Catalyst::View(3pm)

💖 Catalyst::View — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, you found the Catalyst::View page, aka the base class for views in Catalyst. It lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your system, and yes, we're reading it together. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Catalyst::View — it's the Catalyst View base class. That's the whole name. Iconic, brief, slays. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Here's the vibe, verbatim, no edits, no notes:

package Catalyst::View::Homebrew;

use base qw/Catalyst::View/;

sub process {
# template processing goes here.
}

Literally that's it. You subclass it, you write your own process, and the template magic goes in there. 🪄

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So. This is the Catalyst View base class, and its whole purpose in life is to be used as a base class by Catalyst views. Like, it's the blueprint bestie, not the building. 🏗️

By convention (and convention is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here), views are expected to:

• read template names from $c->stash->{template} 📖
• put the output into $c->res->body 📤

Some views will lowkey just default to rendering a template named after the dispatched action's private name. (If you wanna know what that means, go look at Catalyst::Action — it's linked in spirit, iykyk. ✨)

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💅 METHODS 💅

Not me implementing the exact same methods as every other Catalyst component — because yes, that's the whole point. Go check Catalyst::Component for the full tea. 🍵

🎀 process 🎀

gives an error message about direct use.

That's it. That's the method. It does NOT want to be called directly, bestie — it will literally just yell at you about it. Direct use = error message, periodt. 😭 So please, subclass it and override it like a normal person. 🙈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm — the whole squad, credited as one. We love a collective moment. 🫶

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Go wild, legally. ✨

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friendly reminder from your girl: the vibe is cute but the facts are sacred — every flag, path, and warning up there is exactly as the original says it. don't come for me, come for the docs. 💀

mwah 💖 This page was brought to you by perl v5.40.0, dated 2024-11-15, straight from the User Contributed Perl Documentation. Go forth and render some templates, main character. 🌸🦋🎀⭐