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Mojolicious url_for: absolute path

I'm currently trying to port one of my smaller catalyst apps to Mojolicious (just for the fun of it).

Say that we are on a page: http://whatever.com/generate. On that page there is a link to for example "generated"

When using catalyst (with TT templates) and you define the link as

uri_for 'generated'

it will generate a link to http://whatever.com/generate/generated But if you define it as

uri_for '/generated'

it will generate a link to http://whatever.com/generated

I tried to do the same with Mojolicious' url_for, but it seems to work differently. It doesn't make a differnece wether I call

url_for 'generated'

or

url_for '/generated'

both calls generate a link to '/generate/generated'

So my question is: how do I make url_for generate a link to an absolute route. i.e. to '/generated'

Solution

  • url_for generates urls relative to app root. That was done for portability: you may place your app at any url and your links won't get broken.

    If you need an link to absolute path, why do you need url_for than? You can use just a string '/generated'.

    From other hand, if you really need Mojo::URL object you can get it with 

    <%= url_for->path('/generated') %>

    url_for when called without params returns current url