I am wanting to not have perl dancers default 404 "Sorry, this is the void." response come up when ever a matching route cannot be found. I also need to do some other task such as error logging when ever this happens.
Here is dancers documentation i followed on creating a default route. https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2::Cookbook#Default-Route
This is what i have at the bottom of my main routes file
any qr{.*} => sub {
status 404;
template 'test_error_template', { path => request->path };
};
The problem is i still keep getting the default dancer 404 message if an invalid route is requested. Somehow this route is not being picked up.
This is what comes up in development.log if i try going to a non existing route
[server:5931] core @2020-01-22 10:31:55> looking for get /non_existing_route in /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Dancer2/Core/App.pm l. 36
[server:5931] core @2020-01-22 10:31:55> Entering hook core.error.init in (eval 230) l. 1
[server:5931] core @2020-01-22 10:31:55> Entering hook core.error.before in (eval 230) l. 1
[server:5931] core @2020-01-22 10:31:55> Entering hook core.error.after in (eval 230) l. 1
Can anyone help? I do have more than one routes files, could this be part of the issue?
Thanks
So in my case the problem was having a prefix set in the routes file. The default route wouldn't get triggered unless i included the prefix in the url. Eg /myprefix/invalid_route
would call the default route but just calling /invalid_route
wouldn't, resulting in the 404 error. I have not completely come up with a work around as yet but this does at least answer my original question.
Edit:
Solved it. I created a new route file default.pm that contains only the default route with prefix '/' and put it last in app.psgi. This way it is reached only when all else fails.
app.psgi
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use main_routes;
use default;
myapp->to_app;
default.pm
package default;
prefix '/';
any qr{.*} => sub {
#log and do other stuff here
return 'my default route';
};
true;