[Catalyst] Plugin methods and context namespace

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:00:14PM -0800, John Wang wrote:
> I think a plugin that handles email-based account activation and password
> resets could be generally useful but I'm not sure how to do one cleanly (i.e.
> $c->myplugin->foo method formats and using the templating engine without
> needing an empty Controller routine in the dispatcher).

I don't see how providing a standard controller for you to subclass which
makes its functionality available via ->forward to :Private actions is
any less useful and re-usable than this - and doesn't clutter your $c
namespace at all.

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