NAME

Catalyst::Base - Catalyst Universal Base Class

SYNOPSIS

# lib/MyApp/Model/Something.pm
package MyApp::Model::Something;

use base 'Catalyst::Base';

__PACKAGE__->config( foo => 'bar' );

sub test {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->{foo};
}

sub forward_to_me {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    $c->response->output( $self->{foo} );
}

1;

# Methods can be a request step
$c->forward(qw/MyApp::Model::Something forward_to_me/);
MyApp->action( 'index.html' => \&MyApp::Model::Something::forward_to_me );

# Or just methods
print $c->comp('MyApp::Model::Something')->test;

print $c->comp('MyApp::Model::Something')->{foo};

DESCRIPTION

This is the universal base class for Catalyst components (Model/View/Controller).

It provides you with a generic new() for instantiation through Catalyst's component loader with config() support and a process() method placeholder.

METHODS

new($c)

$c->config

$c->config($hashref)

$c->config($key, $value, ...)

$c->process()

SEE ALSO

Catalyst.

AUTHOR

Sebastian Riedel, sri@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.