Question

What is the difference between $c->uri_for and $c->uri_for_action methods of Catalyst.

Which one to use? And why?

Answer 1

I found below difference between $c->uri_for and $c->uri_for_action

Consider

Othercontroller.pm

__PACKAGE__->config(namespace => 'Hello');

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sub bar: Local{

$c->res->redirect($c->uri_for('yourcontroller/method_name'));

$c->res->redirect($c->uri_for_action('yourcontroller/method_name'));

}

Yourcontroller.pm

sub method_name: Local{

print "In Yourcontroller:: method_name"

}

In case of $c->uri_for the url changes to

http://localhost:3000/Hello/yourcontroller/method_name

However for $c->uri_for_action the url changes to

 http://localhost:3000/yourcontroller/method_name

So the namespace gets added in case of uri_for.