[Catalyst] Trouble getting attribute parameters for action classes

[Matt S Trout]

John Napiorkowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on an action class and trying to
> understand how parameters are passed into attributes.
> 
> If I call an action class like this:
> 
> sub test :Local ActionClass('test') myAttr() {}
> 
> in the action class match I can check for that custom
> attribute like so:
> 
> sub match
> {
>   my $self = shift @_;
>   my ($c)  = @_;
> 
>   return 1 unless exists $self->attributes->{myAttr};
> 
>   my @params = @{$self->attributes->{myAttr}};
> 
>   ...
> }
> 
> However no matter what I use for attribute parameters
> that @params always has a single entry.  I figure I
> must be doing something wrong because if the attribute
> is only allowed to have a single parameter why bother
> to have it in an array ref?
> 
> I've tried:
> 
> myAttr(a,b,c)
> myAttr('a','b','c')
> myAttr(qw/a b c/)
> 
> but the @params from the example above always ends up
> having:
> 
> $params[0] = "a,b,c";
> $params[0] = "a','b','c";
> $params[0] = "qw/a b c/";
> 
> and the like.
> 
> Does anyone know what I am doing incorrectly?

sub foo :myAttr(a) :myAttr(b) :myAttr(c)

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