[Catalyst] Forwarding to public URLs vs. private paths

[John Napiorkowski]

--- Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:

> Bernhard Graf wrote:
> > Matt S Trout wrote:
> > 
> >> Public URLs are not private paths. This doesn't
> work, has never
> >> worked, and will never work, by design.
> >>
> >> Trying to forward to a MyApp::Controller::Foo sub
> bar :Path('/spoon')
> >> as /spoon won't work either, you'd need /foo/bar.
> >>
> >> This is consistent across all dispatch types and
> is neither anything
> >> to do with Chained for a bug :)
> > 
> > Ah, thank you for clearing this up.
> > Maybe this should be noted in the docs also to
> avoid confusion.
> 
> forward docs say "Forwards processing to another
> action, by its private name."
> 
> But yeah, it probably needs to be spelt out in Big
> Letters somewhere since the 
> most common case (:Local actions) actually *does*
> work as expected, but really 
> only by accident.

I think the original question about
forwarding/detaching to actions that are chain
endpoints isn't fully resolved.  I've been playing
with that and find that if I forward to a chain
endpoint the  root of the chain is activated but then
we don't walk up the chain to the endpoint specified. 
I've tried submitting args and preseting captures like
so:

$c->request->captures([qw/a b c/]);
$c->forward('edit',[qw/1 2 3/]); 

(assuming there is an action chain something like:

/images/images (0)
-> /images/image (1)
=> /images/edit

When I run the above forward I get:

/images/begin                                         
        
/images/index                                         
        
  -> /images/images                                   
         
/end

Probably not such a big deal but if this isn't going
to work we should probably add that as well to the
docs (I guess I'm volunteering :) )  Then again maybe
there is a way to make it work, but I didn't figure it
out.  If so I'd be interested in hearing about a
solution.

Oh, also we should mention there is a difference
between the private action name and the :Private
attribute.  I was tutoring someone starting Catalyst
last week and that was something he got confused
about, so I guessing others might as well.

--john

> 
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> documentation patches"
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