Django like URL mapping in Catalyst - kind of
Did you ever want to override the way Catalyst builds its path? a bit like Rails or Django? Did you miss the handy config file and did it also take you half a day to finally figure out how to do it and realise that it is straight forward?
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Django like URL mapping in Catalyst - kind of
The problem I tried to solve is trivial, at least that was what I thought. I tried to remap URLs in one of our platforms to make it easy for others to adapt the way we call things. I18N related mostly. I have most of the things that might change in central config file already but figuring out how I actually get the URL map in there took a while. I finally found this post from Matt Trout where he outlines several possibilities to tackle it. Facing lack of time and knowing that the mapping is done by others ;-) I went with the verbose version. It fits quite nicely in our way of deploying Catalyst apps with local config files that change behaviour of the platform.
In your central config file (MyApp.conf) put a snippet like this:
{{< highlight xml >}} Path /vim Path /vim/content Path /vim/tld {{< / highlight >}}
This maps the controller Editor to the path /vim and the two actions
( content and tlds ) to the according endpoints under it. This stupid
snippet cost me a couple of hours to figure out but now live is good and
I can move on :-)