Catalyst Help once again

code-ninja has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi again monks, I'm back with another Catalyst related doubt. Well, since my last post here I've learned Catalyst and recalled quite much about all the things I forgot about Perl (yippee!). The Catalyst app I'm working on now has a Login controller, a signup controller and even an upload controller and the best thing is, I coded them myself after understanding stuff from that Catalyst book.

The good thing is I'm stuck again. What my application does is, after logging in a user, asks them if they want to upload a file or view all files that are present on the server. I used Catalyst::Request::Upload plugin for letting the user upload a file. Now, when I list all the files, I want the user to be able to click on the name of the file and the browser should open the "Download File" dialogue box. I tried using Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple but I can't seem to figure it out. :/ :(.

Will any monk be kind enough to present me a step-by-step crash course on how to use C::P::S::S? Or a better question is, since I learn faster by examples, can any monk point me to a complete example that uses C::P::S::S? I did google about it, but it still is unclear.

PS: No, I'm not allowing the user to view ALL files on the server, just the files I put in the application_root/static/temp directory.

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Re: Catalyst Help once again (MANIFEST)
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 29, 2013 at 09:02 UTC

I tried using Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple but I can't seem to figure it out. :/ :(.

What did you try?

:) All the best code has examples ready to run in MANIFEST, speaking of "best code", "better best" code even has them in examples directory with short/meaningful/clear to understand variable/subnames, and "super best" code even has complete example in SYNOPSIS

So, it seem you should use

    MyApp->config(
        static => {
##          include_path => [
##              MyApp->config->{root}.'/static',
##          ],
## or
            dirs  => [
##              qr{^static},
                'static',
            ],
        },
    );
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Then you save your files in MyApp->config->{root}.'/static/temp/fileXXX.jpg'

and you generate links /yourapp/static/temp/fileXXX.jpg so C'P'S'S will search MyApp->config->{root}.'/static/ for temp/fileXXX.jpg

All that is left to turn on debug , test it, and tweak ignore*/mime....

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