[ic] Can IC always look in ~/pages/?

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 06:04:01 UTC 2010


>>>> My suggestion is to use either an actionmap (if "folder-name" is always
>>>> the same) or to use a missing specialsub (if it is not).  In either
>>>> case, you can strip out the folder name from the beginning of the path,
>>>> grab the page name portion (and if it is blank make it "index"), and
>>>> then return the new page name from either the missing specialsub or the
>>>> actionmap for Interchange to process for you.
>>>
>>> The "folder-name" changes.  I do something like the above in an
>>> Autoload for GETs, but since all of my POSTs have a path like
>>> "/folder-name/process.html",
>>
>> It should (but don't quote me on this) still work to rewrite the page to
>> /process.html, but you need to do it in an actionmap or missing
>> specialsub, not from an autoload.  Actionmap and missing specialsub have
>> the advantage that they fire off before autoload (I think, again don't
>> quote me on this) and you can modify the passed path and return it for
>> IC to re-parse as the page name.  If it sees "process" returned from one
>> of these it should treat it as a process page and continue on as expected.
>>
>
> No, Autoload comes first. If you are rewriting the URL in Autoload and
> intend to
> trigger an ActionMap, set $Vend::FinalPath in Autoload, e.g. with the
> following tag:
>
> UserTag mangle_path Order path
> UserTag mangle_path Routine <<EOR
> sub {
>        my $path = shift;
>        $Vend::FinalPath = $path;
> }
> EOR
>
> Regards
>        Racke

Thank you Racke and Peter.  I'm using [mangle_path] like this in an Autoload:

[if scratch folder_name]
  [tmp path][data session last_url][/tmp]
  [perl] $Scratch->{path} =~ s/\/$Scratch->{folder_name}//; [/perl]
  [mangle_path path="[scratch path]"]
[/if]

I did a lot of testing but I can't figure out how it works.  Can
anyone tell me how $Vend::FinalPath is used by IC?  What does the
shift line in the usertag do?  I read about shift at perldoc.perl.org
but I can't figure out how it is used in mangle_url.tag.

- Grant



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