[Catalyst] Handling a path of '/'

[Justin Guenther]

On 12/1/05, Chisel Wright <chisel at herlpacker.co.uk> wrote:

> This sounds very much like the example I posted yesterday - about much
> the same problem.
>
> It's my understanding (and yesterday's example seems to back me up) that
> you can use "sub index : Private { ... }" to catch '/' URLs.
> In MyApp.pm it would catch http://server:3000/ and in MyApp::C::Foo it
> would catch http://server:3000/foo/
>
> I think (but haven't tested) that one way would be for you to have the
> following in MyApp.pm:
>
> sub index : Private {
>   my ($self, $c) = @_;
>   $c->response->redirect('/menu');
> }
>
> Skimming the docs, "$c->forward('/menu')" may also work in place of the
> redirect.


Ah yes. I replaced `sub display_menu : Path('')' with `sub index : Private'
and it seems to work just fine. Is there a particular reason why my original
method didn't work in the root, but did for sub-controllers? It seems like a
bug to me...

I tend to take the lazy way out. My global default() redirects to 'the
> default application action' [e.g. /client/list] and each controller
> default usually redirects to the appropriate list view.
>
> That way, any rubbish URLs that people use will result in seeing
> something useful, instead of a 404.
>
> Chisel
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