[Dancer-users] New plugin

[David Precious]

On Thursday 14 July 2011 19:48:50 Stephen Fenwick-Paul wrote:
> The reservation with my design is that I was forced to use a route outside
> of /public to  transform the image.
> 
> I really would have liked to be able to,
> 
> if my original image was,
> 
> /images/fred.jpg
> 
>  to have done the below to transform it
> 
> /images/fred.jpg?h=50&w=200
> 
> but I was forced to
> 
> /resize/images/fred.jpg?h=50&w=200
> 
> as Oleg effectively has
> 
> Is there a way of getting a user defined route to intercept a file in
> /public?

Assuming that you're not serving up static files directly via e.g. nginx, then 
I think a before filter should be able to catch requests that would otherwise 
have been served straight out of the public dir... maybe something vaguely 
like:

before sub {
    if (request->path =~ m{^/images}) {
        handle_resize();
    }
};

I'm not sure that params will have been parsed, though, if it's being treated 
as a static route.

I think the way you've implemented it is quite probably a better option.




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