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.IX Title "Catalyst::DispatchType 3pm"
.TH Catalyst::DispatchType 3pm "2020-07-26" "perl v5.34.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Catalyst::DispatchType \- DispatchType Base Class
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
See Catalyst.
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This is an abstract base class for Dispatch Types.
.PP
From a code perspective, dispatch types are used to find which actions
to call for a given request \s-1URL.\s0  Website authors will typically work
with them via subroutine names attributes; a description of dispatch
at the attribute/URL level is given in Catalyst::Manual::Intro.
.SH "METHODS"
.IX Header "METHODS"
.ie n .SS "$self\->list($c)"
.el .SS "\f(CW$self\fP\->list($c)"
.IX Subsection "$self->list($c)"
abstract method, to be implemented by dispatchtypes. Called to display
info in debug log.
.ie n .SS "$self\->match( $c, $path )"
.el .SS "\f(CW$self\fP\->match( \f(CW$c\fP, \f(CW$path\fP )"
.IX Subsection "$self->match( $c, $path )"
abstract method, to be implemented by dispatchtypes. Returns true if the
dispatch type matches the given path
.ie n .SS "$self\->register( $c, $action )"
.el .SS "\f(CW$self\fP\->register( \f(CW$c\fP, \f(CW$action\fP )"
.IX Subsection "$self->register( $c, $action )"
abstract method, to be implemented by dispatchtypes. Takes a
context object and a Catalyst::Action object.
.PP
Should return true if it registers something, or false otherwise.
.ie n .SS "$self\->uri_for_action( $action, \e@captures )"
.el .SS "\f(CW$self\fP\->uri_for_action( \f(CW$action\fP, \e@captures )"
.IX Subsection "$self->uri_for_action( $action, @captures )"
abstract method, to be implemented by dispatchtypes. Takes a
Catalyst::Action object and an arrayref of captures, and should
return either a \s-1URI\s0 part which if placed in \f(CW$c\fR\->req\->path would cause
\&\f(CW$self\fR\->match to match this action and set \f(CW$c\fR\->req\->captures to the supplied
arrayref, or undef if unable to do so.
.ie n .SS "$self\->expand_action"
.el .SS "\f(CW$self\fP\->expand_action"
.IX Subsection "$self->expand_action"
Default fallback, returns nothing. See Catalyst::Dispatcher for more info
about expand_action.
.SH "AUTHORS"
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.