My current solution is setting a global variable in my root controller... but I'd prefer to use the "official" way and to be compatible with any Catalyst App without changing it.

site:catalystframework.org context -> Application-wide access to the context ($c) for the impatient .. stuff $c in a localized global ... Caveats 

 package MyApp;
 use Catalyst;
 our $__ACTIVE_CTX = undef;
 sub ctx { $__ACTIVE_CTX }
 around 'dispatch' => sub {
   my ($orig, $c, @args) = @_;
   local $__ACTIVE_CTX = $c;
   $c->$orig(@args)
 };

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In reply to Re: How to get the Catalyst Context object by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to get the Catalyst Context object by Sewi

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