Merge branch 'pr/135' into release-candidates/rc-5.90116

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

diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/DispatchType.pm b/lib/Catalyst/DispatchType.pm
index 6ac653d..0cde651 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Catalyst/DispatchType.pm
+++ b/lib/Catalyst/DispatchType.pm
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ See L<Catalyst>.
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-This is an abstract base class for Dispatch Types. 
+This is an abstract base class for Dispatch Types.
+
+From a code perspective, dispatch types are used to find which actions
+to call for a given request URL.  Website authors will typically work
+with them via subroutine names attributes; a description of dispatch
+at the attribute/URL level is given in L<Catalyst::Manual::Intro>.
 
 =head1 METHODS
 
@@ -39,7 +44,7 @@ sub match { die "Abstract method!" }
 =head2 $self->register( $c, $action )
 
 abstract method, to be implemented by dispatchtypes. Takes a
-context object and a L<Catalyst::Action> object. 
+context object and a L<Catalyst::Action> object.
 
 Should return true if it registers something, or false otherwise.
 
@@ -68,13 +73,15 @@ about expand_action.
 
 sub expand_action { }
 
+sub _is_low_precedence { 0 }
+
 =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