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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 = $endpoint->list_extra_info->{Args};
792b40ac 101 my @parts = (defined($args) ? (("*") 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})) {
133 $name .= ' ('.$cap.')';
d34667c3 134 }
e72a3cd6 135 if (defined(my $ct = $p->list_extra_info->{Consumes})) {
136 $name .= ' :'.$ct;
137 }
342d2169 138 if (defined(my $s = $p->list_extra_info->{Scheme})) {
139 $scheme = uc $s;
140 }
e72a3cd6 141
d34667c3 142 unless ($p eq $parents[0]) {
143 $name = "-> ${name}";
144 }
145 push(@rows, [ '', $name ]);
146 }
342d2169 147 push(@rows, [ '', (@rows ? "=> " : '').($extra ? "$extra " : ''). ($scheme ? "$scheme: ":'')."/${endpoint}". ($consumes ? " :$consumes":"" ) ]);
0ca510f0 148 my @display_parts = map { $_ =~s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg; decode_utf8 $_ } @parts;
149 $rows[0][0] = join('/', '', @display_parts) || '/';
d34667c3 150 $paths->row(@$_) for @rows;
792b40ac 151 }
152
1cf0345b 153 $c->log->debug( "Loaded Chained actions:\n" . $paths->draw . "\n" );
007a7ca0 154 $c->log->debug( "Unattached Chained actions:\n", $unattached_actions->draw . "\n" )
155 if $has_unattached_actions;
792b40ac 156}
141459fa 157
ba3f8a81 158sub _list_extra_http_methods {
159 my ( $self, $action ) = @_;
160 return unless defined $action->list_extra_info->{HTTP_METHODS};
161 return join(', ', @{$action->list_extra_info->{HTTP_METHODS}});
e72a3cd6 162
ba3f8a81 163}
164
e72a3cd6 165sub _list_extra_consumes {
166 my ( $self, $action ) = @_;
167 return unless defined $action->list_extra_info->{CONSUMES};
168 return join(', ', @{$action->list_extra_info->{CONSUMES}});
169}
170
342d2169 171sub _list_extra_scheme {
172 my ( $self, $action ) = @_;
173 return unless defined $action->list_extra_info->{Scheme};
174 return uc $action->list_extra_info->{Scheme};
175}
e72a3cd6 176
141459fa 177=head2 $self->match( $c, $path )
178
05a90578 179Calls C<recurse_match> to see if a chain matches the C<$path>.
141459fa 180
181=cut
182
183sub match {
184 my ( $self, $c, $path ) = @_;
185
e5ecd5bc 186 my $request = $c->request;
187 return 0 if @{$request->args};
141459fa 188
189 my @parts = split('/', $path);
190
6365b527 191 my ($chain, $captures, $parts) = $self->recurse_match($c, '/', \@parts);
634780e0 192
193 if ($parts && @$parts) {
194 for my $arg (@$parts) {
195 $arg =~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg;
196 push @{$request->args}, $arg;
197 }
198 }
141459fa 199
200 return 0 unless $chain;
201
202 my $action = Catalyst::ActionChain->from_chain($chain);
203
e5ecd5bc 204 $request->action("/${action}");
205 $request->match("/${action}");
206 $request->captures($captures);
141459fa 207 $c->action($action);
208 $c->namespace( $action->namespace );
209
210 return 1;
211}
212
213=head2 $self->recurse_match( $c, $parent, \@path_parts )
214
05a90578 215Recursive search for a matching chain.
141459fa 216
217=cut
218
219sub recurse_match {
220 my ( $self, $c, $parent, $path_parts ) = @_;
be5cb4e4 221 my $children = $self->_children_of->{$parent};
141459fa 222 return () unless $children;
6b495723 223 my $best_action;
141459fa 224 my @captures;
1b04b972 225 TRY: foreach my $try_part (sort { length($b) <=> length($a) }
cdc97b63 226 keys %$children) {
1b04b972 227 # $b then $a to try longest part first
141459fa 228 my @parts = @$path_parts;
229 if (length $try_part) { # test and strip PathPart
230 next TRY unless
231 ($try_part eq join('/', # assemble equal number of parts
232 splice( # and strip them off @parts as well
792b40ac 233 @parts, 0, scalar(@{[split('/', $try_part)]})
234 ))); # @{[]} to avoid split to @_
141459fa 235 }
236 my @try_actions = @{$children->{$try_part}};
237 TRY_ACTION: foreach my $action (@try_actions) {
1c34f703 238 if (my $capture_attr = $action->attributes->{CaptureArgs}) {
a82c96cf 239 my $capture_count = $action->number_of_captures|| 0;
f505df49 240
241 # Short-circuit if not enough remaining parts
3f91cb25 242 next TRY_ACTION unless @parts >= $capture_count;
f505df49 243
141459fa 244 my @captures;
245 my @parts = @parts; # localise
7a7ac23c 246
1c34f703 247 # strip CaptureArgs into list
3f91cb25 248 push(@captures, splice(@parts, 0, $capture_count));
7a7ac23c 249
1279064a 250 # check if the action may fit, depending on a given test by the app
a82c96cf 251 next TRY_ACTION unless $action->match_captures($c, \@captures);
1279064a 252
141459fa 253 # try the remaining parts against children of this action
0c78acb6 254 my ($actions, $captures, $action_parts, $n_pathparts) = $self->recurse_match(
141459fa 255 $c, '/'.$action->reverse, \@parts
256 );
2f381252 257 # No best action currently
258 # OR The action has less parts
259 # OR The action has equal parts but less captured data (ergo more defined)
260 if ($actions &&
261 (!$best_action ||
f4dbb497 262 $#$action_parts < $#{$best_action->{parts}} ||
2f381252 263 ($#$action_parts == $#{$best_action->{parts}} &&
0c78acb6 264 $#$captures < $#{$best_action->{captures}} &&
265 $n_pathparts > $best_action->{n_pathparts}))) {
266 my @pathparts = split /\//, $action->attributes->{PathPart}->[0];
6b495723 267 $best_action = {
268 actions => [ $action, @$actions ],
269 captures=> [ @captures, @$captures ],
0c78acb6 270 parts => $action_parts,
271 n_pathparts => scalar(@pathparts) + $n_pathparts,
272 };
6b495723 273 }
274 }
275 else {
7a7ac23c 276 {
277 local $c->req->{arguments} = [ @{$c->req->args}, @parts ];
278 next TRY_ACTION unless $action->match($c);
279 }
5c6d829d 280 my $args_attr = $action->attributes->{Args}->[0];
0c78acb6 281 my @pathparts = split /\//, $action->attributes->{PathPart}->[0];
953c176d 282 # No best action currently
283 # OR This one matches with fewer parts left than the current best action,
284 # And therefore is a better match
b0ad47c1 285 # OR No parts and this expects 0
953c176d 286 # The current best action might also be Args(0),
287 # but we couldn't chose between then anyway so we'll take the last seen
288
289 if (!$best_action ||
290 @parts < @{$best_action->{parts}} ||
a53e36d1 291 (!@parts && defined($args_attr) && $args_attr eq "0")){
6b495723 292 $best_action = {
293 actions => [ $action ],
294 captures=> [],
0c78acb6 295 parts => \@parts,
296 n_pathparts => scalar(@pathparts),
297 };
953c176d 298 }
141459fa 299 }
300 }
301 }
0c78acb6 302 return @$best_action{qw/actions captures parts n_pathparts/} if $best_action;
141459fa 303 return ();
304}
305
306=head2 $self->register( $c, $action )
307
05a90578 308Calls register_path for every Path attribute for the given $action.
141459fa 309
310=cut
311
312sub register {
313 my ( $self, $c, $action ) = @_;
314
1dc8af44 315 my @chained_attr = @{ $action->attributes->{Chained} || [] };
141459fa 316
1dc8af44 317 return 0 unless @chained_attr;
141459fa 318
2f381252 319 if (@chained_attr > 1) {
141459fa 320 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
5882c86e 321 "Multiple Chained attributes not supported registering ${action}"
141459fa 322 );
323 }
13c6b4cc 324 my $chained_to = $chained_attr[0];
141459fa 325
13c6b4cc 326 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
327 "Actions cannot chain to themselves registering /${action}"
328 ) if ($chained_to eq '/' . $action);
329
330 my $children = ($self->_children_of->{ $chained_to } ||= {});
141459fa 331
332 my @path_part = @{ $action->attributes->{PathPart} || [] };
333
09461385 334 my $part = $action->name;
141459fa 335
09461385 336 if (@path_part == 1 && defined $path_part[0]) {
337 $part = $path_part[0];
141459fa 338 } elsif (@path_part > 1) {
339 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
f3414019 340 "Multiple PathPart attributes not supported registering " . $action->reverse()
141459fa 341 );
342 }
343
8a6a6581 344 if ($part =~ m(^/)) {
345 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
f3414019 346 "Absolute parameters to PathPart not allowed registering " . $action->reverse()
8a6a6581 347 );
348 }
349
0ca510f0 350 my $encoded_part = URI->new($part)->canonical;
351 $encoded_part =~ s{(?<=[^/])/+\z}{};
792b40ac 352
0ca510f0 353 $action->attributes->{PathPart} = [ $encoded_part ];
354
355 unshift(@{ $children->{$encoded_part} ||= [] }, $action);
141459fa 356
be5cb4e4 357 $self->_actions->{'/'.$action->reverse} = $action;
792b40ac 358
2e29aec2 359 if (exists $action->attributes->{Args} and exists $action->attributes->{CaptureArgs}) {
360 Catalyst::Exception->throw(
bc71493a 361 "Combining Args and CaptureArgs attributes not supported registering " .
362 $action->reverse()
2e29aec2 363 );
dd97c1ac 364 }
365
1c34f703 366 unless ($action->attributes->{CaptureArgs}) {
be5cb4e4 367 unshift(@{ $self->_endpoints }, $action);
792b40ac 368 }
369
370 return 1;
141459fa 371}
372
373=head2 $self->uri_for_action($action, $captures)
374
05a90578 375Get the URI part for the action, using C<$captures> to fill
376the capturing parts.
141459fa 377
378=cut
379
380sub uri_for_action {
381 my ( $self, $action, $captures ) = @_;
382
5882c86e 383 return undef unless ($action->attributes->{Chained}
8b13f357 384 && !$action->attributes->{CaptureArgs});
792b40ac 385
386 my @parts = ();
387 my @captures = @$captures;
388 my $parent = "DUMMY";
389 my $curr = $action;
b6847871 390 # If this is an action chain get the last action in the chain
391 if($curr->can('chain') ) {
392 $curr = ${$curr->chain}[-1];
393 }
792b40ac 394 while ($curr) {
b6847871 395 if (my $cap = $curr->number_of_captures) {
396 return undef unless @captures >= $cap; # not enough captures
397 if ($cap) {
398 unshift(@parts, splice(@captures, -$cap));
8b13f357 399 }
792b40ac 400 }
77771155 401 if (my $pp = $curr->attributes->{PathPart}) {
792b40ac 402 unshift(@parts, $pp->[0])
8b13f357 403 if (defined($pp->[0]) && length($pp->[0]));
792b40ac 404 }
5882c86e 405 $parent = $curr->attributes->{Chained}->[0];
be5cb4e4 406 $curr = $self->_actions->{$parent};
141459fa 407 }
792b40ac 408
409 return undef unless $parent eq '/'; # fail for dangling action
410
411 return undef if @captures; # fail for too many captures
412
413 return join('/', '', @parts);
59d5a638 414
141459fa 415}
416
ae0e35ee 417=head2 $c->expand_action($action)
418
b0ad47c1 419Return a list of actions that represents a chained action. See
ae0e35ee 420L<Catalyst::Dispatcher> for more info. You probably want to
421use the expand_action it provides rather than this directly.
422
423=cut
424
52f71256 425sub expand_action {
426 my ($self, $action) = @_;
427
428 return unless $action->attributes && $action->attributes->{Chained};
429
430 my @chain;
431 my $curr = $action;
432
433 while ($curr) {
434 push @chain, $curr;
435 my $parent = $curr->attributes->{Chained}->[0];
436 $curr = $self->_actions->{$parent};
437 }
438
439 return Catalyst::ActionChain->from_chain([reverse @chain]);
440}
441
e5ecd5bc 442__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
f4de8c99 4431;
e5ecd5bc 444
05a90578 445=head1 USAGE
446
447=head2 Introduction
448
449The C<Chained> attribute allows you to chain public path parts together
67869327 450by their private names. A chain part's path can be specified with
451C<PathPart> and can be declared to expect an arbitrary number of
452arguments. The endpoint of the chain specifies how many arguments it
453gets through the C<Args> attribute. C<:Args(0)> would be none at all,
454C<:Args> without an integer would be unlimited. The path parts that
455aren't endpoints are using C<CaptureArgs> to specify how many parameters
456they expect to receive. As an example setup:
05a90578 457
458 package MyApp::Controller::Greeting;
459 use base qw/ Catalyst::Controller /;
460
461 # this is the beginning of our chain
462 sub hello : PathPart('hello') Chained('/') CaptureArgs(1) {
463 my ( $self, $c, $integer ) = @_;
464 $c->stash->{ message } = "Hello ";
465 $c->stash->{ arg_sum } = $integer;
466 }
467
468 # this is our endpoint, because it has no :CaptureArgs
469 sub world : PathPart('world') Chained('hello') Args(1) {
470 my ( $self, $c, $integer ) = @_;
471 $c->stash->{ message } .= "World!";
472 $c->stash->{ arg_sum } += $integer;
473
474 $c->response->body( join "<br/>\n" =>
475 $c->stash->{ message }, $c->stash->{ arg_sum } );
476 }
477
478The debug output provides a separate table for chained actions, showing
67869327 479the whole chain as it would match and the actions it contains. Here's an
480example of the startup output with our actions above:
05a90578 481
482 ...
483 [debug] Loaded Path Part actions:
484 .-----------------------+------------------------------.
485 | Path Spec | Private |
486 +-----------------------+------------------------------+
487 | /hello/*/world/* | /greeting/hello (1) |
488 | | => /greeting/world |
489 '-----------------------+------------------------------'
490 ...
491
67869327 492As you can see, Catalyst only deals with chains as whole paths and
493builds one for each endpoint, which are the actions with C<:Chained> but
494without C<:CaptureArgs>.
05a90578 495
496Let's assume this application gets a request at the path
67869327 497C</hello/23/world/12>. What happens then? First, Catalyst will dispatch
498to the C<hello> action and pass the value C<23> as an argument to it
499after the context. It does so because we have previously used
500C<:CaptureArgs(1)> to declare that it has one path part after itself as
501its argument. We told Catalyst that this is the beginning of the chain
502by specifying C<:Chained('/')>. Also note that instead of saying
503C<:PathPart('hello')> we could also just have said C<:PathPart>, as it
504defaults to the name of the action.
05a90578 505
506After C<hello> has run, Catalyst goes on to dispatch to the C<world>
67869327 507action. This is the last action to be called: Catalyst knows this is an
508endpoint because we did not specify a C<:CaptureArgs>
509attribute. Nevertheless we specify that this action expects an argument,
510but at this point we're using C<:Args(1)> to do that. We could also have
511said C<:Args> or left it out altogether, which would mean this action
512would get all arguments that are there. This action's C<:Chained>
513attribute says C<hello> and tells Catalyst that the C<hello> action in
514the current controller is its parent.
05a90578 515
516With this we have built a chain consisting of two public path parts.
67869327 517C<hello> captures one part of the path as its argument, and also
518specifies the path root as its parent. So this part is
519C</hello/$arg>. The next part is the endpoint C<world>, expecting one
520argument. It sums up to the path part C<world/$arg>. This leads to a
521complete chain of C</hello/$arg/world/$arg> which is matched against the
522requested paths.
523
524This example application would, if run and called by e.g.
525C</hello/23/world/12>, set the stash value C<message> to "Hello" and the
526value C<arg_sum> to "23". The C<world> action would then append "World!"
527to C<message> and add C<12> to the stash's C<arg_sum> value. For the
528sake of simplicity no view is shown. Instead we just put the values of
529the stash into our body. So the output would look like:
05a90578 530
531 Hello World!
532 35
533
67869327 534And our test server would have given us this debugging output for the
05a90578 535request:
536
537 ...
538 [debug] "GET" request for "hello/23/world/12" from "127.0.0.1"
539 [debug] Path is "/greeting/world"
540 [debug] Arguments are "12"
541 [info] Request took 0.164113s (6.093/s)
542 .------------------------------------------+-----------.
543 | Action | Time |
544 +------------------------------------------+-----------+
545 | /greeting/hello | 0.000029s |
546 | /greeting/world | 0.000024s |
547 '------------------------------------------+-----------'
548 ...
549
67869327 550What would be common uses of this dispatch technique? It gives the
551possibility to split up logic that contains steps that each depend on
552each other. An example would be, for example, a wiki path like
05a90578 553C</wiki/FooBarPage/rev/23/view>. This chain can be easily built with
554these actions:
555
556 sub wiki : PathPart('wiki') Chained('/') CaptureArgs(1) {
557 my ( $self, $c, $page_name ) = @_;
558 # load the page named $page_name and put the object
559 # into the stash
560 }
561
562 sub rev : PathPart('rev') Chained('wiki') CaptureArgs(1) {
563 my ( $self, $c, $revision_id ) = @_;
67869327 564 # use the page object in the stash to get at its
05a90578 565 # revision with number $revision_id
566 }
567
568 sub view : PathPart Chained('rev') Args(0) {
569 my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
67869327 570 # display the revision in our stash. Another option
05a90578 571 # would be to forward a compatible object to the action
572 # that displays the default wiki pages, unless we want
573 # a different interface here, for example restore
574 # functionality.
575 }
576
67869327 577It would now be possible to add other endpoints, for example C<restore>
578to restore this specific revision as the current state.
05a90578 579
67869327 580You don't have to put all the chained actions in one controller. The
581specification of the parent through C<:Chained> also takes an absolute
582action path as its argument. Just specify it with a leading C</>.
05a90578 583
584If you want, for example, to have actions for the public paths
67869327 585C</foo/12/edit> and C</foo/12>, just specify two actions with
05a90578 586C<:PathPart('foo')> and C<:Chained('/')>. The handler for the former
67869327 587path needs a C<:CaptureArgs(1)> attribute and a endpoint with
05a90578 588C<:PathPart('edit')> and C<:Chained('foo')>. For the latter path give
589the action just a C<:Args(1)> to mark it as endpoint. This sums up to
590this debugging output:
591
592 ...
593 [debug] Loaded Path Part actions:
594 .-----------------------+------------------------------.
595 | Path Spec | Private |
596 +-----------------------+------------------------------+
597 | /foo/* | /controller/foo_view |
598 | /foo/*/edit | /controller/foo_load (1) |
599 | | => /controller/edit |
600 '-----------------------+------------------------------'
601 ...
602
b0ad47c1 603Here's a more detailed specification of the attributes belonging to
05a90578 604C<:Chained>:
605
606=head2 Attributes
607
608=over 8
609
610=item PathPart
611
612Sets the name of this part of the chain. If it is specified without
613arguments, it takes the name of the action as default. So basically
614C<sub foo :PathPart> and C<sub foo :PathPart('foo')> are identical.
615This can also contain slashes to bind to a deeper level. An action
616with C<sub bar :PathPart('foo/bar') :Chained('/')> would bind to
617C</foo/bar/...>. If you don't specify C<:PathPart> it has the same
618effect as using C<:PathPart>, it would default to the action name.
619
d21a2b27 620=item PathPrefix
621
622Sets PathPart to the path_prefix of the current controller.
623
05a90578 624=item Chained
625
626Has to be specified for every child in the chain. Possible values are
d21a2b27 627absolute and relative private action paths or a single slash C</> to
628tell Catalyst that this is the root of a chain. The attribute
629C<:Chained> without arguments also defaults to the C</> behavior.
630Relative action paths may use C<../> to refer to actions in parent
631controllers.
05a90578 632
67869327 633Because you can specify an absolute path to the parent action, it
634doesn't matter to Catalyst where that parent is located. So, if your
635design requests it, you can redispatch a chain through any controller or
636namespace you want.
05a90578 637
638Another interesting possibility gives C<:Chained('.')>, which chains
67869327 639itself to an action with the path of the current controller's namespace.
05a90578 640For example:
641
642 # in MyApp::Controller::Foo
643 sub bar : Chained CaptureArgs(1) { ... }
644
645 # in MyApp::Controller::Foo::Bar
646 sub baz : Chained('.') Args(1) { ... }
647
648This builds up a chain like C</bar/*/baz/*>. The specification of C<.>
67869327 649as the argument to Chained here chains the C<baz> action to an action
650with the path of the current controller namespace, namely
651C</foo/bar>. That action chains directly to C</>, so the C</bar/*/baz/*>
652chain comes out as the end product.
05a90578 653
d21a2b27 654=item ChainedParent
655
656Chains an action to another action with the same name in the parent
657controller. For Example:
658
659 # in MyApp::Controller::Foo
660 sub bar : Chained CaptureArgs(1) { ... }
661
662 # in MyApp::Controller::Foo::Moo
663 sub bar : ChainedParent Args(1) { ... }
664
665This builds a chain like C</bar/*/bar/*>.
666
05a90578 667=item CaptureArgs
668
67869327 669Must be specified for every part of the chain that is not an
05a90578 670endpoint. With this attribute Catalyst knows how many of the following
67869327 671parts of the path (separated by C</>) this action wants to capture as
672its arguments. If it doesn't expect any, just specify
673C<:CaptureArgs(0)>. The captures get passed to the action's C<@_> right
674after the context, but you can also find them as array references in
05a90578 675C<$c-E<gt>request-E<gt>captures-E<gt>[$level]>. The C<$level> is the
676level of the action in the chain that captured the parts of the path.
677
67869327 678An action that is part of a chain (that is, one that has a C<:Chained>
679attribute) but has no C<:CaptureArgs> attribute is treated by Catalyst
680as a chain end.
05a90578 681
480d94b5 682Allowed values for CaptureArgs is a single integer (CaptureArgs(2), meaning two
683allowed) or you can declare a L<Moose>, L<MooseX::Types> or L<Type::Tiny>
684named constraint such as CaptureArgs(Int,Str) would require two args with
685the first being a Integer and the second a string. You may declare your own
686custom type constraints and import them into the controller namespace:
687
688 package MyApp::Controller::Root;
689
690 use Moose;
691 use MooseX::MethodAttributes;
692 use MyApp::Types qw/Int/;
693
694 extends 'Catalyst::Controller';
695
696 sub chain_base :Chained(/) CaptureArgs(1) { }
697
698 sub any_priority_chain :Chained(chain_base) PathPart('') Args(1) { }
699
700 sub int_priority_chain :Chained(chain_base) PathPart('') Args(Int) { }
701
702See L<Catalyst::RouteMatching> for more.
703
05a90578 704=item Args
705
706By default, endpoints receive the rest of the arguments in the path. You
707can tell Catalyst through C<:Args> explicitly how many arguments your
708endpoint expects, just like you can with C<:CaptureArgs>. Note that this
67869327 709also affects whether this chain is invoked on a request. A chain with an
05a90578 710endpoint specifying one argument will only match if exactly one argument
711exists in the path.
712
713You can specify an exact number of arguments like C<:Args(3)>, including
714C<0>. If you just say C<:Args> without any arguments, it is the same as
67869327 715leaving it out altogether: The chain is matched regardless of the number
05a90578 716of path parts after the endpoint.
717
67869327 718Just as with C<:CaptureArgs>, the arguments get passed to the action in
05a90578 719C<@_> after the context object. They can also be reached through
720C<$c-E<gt>request-E<gt>arguments>.
721
722=back
723
67869327 724=head2 Auto actions, dispatching and forwarding
05a90578 725
726Note that the list of C<auto> actions called depends on the private path
67869327 727of the endpoint of the chain, not on the chained actions way. The
728C<auto> actions will be run before the chain dispatching begins. In
729every other aspect, C<auto> actions behave as documented.
05a90578 730
64111aca 731The C<forward>ing to other actions does just what you would expect. i.e.
e1207438 732only the target action is run. The actions that that action is chained
733to are not run.
734If you C<detach> out of a chain, the rest of the chain will not get
735called after the C<detach>.
05a90578 736
22faeff5 737=head2 match_captures
738
739A method which can optionally be implemented by actions to
740stop chain matching.
741
742See L<Catalyst::Action> for further details.
743
2f381252 744=head1 AUTHORS
141459fa 745
2f381252 746Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm
141459fa 747
748=head1 COPYRIGHT
749
536bee89 750This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under
141459fa 751the same terms as Perl itself.
752
753=cut
754
7551;