NAME

Catalyst::View::Mason - Mason View Class

SYNOPSIS

    # use the helper
    create.pl view Mason Mason

    # lib/MyApp/View/Mason.pm
    package MyApp::View::Mason;

    use base 'Catalyst::View::Mason';

    __PACKAGE__->config->{DEBUG} = 'all';
    __PACKAGE__->config->{comp_root} = '/path/to/comp_root';
    __PACKAGE__->config->{data_dir} = '/path/to/data_dir';

    1;
    
    $c->forward('MyApp::View::Mason');

DESCRIPTION

Want to use a Mason component in your views? No problem! Catalyst::View::Mason comes to the rescue.

CAVEATS

You have to define comp_root and data_dir. If comp_root is not directly defined within config, the value comes from config-{root}>. If you don't define it at all, Mason is going to complain :) The default data_dir is /tmp.

METHODS

process

Renders the component specified in $c->stash->{template} or $c->request->match to $c->response->output.

Note that the component name must be absolute, or is converted to absolute (ie, a / is added to the beginning if it doesn't start with one)

Mason global variables $base, $c and c<$name> are automatically set to the base, context and name of the app, respectively.

config

This allows your view subclass to pass additional settings to the Mason HTML::Mason::Interp->new constructor.

SEE ALSO

Catalyst, HTML::Mason, "Using Mason from a Standalone Script" in HTML::Mason::Admin

AUTHOR

Andres Kievsky ank@cpan.org

Based on the original Catalyst::View::TT code by:

Sebastian Riedel, sri@cpan.org Marcus Ramberg

COPYRIGHT

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