current route of perl dancer

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

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Does anyone know if there is a name to refer to the current route?

for example, I have "http://localhost/abc". I would like to have some variable, such as "current_route" to refer the route of "/abc" or just "abc". Then I can use it a template tt file as <% current_route %>.

I can find some other way to go round this. but a direct name would be nice.

Thanks

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Re: current route of perl dancer by webfiend (Vicar) on Feb 09, 2014 at 21:23 UTC
You might be looking for the Dancer::Request method `path`. You get at a Dancer::Request object via `request`. `# in app.pl hook before_template_render => sub { my $tokens = shift; # Make the path available in every template. $tokens->{current_route} = request->path; }; # in views/layouts/main.tt <p>Route: <% current_route %></p>` [download] Anything more elaborate than what I did, you'll probably want to create a custom helper.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: current route of perl dancer by lightoverhead (Pilgrim) on Feb 10, 2014 at 19:46 UTC
Thank you guys. Nice solution!	[reply]
Re: current route of perl dancer by Anonymous Monk on Feb 10, 2014 at 00:15 UTC
See also `request()->{'_route_pattern'}` but heed the warning from source of Dancer::Route	[reply] [d/l]
Re: current route of perl dancer by Anonymous Monk on Feb 10, 2014 at 20:58 UTC
Also note that "template variables" can be very powerful things indeed, if you equate them to anonymous subroutines e.g. `... => sub { do something here ... }`. (A subroutine reference may be required.) This usage will execute code every time the variable is referenced in the template, not just prior to displaying the template.	[reply]