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NAME

       Catalyst::Request - provides information about the current client request

SYNOPSIS

           $req = $c->request;
           $req->address eq "127.0.0.1";
           $req->arguments;
           $req->args;
           $req->base;
           $req->body;
           $req->body_data;
           $req->body_parameters;
           $req->content_encoding;
           $req->content_length;
           $req->content_type;
           $req->cookie;
           $req->cookies;
           $req->header;
           $req->headers;
           $req->hostname;
           $req->input;
           $req->query_keywords;
           $req->match;
           $req->method;
           $req->param;
           $req->parameters;
           $req->params;
           $req->path;
           $req->protocol;
           $req->query_parameters;
           $req->read;
           $req->referer;
           $req->secure;
           $req->captures;
           $req->upload;
           $req->uploads;
           $req->uri;
           $req->user;
           $req->user_agent;
           $req->env;

       See also Catalyst, Catalyst::Request::Upload.

DESCRIPTION

       This is the Catalyst Request class, which provides an interface to data for the current
       client request. The request object is prepared by Catalyst::Engine, thus hiding the
       details of the particular engine implementation.

METHODS

   $req->address
       Returns the IP address of the client.

   $req->arguments
       Returns a reference to an array containing the arguments.

           print $c->request->arguments->[0];

       For example, if your action was

           package MyApp::Controller::Foo;

           sub moose : Local {
               ...
           }

       and the URI for the request was "http://.../foo/moose/bah", the string "bah" would be the
       first and only argument.

       Arguments get automatically URI-unescaped for you.

   $req->args
       Shortcut for "arguments".

   $req->base
       Contains the URI base. This will always have a trailing slash. Note that the URI scheme
       (e.g., http vs. https) must be determined through heuristics; depending on your server
       configuration, it may be incorrect. See $req->secure for more info.

       If your application was queried with the URI "http://localhost:3000/some/path" then "base"
       is "http://localhost:3000/".

   $req->body
       Returns the message body of the request, as returned by HTTP::Body: a string, unless
       Content-Type is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "text/xml", or "multipart/form-data",
       in which case a File::Temp object is returned.

   $req->body_data
       Returns a Perl representation of body data that is not classic HTML form data, such as
       JSON, XML, etc.  By default, Catalyst will parse incoming data of the type
       'application/json' for POST, PUT, PATCH or DELETE methods, and return access to that data
       via this method.

       You may define addition data_handlers via a global configuration setting.  See
       "Catalyst\DATA HANDLERS" for more information.

       If the body is malformed in some way (such as undefined or not content that matches the
       content-type) we raise a Catalyst::Exception with the error text as the message.

       If the body content type does not match an available data handler, this will also raise an
       exception.

   $req->body_parameters
       Returns a reference to a hash containing body (POST) parameters. Values can be either a
       scalar or an arrayref containing scalars.

           print $c->request->body_parameters->{field};
           print $c->request->body_parameters->{field}->[0];

       These are the parameters from the POST part of the request, if any.

       NOTE If your POST is multipart, but contains non file upload parts (such as an line part
       with an alternative encoding or content type) we do our best to try and figure out how the
       value should be presented.  If there's a specified character set we will use that to
       decode rather than the default encoding set by the application.  However if there are
       complex headers and we cannot determine the correct way to extra a meaningful value from
       the upload, in this case any part like this will be represented as an instance of
       Catalyst::Request::PartData.

       Patches and review of this part of the code welcomed.

   $req->body_params
       Shortcut for body_parameters.

   $req->content_encoding
       Shortcut for $req->headers->content_encoding.

   $req->content_length
       Shortcut for $req->headers->content_length.

   $req->content_type
       Shortcut for $req->headers->content_type.

   $req->cookie
       A convenient method to access $req->cookies.

           $cookie  = $c->request->cookie('name');
           @cookies = $c->request->cookie;

   $req->cookies
       Returns a reference to a hash containing the cookies.

           print $c->request->cookies->{mycookie}->value;

       The cookies in the hash are indexed by name, and the values are CGI::Simple::Cookie
       objects.

   $req->header
       Shortcut for $req->headers->header.

   $req->headers
       Returns an HTTP::Headers object containing the headers for the current request.

           print $c->request->headers->header('X-Catalyst');

   $req->hostname
       Returns the hostname of the client. Use "$req->uri->host" to get the hostname of the
       server.

   $req->input
       Alias for $req->body.

   $req->query_keywords
       Contains the keywords portion of a query string, when no '=' signs are present.

           http://localhost/path?some+keywords

           $c->request->query_keywords will contain 'some keywords'

   $req->match
       This contains the matching part of a Regex action. Otherwise it returns the same as
       'action', except for default actions, which return an empty string.

   $req->method
       Contains the request method ("GET", "POST", "HEAD", etc).

   $req->param
       Returns GET and POST parameters with a CGI.pm-compatible param method. This is an
       alternative method for accessing parameters in $c->req->parameters.

           $value  = $c->request->param( 'foo' );
           @values = $c->request->param( 'foo' );
           @params = $c->request->param;

       Like CGI, and unlike earlier versions of Catalyst, passing multiple arguments to this
       method, like this:

           $c->request->param( 'foo', 'bar', 'gorch', 'quxx' );

       will set the parameter "foo" to the multiple values "bar", "gorch" and "quxx". Previously
       this would have added "bar" as another value to "foo" (creating it if it didn't exist
       before), and "quxx" as another value for "gorch".

       NOTE this is considered a legacy interface and care should be taken when using it. "scalar
       $c->req->param( 'foo' )" will return only the first "foo" param even if multiple are
       present; "$c->req->param( 'foo' )" will return a list of as many are present, which can
       have unexpected consequences when writing code of the form:

           $foo->bar(
               a => 'b',
               baz => $c->req->param( 'baz' ),
           );

       If multiple "baz" parameters are provided this code might corrupt data or cause a hash
       initialization error. For a more straightforward interface see "$c->req->parameters".

       NOTE Interfaces like this, which are based on CGI and the "param" method are known to
       cause demonstrated exploits. It is highly recommended that you avoid using this method,
       and migrate existing code away from it.  Here's a whitepaper of the exploit:

       <http://blog.gerv.net/2014/10/new-class-of-vulnerability-in-perl-web-applications/>

       NOTE Further discussion on IRC indicate that the Catalyst core team from 'back then' were
       well aware of this hack and this is the main reason we added the new approach to getting
       parameters in the first place.

       Basically this is an exploit that takes advantage of how \param will do one thing in
       scalar context and another thing in list context.  This is combined with how Perl chooses
       to deal with duplicate keys in a hash definition by overwriting the value of existing keys
       with a new value if the same key shows up again.  Generally you will be vulnerable to this
       exploit if you are using this method in a direct assignment in a hash, such as with a
       DBIx::Class create statement.  For example, if you have parameters like:

           user?user=123&foo=a&foo=user&foo=456

       You could end up with extra parameters injected into your method calls:

           $c->model('User')->create({
             user => $c->req->param('user'),
             foo => $c->req->param('foo'),
           });

       Which would look like:

           $c->model('User')->create({
             user => 123,
             foo => qw(a user 456),
           });

       (or to be absolutely clear if you are not seeing it):

           $c->model('User')->create({
             user => 456,
             foo => 'a',
           });

       Possible remediations include scrubbing your parameters with a form validator like
       HTML::FormHandler or being careful to force scalar context using the scalar keyword:

           $c->model('User')->create({
             user => scalar($c->req->param('user')),
             foo => scalar($c->req->param('foo')),
           });

       Upcoming versions of Catalyst will disable this interface by default and require you to
       positively enable it should you require it for backwards compatibility reasons.

   $req->parameters
       Returns a reference to a hash containing GET and POST parameters. Values can be either a
       scalar or an arrayref containing scalars.

           print $c->request->parameters->{field};
           print $c->request->parameters->{field}->[0];

       This is the combination of "query_parameters" and "body_parameters".

   $req->params
       Shortcut for $req->parameters.

   $req->path
       Returns the path, i.e. the part of the URI after $req->base, for the current request.

           http://localhost/path/foo

           $c->request->path will contain 'path/foo'

   $req->path_info
       Alias for path, added for compatibility with CGI.

   $req->protocol
       Returns the protocol (HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1) used for the current request.

   $req->query_parameters
   $req->query_params
       Returns a reference to a hash containing query string (GET) parameters. Values can be
       either a scalar or an arrayref containing scalars.

           print $c->request->query_parameters->{field};
           print $c->request->query_parameters->{field}->[0];

   $req->read( [$maxlength] )
       Reads a chunk of data from the request body. This method is intended to be used in a while
       loop, reading $maxlength bytes on every call. $maxlength defaults to the size of the
       request if not specified.

   $req->read_chunk(\$buff, $max)
       Reads a chunk.

       You have to set MyApp->config(parse_on_demand => 1) to use this directly.

   $req->referer
       Shortcut for $req->headers->referer. Returns the referring page.

   $req->secure
       Returns true or false, indicating whether the connection is secure (https). The
       reliability of $req->secure may depend on your server configuration; Catalyst relies on
       PSGI to determine whether or not a request is secure (Catalyst looks at psgi.url_scheme),
       and different PSGI servers may make this determination in different ways (as by directly
       passing along information from the server, interpreting any of several HTTP headers, or
       using heuristics of their own).

   $req->captures
       Returns a reference to an array containing captured args from chained actions or regex
       captures.

           my @captures = @{ $c->request->captures };

   $req->upload
       A convenient method to access $req->uploads.

           $upload  = $c->request->upload('field');
           @uploads = $c->request->upload('field');
           @fields  = $c->request->upload;

           for my $upload ( $c->request->upload('field') ) {
               print $upload->filename;
           }

   $req->uploads
       Returns a reference to a hash containing uploads. Values can be either a
       Catalyst::Request::Upload object, or an arrayref of Catalyst::Request::Upload objects.

           my $upload = $c->request->uploads->{field};
           my $upload = $c->request->uploads->{field}->[0];

   $req->uri
       Returns a URI object for the current request. Stringifies to the URI text.

   $req->mangle_params( { key => 'value' }, $appendmode);
       Returns a hashref of parameters stemming from the current request's params, plus the ones
       supplied.  Keys for which no current param exists will be added, keys with undefined
       values will be removed and keys with existing params will be replaced.  Note that you can
       supply a true value as the final argument to change behavior with regards to existing
       parameters, appending values rather than replacing them.

       A quick example:

         # URI query params foo=1
         my $hashref = $req->mangle_params({ foo => 2 });
         # Result is query params of foo=2

       versus append mode:

         # URI query params foo=1
         my $hashref = $req->mangle_params({ foo => 2 }, 1);
         # Result is query params of foo=1&foo=2

       This is the code behind "uri_with".

   $req->uri_with( { key => 'value' } );
       Returns a rewritten URI object for the current request. Key/value pairs passed in will
       override existing parameters. You can remove an existing parameter by passing in an undef
       value. Unmodified pairs will be preserved.

       You may also pass an optional second parameter that puts "uri_with" into append mode:

         $req->uri_with( { key => 'value' }, { mode => 'append' } );

       See "mangle_params" for an explanation of this behavior.

   $req->remote_user
       Returns the value of the "REMOTE_USER" environment variable.

   $req->user_agent
       Shortcut to $req->headers->user_agent. Returns the user agent (browser) version string.

   $req->io_fh
       Returns a psgix.io bidirectional socket, if your server supports one.  Used for when you
       want to jailbreak out of PSGI and handle bidirectional client server communication
       manually, such as when you are using cometd or websockets.

SETUP METHODS

       You should never need to call these yourself in application code, however they are useful
       if extending Catalyst by applying a request role.

   $self->prepare_headers()
       Sets up the "$res->headers" accessor.

   $self->prepare_body()
       Sets up the body using HTTP::Body

   $self->prepare_body_chunk()
       Add a chunk to the request body.

   $self->prepare_body_parameters()
       Sets up parameters from body.

   $self->prepare_cookies()
       Parse cookies from header. Sets up a CGI::Simple::Cookie object.

   $self->prepare_connection()
       Sets up various fields in the request like the local and remote addresses, request method,
       hostname requested etc.

   $self->prepare_parameters()
       Ensures that the body has been parsed, then builds the parameters, which are combined from
       those in the request and those in the body.

       If parameters have already been set will clear the parameters and build them again.

   $self->env
       Access to the raw PSGI env.

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AUTHORS

       Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm

COPYRIGHT

       This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.