Marcus Ramberg (marcusramberg) wrote,
Marcus Ramberg
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Dispatch by request method

I often find myself needing to make actions that should only be dispatched to by the POST method, or writing dispatch logic to distinguish between POST and GET in my various methods. It would be nice if the Catalyst dispatcher could handle this for me directly. However, we should probably support the whole HTTP spec, and adding those would pollute the attribute space pretty badly. Thus I suggest that we add a prefix, like do_POST or require_DELETE to the dispatch value. The other alternative is to add a method attribute, which would make the api look something like this

sub admin : Local Method('POST') {}

Obviously, it would have to match against specific methods first, then fall back on a generic handler without a specified method. Any other thoughts on the API?
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