Minor engine cleanup

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

diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/Utils.pm b/lib/Catalyst/Utils.pm
index 440daa3..e4c5db8 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Catalyst/Utils.pm
+++ b/lib/Catalyst/Utils.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ package Catalyst::Utils;
 
 use strict;
 use attributes ();
+use HTTP::Request;
 use Path::Class;
+use URI;
 
 =head1 NAME
 
@@ -152,6 +154,34 @@ sub reflect_actions {
 
 =back
 
+=item request($string);
+
+Returns an C<HTTP::Request> from a string.
+
+=cut
+
+sub request {
+    my $request = shift;
+
+    unless ( ref $request ) {
+
+        if ( $request =~ m/http/i ) {
+            $request = URI->new($request)->canonical;
+        }
+        else {
+            $request = URI->new( 'http://localhost' . $request )->canonical;
+        }
+    }
+
+    unless ( ref $request eq 'HTTP::Request' ) {
+        $request = HTTP::Request->new( 'GET', $request );
+    }
+
+    return $request;
+}
+
+=back
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Sebastian Riedel, C<sri@cpan.org>