra_info->{Consumes})) {
141 $name .= ' :'.$ct;
142 }
342d2169 143 if (defined(my $s = $p->list_extra_info->{Scheme})) {
144 $scheme = uc $s;
145 }
e72a3cd6 146
d34667c3 147 unless ($p eq $parents[0]) {
148 $name = "-> ${name}";
149 }
150 push(@rows, [ '', $name ]);
151 }
90102012 152
79b7db20 153 if($endpoint->has_args_constraints) {
154 my $tc = join ',', @{$endpoint->args_constraints};
155 $endpoint .= " ($tc)";
156 } else {
157 $endpoint .= defined($endpoint->attributes->{Args}[0]) ? " ($args)" : " (...)";
90102012 158 }
342d2169 159 push(@rows, [ '', (@rows ? "=> " : '').($extra ? "$extra " : ''). ($scheme ? "$scheme: ":'')."/${endpoint}". ($consumes ? " :$consumes":"" ) ]);
0ca510f0 160 my @display_parts = map { $_ =~s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg; decode_utf8 $_ } @parts;
161 $rows[0][0] = join('/', '', @display_parts) || '/';
d34667c3 162 $paths->row(@$_) for @rows;
792b40ac 163 }
164
1cf0345b 165 $c->log->debug( "Loaded Chained actions:\n" . $paths->draw . "\n" );
007a7ca0 166 $c->log->debug( "Unattached Chained actions:\n", $unattached_actions->draw . "\n" )
167 if $has_unattached_actions;
792b40ac 168}
141459fa 169
ba3f8a81 170sub _list_extra_http_methods {
171 my ( $self, $action ) = @_;
172 return unless defined $action->list_extra_info->{HTTP_METHODS};
173 return join(', ', @{$action->list_extra_info->{HTTP_METHODS}});
e72a3cd6 174
ba3f8a81 175}
176
e72a3cd6 177sub _list_extra_consumes {
178 my ( $self, $action ) = @_;
179 return unless defined $action->list_extra_info->{CONSUMES};
180 return join(', ', @{$action->list_extra_info->{CONSUMES}});
181}
182
342d2169 183sub _list_extra_scheme {
184 my ( $self, $action ) = @_;
185 return unless defined $action->list_extra_info->{Scheme};
186 return uc $action->list_extra_info->{Scheme};
187}
e72a3cd6 188
141459fa 189=head2 $self->match( $c, $path )
190
05a90578 191Calls C<recurse_match> to see if a chain matches the C<$path>.
141459fa 192
193=cut
194
195sub match {
196 my ( $self, $c, $path ) = @_;
197
e5ecd5bc 198 my $request = $c->request;
199 return 0 if @{$request->args};
141459fa 200
201 my @parts = split('/', $path);
202
6365b527 203 my ($chain, $captures, $parts) = $self->recurse_match($c, '/', \@parts);
634780e0 204
205 if ($parts && @$parts) {
206 for my $arg (@$parts) {
207 $arg =~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg;
208 push @{$request->args}, $arg;
209 }
210 }
141459fa 211
212 return 0 unless $chain;
213
214 my $action = Catalyst::ActionChain->from_chain($chain);
215
e5ecd5bc 216 $request->action("/${action}");
217 $request->match("/${action}");
218 $request->captures($captures);
141459fa 219 $c->action($action);
220 $c->namespace( $action->namespace );
221
222 return 1;
223}
224
225=head2 $self->recurse_match( $c, $parent, \@path_parts )
226
05a90578 227Recursive search for a matching chain.
141459fa 228
229=cut
230
231sub recurse_match {
232 my ( $self, $c, $parent, $path_parts ) = @_;
be5cb4e4 233 my $children = $self->_children_of->{$parent};
141459fa 234 return () unless $children;
6b495723 235 my $best_action;
141459fa 236 my @captures;
1b04b972 237 TRY: foreach my $try_part (sort { length($b) <=> length($a) }
cdc97b63 238 keys %$children) {
1b04b972 239 # $b then $a to try longest part first
141459fa 240 my @parts = @$path_parts;
241 if (length $try_part) { # test and strip PathPart
242 next TRY unless
243 ($try_part eq join('/', # assemble equal number of parts
244 splice( # and strip them off @parts as well
792b40ac 245 @parts, 0, scalar(@{[split('/', $try_part)]})
246 ))); # @{[]} to avoid split to @_
141459fa 247 }
248 my @try_actions = @{$children->{$try_part}};
249 TRY_ACTION: foreach my $action (@try_actions) {
1c34f703 250 if (my $capture_attr = $action->attributes->{CaptureArgs}) {
a82c96cf 251 my $capture_count = $action->number_of_captures|| 0;
f505df49 252
253 # Short-circuit if not enough remaining parts
3f91cb25 254 next TRY_ACTION unless @parts >= $capture_count;
f505df49 255
141459fa 256 my @captures;
257 my @parts = @parts; # localise
7a7ac23c 258
1c34f703 259 # strip CaptureArgs into list
3f91cb25 260 push(@captures, splice(@parts, 0, $capture_count));
7a7ac23c 261
1279064a 262 # check if the action may fit, depending on a given test by the app
a82c96cf 263 next TRY_ACTION unless $action->match_captures($c, \@captures);
1279064a 264
141459fa 265 # try the remaining parts against children of this action
0c78acb6 266 my ($actions, $captures, $action_parts, $n_pathparts) = $self->recurse_match(
141459fa 267 $c, '/'.$action->reverse, \@parts
268 );
2f381252 269 # No best action currently
270 # OR The action has less parts
271 # OR The action has equal parts but less captured data (ergo more defined)
272 if ($actions &&
273 (!$best_action ||
f4dbb497 274 $#$action_parts < $#{$best_action->{parts}} ||
2f381252 275 ($#$action_parts == $#{$best_action->{parts}} &&
0c78acb6 276 $#$captures < $#{$best_action->{captures}} &&
277 $n_pathparts > $best_action->{n_pathparts}))) {
278 my @pathparts = split /\//, $action->attributes->{PathPart}->[0];
6b495723 279 $best_action = {
280 actions => [ $action, @$actions ],
281 captures=> [ @captures, @$captures ],
0c78acb6 282 parts => $action_parts,
283 n_pathparts => scalar(@pathparts) + $n_pathparts,
284 };
6b495723 285 }
286 }
287 else {
7a7ac23c 288 {
289 local $c->req->{arguments} = [ @{$c->req->args}, @parts ];
290 next TRY_ACTION unless $action->match($c);
291 }
5c6d829d 292 my $args_attr = $action->attributes->{Args}->[0];
0c78acb6 293 my @pathparts = split /\//, $action->attributes->{PathPart}->[0];
953c176d 294 # No best action currently
295 # OR This one matches with fewer parts left than the current best action,
296 # And therefore is a better match
b0ad47c1 297 # OR No parts and this expects 0
953c176d 298 # The current best action might also be Args(0),
299 # but we couldn't chose between then anyway so we'll take the last seen
300
301 if (!$best_action ||
302 @parts < @{$best_action->{parts}} ||
a53e36d1 303 (!@parts && defined($args_attr) && $args_attr eq "0")){
6b495723 304 $best_action = {
305 actions => [ $action ],
306 captures=> [],
0c78acb6 307 parts => \@parts,
308 n_pathparts => scalar(@pathparts),
309 };
953c176d 310 }
141459fa 311 }
312 }
313 }
0c78acb6 314 return @$best_action{qw/actions captures parts n_pathparts/} if $best_action;
141459fa 315 return ();
316}
317
318=head2 $self->register( $c, $action )
319
05a90578 320Calls register_path for every Path attribute for the given $action.
141459fa 321
322=cut
323
324sub register {
325 my ( $self, $c, $action ) = @_;
326
1dc8af44 327 my @chained_attr = @{ $action->attributes->{Chained} || [] };
141459fa 328
1dc8af44 329 return 0 unless @chained_attr;
141459fa 330
2f381252 331 if (@chained_attr > 1) {
141459fa 332 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
5882c86e 333 "Multiple Chained attributes not supported registering ${action}"
141459fa 334 );
335 }
13c6b4cc 336 my $chained_to = $chained_attr[0];
141459fa 337
13c6b4cc 338 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
339 "Actions cannot chain to themselves registering /${action}"
340 ) if ($chained_to eq '/' . $action);
341
342 my $children = ($self->_children_of->{ $chained_to } ||= {});
141459fa 343
344 my @path_part = @{ $action->attributes->{PathPart} || [] };
345
09461385 346 my $part = $action->name;
141459fa 347
09461385 348 if (@path_part == 1 && defined $path_part[0]) {
349 $part = $path_part[0];
141459fa 350 } elsif (@path_part > 1) {
351 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
f3414019 352 "Multiple PathPart attributes not supported registering " . $action->reverse()
141459fa 353 );
354 }
355
8a6a6581 356 if ($part =~ m(^/)) {
357 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
f3414019 358 "Absolute parameters to PathPart not allowed registering " . $action->reverse()
8a6a6581 359 );
360 }
361
0ca510f0 362 my $encoded_part = URI->new($part)->canonical;
363 $encoded_part =~ s{(?<=[^/])/+\z}{};
792b40ac 364
0ca510f0 365 $action->attributes->{PathPart} = [ $encoded_part ];
366
367 unshift(@{ $children->{$encoded_part} ||= [] }, $action);
141459fa 368
be5cb4e4 369 $self->_actions->{'/'.$action->reverse} = $action;
792b40ac 370
2e29aec2 371 if (exists $action->attributes->{Args} and exists $action->attributes->{CaptureArgs}) {
372 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
bc71493a 373 "Combining Args and CaptureArgs attributes not supported registering " .
374 $action->reverse()
2e29aec2 375 );
dd97c1ac 376 }
377
1c34f703 378 unless ($action->attributes->{CaptureArgs}) {
be5cb4e4 379 unshift(@{ $self->_endpoints }, $action);
792b40ac 380 }
381
382 return 1;
141459fa 383}
384
385=head2 $self->uri_for_action($action, $captures)
386
05a90578 387Get the URI part for the action, using C<$captures> to fill
388the capturing parts.
141459fa 389
390=cut
391
392sub uri_for_action {
393 my ( $self, $action, $captures ) = @_;
394
5882c86e 395 return undef unless ($action->attributes->{Chained}
8b13f357 396 && !$action->attributes->{CaptureArgs});
792b40ac 397
398 my @parts = ();
399 my @captures = @$captures;
400 my $parent = "DUMMY";
401 my $curr = $action;
b6847871 402 # If this is an action chain get the last action in the chain
403 if($curr->can('chain') ) {
404 $curr = ${$curr->chain}[-1];
405 }
792b40ac 406 while ($curr) {
b6847871 407 if (my $cap = $curr->number_of_captures) {
408 return undef unless @captures >= $cap; # not enough captures
409 if ($cap) {
410 unshift(@parts, splice(@captures, -$cap));
8b13f357 411 }
792b40ac 412 }
77771155 413 if (my $pp = $curr->attributes->{PathPart}) {
792b40ac 414 unshift(@parts, $pp->[0])
8b13f357 415 if (defined($pp->[0]) && length($pp->[0]));
792b40ac 416 }
5882c86e 417 $parent = $curr->attributes->{Chained}->[0];
be5cb4e4 418 $curr = $self->_actions->{$parent};
141459fa 419 }
792b40ac 420
421 return undef unless $parent eq '/'; # fail for dangling action
422
423 return undef if @captures; # fail for too many captures
424
425 return join('/', '', @parts);
59d5a638 426
141459fa 427}
428
ae0e35ee 429=head2 $c->expand_action($action)
430
b0ad47c1 431Return a list of actions that represents a chained action. See
ae0e35ee 432L<Catalyst::Dispatcher> for more info. You probably want to
433use the expand_action it provides rather than this directly.
434
435=cut
436
52f71256 437sub expand_action {
438 my ($self, $action) = @_;
439
440 return unless $action->attributes && $action->attributes->{Chained};
441
442 my @chain;
443 my $curr = $action;
444
445 while ($curr) {
446 push @chain, $curr;
447 my $parent = $curr->attributes->{Chained}->[0];
448 $curr = $self->_actions->{$parent};
449 }
450
451 return Catalyst::ActionChain->from_chain([reverse @chain]);
452}
453
e5ecd5bc 454__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
f4de8c99 4551;
e5ecd5bc 456
05a90578 457=head1 USAGE
458
459=head2 Introduction
460
461The C<Chained> attribute allows you to chain public path parts together
67869327 462by their private names. A chain part's path can be specified with
463C<PathPart> and can be declared to expect an arbitrary number of
464arguments. The endpoint of the chain specifies how many arguments it
465gets through the C<Args> attribute. C<:Args(0)> would be none at all,
466C<:Args> without an integer would be unlimited. The path parts that
467aren't endpoints are using C<CaptureArgs> to specify how many parameters
468they expect to receive. As an example setup:
05a90578 469
470 package MyApp::Controller::Greeting;
471 use base qw/ Catalyst::Controller /;
472
473 # this is the beginning of our chain
474 sub hello : PathPart('hello') Chained('/') CaptureArgs(1) {
475 my ( $self, $c, $integer ) = @_;
476 $c->stash->{ message } = "Hello ";
477 $c->stash->{ arg_sum } = $integer;
478 }
479
480 # this is our endpoint, because it has no :CaptureArgs
481 sub world : PathPart('world') Chained('hello') Args(1) {
482 my ( $self, $c, $integer ) = @_;
483 $c->stash->{ message } .= "World!";
484 $c->stash->{ arg_sum } += $integer;
485
486 $c->response->body( join "<br/>\n" =>
487 $c->stash->{ message }, $c->stash->{ arg_sum } );
488 }
489
490The debug output provides a separate table for chained actions, showing
67869327 491the whole chain as it would match and the actions it contains. Here's an
492example of the startup output with our actions above:
05a90578 493
494 ...
495 [debug] Loaded Path Part actions:
496 .-----------------------+------------------------------.
497 | Path Spec | Private |
498 +-----------------------+------------------------------+
499 | /hello/*/world/* | /greeting/hello (1) |
500 | | => /greeting/world |
501 '-----------------------+------------------------------'
502 ...
503
67869327 504As you can see, Catalyst only deals with chains as whole paths and
505builds one for each endpoint, which are the actions with C<:Chained> but
506without C<:CaptureArgs>.
05a90578 507
508Let's assume this application gets a request at the path
67869327 509C</hello/23/world/12>. What happens then? First, Catalyst will dispatch
510to the C<hello> action and pass the value C<23> as an argument to it
511after the context. It does so because we have previously used
512C<:CaptureArgs(1)> to declare that it has one path part after itself as
513its argument. We told Catalyst that this is the beginning of the chain
514by specifying C<:Chained('/')>. Also note that instead of saying
515C<:PathPart('hello')> we could also just have said C<:PathPart>, as it
516defaults to the name of the action.
05a90578 517
518After C<hello> has run, Catalyst goes on to dispatch to the C<world>
67869327 519action. This is the last action to be called: Catalyst knows this is an
520endpoint because we did not specify a C<:CaptureArgs>
521attribute. Nevertheless we specify that this action expects an argument,
522but at this point we're using C<:Args(1)> to do that. We could also have
523said C<:Args> or left it out altogether, which would mean this action
524would get all arguments that are there. This action's C<:Chained>
525attribute says C<hello> and tells Catalyst that the C<hello> action in
526the current controller is its parent.
05a90578 527
528With this we have built a chain consisting of two public path parts.
67869327 529C<hello> captures one part of the path as its argument, and also
530specifies the path root as its parent. So this part is
531C</hello/$arg>. The next part is the endpoint C<world>, expecting one
532argument. It sums up to the path part C<world/$arg>. This leads to a
533complete chain of C</hello/$arg/world/$arg> which is matched against the
534requested paths.
535
536This example application would, if run and called by e.g.
537C</hello/23/world/12>, set the stash value C<message> to "Hello" and the
538value C<arg_sum> to "23". The C<world> action would then append "World!"
539to C<message> and add C<12> to the stash's C<arg_sum> value. For the
540sake of simplicity no view is shown. Instead we just put the values of
541the stash into our body. So the output would look like:
05a90578 542
543 Hello World!
544 35
545
67869327 546And our test server would have given us this debugging output for the
05a90578 547request:
548
549 ...
550 [debug] "GET" request for "hello/23/world/12" from "127.0.0.1"
551 [debug] Path is "/greeting/world"
552 [debug] Arguments are "12"
553 [info] Request took 0.164113s (6.093/s)
554 .------------------------------------------+-----------.
555 | Action | Time |
556 +------------------------------------------+-----------+
557 | /greeting/hello | 0.000029s |
558 | /greeting/world | 0.000024s |
559 '------------------------------------------+-----------'
560 ...
561
67869327 562What would be common uses of this dispatch technique? It gives the
563possibility to split up logic that contains steps that each depend on
564each other. An example would be, for example, a wiki path like
05a90578 565C</wiki/FooBarPage/rev/23/view>. This chain can be easily built with
566these actions:
567
568 sub wiki : PathPart('wiki') Chained('/') CaptureArgs(1) {
569 my ( $self, $c, $page_name ) = @_;
570 # load the page named $page_name and put the object
571 # into the stash
572 }
573
574 sub rev : PathPart('rev') Chained('wiki') CaptureArgs(1) {
575 my ( $self, $c, $revision_id ) = @_;
67869327 576 # use the page object in the stash to get at its
05a90578 577 # revision with number $revision_id
578 }
579
580 sub view : PathPart Chained('rev') Args(0) {
581 my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
67869327 582 # display the revision in our stash. Another option
05a90578 583 # would be to forward a compatible object to the action
584 # that displays the default wiki pages, unless we want
585 # a different interface here, for example restore
586 # functionality.
587 }
588
67869327 589It would now be possible to add other endpoints, for example C<restore>
590to restore this specific revision as the current state.
05a90578 591
67869327 592You don't have to put all the chained actions in one controller. The
593specification of the parent through C<:Chained> also takes an absolute
594action path as its argument. Just specify it with a leading C</>.
05a90578 595
596If you want, for example, to have actions for the public paths
67869327 597C</foo/12/edit> and C</foo/12>, just specify two actions with
05a90578 598C<:PathPart('foo')> and C<:Chained('/')>. The handler for the former
67869327 599path needs a C<:CaptureArgs(1)> attribute and a endpoint with
05a90578 600C<:PathPart('edit')> and C<:Chained('foo')>. For the latter path give
601the action just a C<:Args(1)> to mark it as endpoint. This sums up to
602this debugging output:
603
604 ...
605 [debug] Loaded Path Part actions:
606 .-----------------------+------------------------------.
607 | Path Spec | Private |
608 +-----------------------+------------------------------+
609 | /foo/* | /controller/foo_view |
610 | /foo/*/edit | /controller/foo_load (1) |
611 | | => /controller/edit |
612 '-----------------------+------------------------------'
613 ...
614
b0ad47c1 615Here's a more detailed specification of the attributes belonging to
05a90578 616C<:Chained>:
617
618=head2 Attributes
619
620=over 8
621
622=item PathPart
623
624Sets the name of this part of the chain. If it is specified without
625arguments, it takes the name of the action as default. So basically
626C<sub foo :PathPart> and C<sub foo :PathPart('foo')> are identical.
627This can also contain slashes to bind to a deeper level. An action
628with C<sub bar :PathPart('foo/bar') :Chained('/')> would bind to
629C</foo/bar/...>. If you don't specify C<:PathPart> it has the same
630effect as using C<:PathPart>, it would default to the action name.
631
d21a2b27 632=item PathPrefix
633
634Sets PathPart to the path_prefix of the current controller.
635
05a90578 636=item Chained
637
638Has to be specified for every child in the chain. Possible values are
d21a2b27 639absolute and relative private action paths or a single slash C</> to
640tell Catalyst that this is the root of a chain. The attribute
641C<:Chained> without arguments also defaults to the C</> behavior.
642Relative action paths may use C<../> to refer to actions in parent
643controllers.
05a90578 644
67869327 645Because you can specify an absolute path to the parent action, it
646doesn't matter to Catalyst where that parent is located. So, if your
647design requests it, you can redispatch a chain through any controller or
648namespace you want.
05a90578 649
650Another interesting possibility gives C<:Chained('.')>, which chains
67869327 651itself to an action with the path of the current controller's namespace.
05a90578 652For example:
653
654 # in MyApp::Controller::Foo
655 sub bar : Chained CaptureArgs(1) { ... }
656
657 # in MyApp::Controller::Foo::Bar
658 sub baz : Chained('.') Args(1) { ... }
659
660This builds up a chain like C</bar/*/baz/*>. The specification of C<.>
67869327 661as the argument to Chained here chains the C<baz> action to an action
662with the path of the current controller namespace, namely
663C</foo/bar>. That action chains directly to C</>, so the C</bar/*/baz/*>
664chain comes out as the end product.
05a90578 665
d21a2b27 666=item ChainedParent
667
668Chains an action to another action with the same name in the parent
669controller. For Example:
670
671 # in MyApp::Controller::Foo
672 sub bar : Chained CaptureArgs(1) { ... }
673
674 # in MyApp::Controller::Foo::Moo
675 sub bar : ChainedParent Args(1) { ... }
676
677This builds a chain like C</bar/*/bar/*>.
678
05a90578 679=item CaptureArgs
680
67869327 681Must be specified for every part of the chain that is not an
05a90578 682endpoint. With this attribute Catalyst knows how many of the following
67869327 683parts of the path (separated by C</>) this action wants to capture as
684its arguments. If it doesn't expect any, just specify
685C<:CaptureArgs(0)>. The captures get passed to the action's C<@_> right
686after the context, but you can also find them as array references in
05a90578 687C<$c-E<gt>request-E<gt>captures-E<gt>[$level]>. The C<$level> is the
688level of the action in the chain that captured the parts of the path.
689
67869327 690An action that is part of a chain (that is, one that has a C<:Chained>
691attribute) but has no C<:CaptureArgs> attribute is treated by Catalyst
692as a chain end.
05a90578 693
480d94b5 694Allowed values for CaptureArgs is a single integer (CaptureArgs(2), meaning two
695allowed) or you can declare a L<Moose>, L<MooseX::Types> or L<Type::Tiny>
696named constraint such as CaptureArgs(Int,Str) would require two args with
697the first being a Integer and the second a string. You may declare your own
698custom type constraints and import them into the controller namespace:
699
700 package MyApp::Controller::Root;
701
702 use Moose;
703 use MooseX::MethodAttributes;
704 use MyApp::Types qw/Int/;
705
706 extends 'Catalyst::Controller';
707
708 sub chain_base :Chained(/) CaptureArgs(1) { }
709
710 sub any_priority_chain :Chained(chain_base) PathPart('') Args(1) { }
711
712 sub int_priority_chain :Chained(chain_base) PathPart('') Args(Int) { }
713
714See L<Catalyst::RouteMatching> for more.
715
05a90578 716=item Args
717
718By default, endpoints receive the rest of the arguments in the path. You
719can tell Catalyst through C<:Args> explicitly how many arguments your
720endpoint expects, just like you can with C<:CaptureArgs>. Note that this
67869327 721also affects whether this chain is invoked on a request. A chain with an
05a90578 722endpoint specifying one argument will only match if exactly one argument
723exists in the path.
724
725You can specify an exact number of arguments like C<:Args(3)>, including
726C<0>. If you just say C<:Args> without any arguments, it is the same as
67869327 727leaving it out altogether: The chain is matched regardless of the number
05a90578 728of path parts after the endpoint.
729
67869327 730Just as with C<:CaptureArgs>, the arguments get passed to the action in
05a90578 731C<@_> after the context object. They can also be reached through
732C<$c-E<gt>request-E<gt>arguments>.
733
734=back
735
67869327 736=head2 Auto actions, dispatching and forwarding
05a90578 737
738Note that the list of C<auto> actions called depends on the private path
67869327 739of the endpoint of the chain, not on the chained actions way. The
740C<auto> actions will be run before the chain dispatching begins. In
741every other aspect, C<auto> actions behave as documented.
05a90578 742
64111aca 743The C<forward>ing to other actions does just what you would expect. i.e.
e1207438 744only the target action is run. The actions that that action is chained
745to are not run.
746If you C<detach> out of a chain, the rest of the chain will not get
747called after the C<detach>.
05a90578 748
22faeff5 749=head2 match_captures
750
751A method which can optionally be implemented by actions to
752stop chain matching.
753
754See L<Catalyst::Action> for further details.
755
2f381252 756=head1 AUTHORS
141459fa 757
2f381252 758Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm
141459fa 759
760=head1 COPYRIGHT
761
536bee89 762This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under
141459fa 763the same terms as Perl itself.
764
765=cut
766
7671;