Catalyst::Response - stores output responding to the current client request


NAME

Catalyst::Response - stores output responding to the current client request


SYNOPSIS

    $res = $c->response;
    $res->body;
    $res->content_encoding;
    $res->content_length;
    $res->content_type;
    $res->cookies;
    $res->header;
    $res->headers;
    $res->output;
    $res->redirect;
    $res->status;
    $res->write;


DESCRIPTION

This is the Catalyst Response class, which provides methods for responding to the current client request. The appropriate the Catalyst::Engine manpage for your environment will turn the Catalyst::Response into a HTTP Response and return it to the client.


METHODS

$res->body(<$text|$fh|$iofh_object)

    $c->response->body('Catalyst rocks!');

Sets or returns the output (text or binary data). If you are returning a large body, you might want to use a the IO::FileHandle manpage type of object (Something that implements the read method in the same fashion), or a filehandle GLOB. Catalyst will write it piece by piece into the response.

$res->content_encoding

Shortcut for $res->headers->content_encoding.

$res->content_length

Shortcut for $res->headers->content_length.

$res->content_type

Shortcut for $res->headers->content_type.

This value is typically set by your view or plugin. For example, the Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple manpage will guess the mime type based on the file it found, while the Catalyst::View::TT manpage defaults to text/html.

$res->cookies

Returns a reference to a hash containing cookies to be set. The keys of the hash are the cookies' names, and their corresponding values are hash references used to construct a the CGI::Cookie manpage object.

    $c->response->cookies->{foo} = { value => '123' };

The keys of the hash reference on the right correspond to the the CGI::Cookie manpage parameters of the same name, except they are used without a leading dash. Possible parameters are:

value
expires
domain
path
secure

$res->header

Shortcut for $res->headers->header.

$res->headers

Returns an the HTTP::Headers manpage object, which can be used to set headers.

    $c->response->headers->header( 'X-Catalyst' => $Catalyst::VERSION );

$res->output

Alias for $res->body.

$res->redirect( $url, $status )

Causes the response to redirect to the specified URL.

    $c->response->redirect( 'http://slashdot.org' );
    $c->response->redirect( 'http://slashdot.org', 307 );

$res->status

Sets or returns the HTTP status.

    $c->response->status(404);
    
=head2 $res->write( $data )

Writes $data to the output stream.


AUTHORS

Sebastian Riedel, sri@cpan.org

Marcus Ramberg, mramberg@cpan.org


COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

 Catalyst::Response - stores output responding to the current client request