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Hi all,

Lots of modules have methods/functions that expect a filehandle to
->print() their results to; it would be handy to be able to pass them
$c->response and have it DTRT. Here's a patch (against 5.70/trunk)
that implements this, feedback welcome.

=== Changes
==================================================================
--- Changes (revision 59039)
+++ Changes (local)
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
- Fix some Win32 test failures
- Add pt translation of error message (wreis)
- Make :Chained('../action') work (Florian Ragwitz)
+ - Add Catalyst::Response->print() method (ilmari)

5.7099_03 2008-07-20 10:10:00
- Fix regressions for regexp fallback in model(), view() and controller()
=== lib/Catalyst/Response.pm
==================================================================
--- lib/Catalyst/Response.pm (revision 59039)
+++ lib/Catalyst/Response.pm (local)
@@ -147,6 +147,27 @@

sub write { shift->{_context}->write(@_); }

+=head2 $res->print( @data )
+
+Prints @data to the output stream, separated by $,. This lets you pass
+the response object to functions that want to write to an L<IO::Handle>.
+
+=cut
+
+sub print {
+ my $self = shift;
+ my $data = shift;
+
+ defined $self->write($data) or return;
+
+ for (@_) {
+ defined $self->write($,) or return;
+ defined $self->write($_) or return;
+ }
+
+ return 1;
+}
+
=head1 AUTHORS

Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm
=== lib/Catalyst.pm
==================================================================
--- lib/Catalyst.pm (revision 59039)
+++ lib/Catalyst.pm (local)
@@ -2465,6 +2465,8 @@

Geoff Richards

+ilmari: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
+
jcamacho: Juan Camacho

Jody Belka
=== t/live_engine_response_print.t
==================================================================
--- t/live_engine_response_print.t (revision 59039)
+++ t/live_engine_response_print.t (local)
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use FindBin;
+use lib "$FindBin::Bin/lib";
+
+use Test::More tests => 9;
+use Catalyst::Test 'TestApp';
+
+my $expected = {
+ one => "foo",
+ two => "foobar",
+ three => "foo,bar,baz",
+};
+
+for my $action ( keys %{$expected} ) {
+ ok( my $response = request('http://localhost/engine/response/print/' . $action ),
+ 'Request' );
+ ok( $response->is_success, "Response $action successful 2xx" );
+
+ is( $response->content, $expected->{$action}, "Content $action OK" );
+}


--
ilmari
"A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is,
at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

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