Question on overriding a Mason method

freddo411 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm attempting to override a Mason method on one of my pages. I'd like to inherit the behavior of the parent method, but add a few bits to the output.
My hierarchy looks like this:

auto -> auto2 -> my_page
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The parent method "leftnav" is defined in auto.
I expected my code in my page to look something like this:

<%method leftnav>
<%perl>
    $m->comp( PARENT:leftnav, %ARGS );
    # some code here to add some stuff at the bottom
</%perl>
</%method>
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The above does not work.
Question:
* Is there a syntax for "PARENT"? What is it?
* If no, how to code something like this?

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Re: Question on overriding a Mason method by Anonymous Monk on Jan 12, 2012 at 02:19 UTC
The above does not work. How? http://www.masonhq.com/docs/manual/Devel.html#accessing_methods_and_attributes	[reply]
Re^2: Question on overriding a Mason method by freddo411 (Chaplain) on Feb 08, 2012 at 21:41 UTC
I found my incorrect syntax on this. I needed to quote the string argument to comp(); The correct syntax is: `<%perl> $m->comp( 'PARENT:leftnav', %ARGS ); # some code here to add some stuff at the bottom </%perl>` [download] ------------------------------------- Nothing is too wonderful to be true -- Michael Faraday	[reply] [d/l]