new action method "list_extra_info" for better debugging, and did this for the new...

[catagits/Catalyst-Runtime.git] / lib / Catalyst / Action.pm

diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/Action.pm b/lib/Catalyst/Action.pm
index ee9d711..8c51d13 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Catalyst/Action.pm
+++ b/lib/Catalyst/Action.pm
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ use overload (
 
 no warnings 'recursion';
 
-#__PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(qw/class namespace reverse attributes name code/);
-
 sub dispatch {    # Execute ourselves against a context
     my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
     return $c->execute( $self->class, $self );
@@ -78,6 +76,8 @@ sub match {
     return scalar( @{ $c->req->args } ) == $args;
 }
 
+sub match_captures { 1 }
+
 sub compare {
     my ($a1, $a2) = @_;
 
@@ -90,6 +90,21 @@ sub compare {
     return $a1_args <=> $a2_args;
 }
 
+sub number_of_args {
+    my ( $self ) = @_;
+    return 0 unless exists $self->attributes->{Args};
+    return $self->attributes->{Args}[0];
+}
+
+sub number_of_captures {
+    my ( $self ) = @_;
+
+    return 0 unless exists $self->attributes->{CaptureArgs};
+    return $self->attributes->{CaptureArgs}[0] || 0;
+}
+
+sub list_extra_info { } 
+
 __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
 
 1;
@@ -105,7 +120,9 @@ and so on. This determines how the action is dispatched to.
 
 =head2 class
 
-Returns the class name where this action is defined.
+Returns the name of the component where this action is defined.
+Derived by calling the L<Catalyst::Component/catalyst_component_name|catalyst_component_name>
+method on each component.
 
 =head2 code
 
@@ -125,6 +142,16 @@ context and arguments
 Check Args attribute, and makes sure number of args matches the setting.
 Always returns true if Args is omitted.
 
+=head2 match_captures ($c, $captures)
+
+Can be implemented by action class and action role authors. If the method
+exists, then it will be called with the request context and an array reference
+of the captures for this action.
+
+Returning true from this method causes the chain match to continue, returning
+makes the chain not match (and alternate, less preferred chains will be attempted).
+
+
 =head2 compare
 
 Compares 2 actions based on the value of the C<Args> attribute, with no C<Args>
@@ -147,6 +174,18 @@ C<private_path> of an action is always suitable for passing to C<forward>.
 
 Returns the sub name of this action.
 
+=head2 number_of_args
+
+Returns the number of args this action expects. This is 0 if the action doesn't take any arguments and undef if it will take any number of arguments.
+
+=head2 number_of_captures
+
+Returns the number of captures this action expects for L<Chained|Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained> actions.
+
+=head2 list_extra_info
+
+An array of values useful to improve debugging
+
 =head2 meta
 
 Provided by Moose.