Adding a extra field in url but avoiding that field in url handling of Catalyst framework

Question

Suppose I have a url

http://www.somesite.com/path/to/catalyst/controller

And I want to redirect this to

http://www.somesite.com/extra-part/path/to/catalyst/controller

This extra-part should only be in url, And should not be considered for URL handling of Catalyst.

I found that, we can inherit/override prepare_path method for this but I couldn't use it properly.

I found this link for that : Catalyst Wiki

But still help needed.

Answer 1

Inside of lib/MyApp.pm I have a function prepare_path that looks like this:

sub prepare_path {
  my $c = shift;

  $c->maybe::next::method( @_ ) ;
  my $base_uri_prefix = $c->config->{base_uri_prefix} ;
  my @path_chunks = split m[/], $c->request->path, -1;

  if (@path_chunks && $path_chunks[0] eq $base_uri_prefix ) {
    shift @path_chunks ;

    # Create modified request path from any remaining path chunks:
    my $path = join( '/' , @path_chunks ) || '/' ;

    # Stuff modified request path back into request:
    $c->request->path( $path ) ;
  } else {
    # Modify the path part of the URI to look as if it had a prefix:
    $c->request->uri->path( "$base_uri_prefix/" . $c->request->path ) ;
  }
}

And in myapp.conf is defined:

base_uri_prefix   extra-part