Perl Dancer and defining routes with named parameters and nested prefixes - perl

Question

Recently I have been working with Dancer to create a application, but I am having difficulties figuring out how to define the routes.
package MyApp;
use Dancer ':syntax';
our $VERSION = '0.1';
# Base for routing of requests
# Match against /:validate
any '/:validate' => sub {
# This assumes we can stop the routing here
# validate the request param in the url string
# against a regex and 'pass' the request to a
# specific route with the 'var' option
var validate => params->{validate};
.....
# Validation works and dancer passes successfully
pass();
};
# This is the part that is not working
prefix '/info' => sub {
..... # does stuff
}; ## back to the root
In the dancer logs for the pass:
[25561] core #0.001133> [hit #1]Last matching route passed! in
/usr/local/share/perl5/Dancer/Route.pm l. 216
In the dancer logs for anything after the pass:
[25781] core #0.001524> [hit #4]Trying to match 'GET /11121/info/'
against /^/info$/ (generated from '/info') in
/usr/local/share/perl5/Dancer/Route.pm l. 84 [25781] core #0.002041>
[hit #4]response: 404 in /usr/local/share/perl5/Dancer/Handler.pm l.
179
It is probably something simple I am missing, but I have not had any luck so far. Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT I did notice I was using prefix incorrectly so I fixed that and I apologize for the bad explanation. In a nut shell the first part of the url localhost:3000/12/ for example is a database record. All routes are build on that record being the first part of the url string so I want to validate it prior to going any further into the routes.
I was able to setup a before hook which grabs it and can work with the params hash, but it is getting a 500 error on non-matching patterns currently.
hook before => sub {
my $route_handler = shift;
var record => params->{record};
my $record = var 'record';
while ($record !~ m/^ID[\-]\d{3,6}$/) { # Check for valid ID
if ($record =~ m/^\d{3,6}$/) { # Works currently
$record = 'ID-'.$record;
}else {forward "/error"}; # this = 500 ISE error
}
};
I tried a forward and send_error but both generate an ISE and Dancer reports this on the last entry in the log:
29661] core #0.001048> [hit #2]entering before hook in
/usr/local/share/perl5/Dancer/Hook.pm l. 58
Any help is greatly appreciated, also an edit to make my question more clear is welcomed.

Answer 1

That is not what prefix does. Prefix is used to declare the prefix of the routes in the current package.
prefix '/users';
get '/' => sub { ... }; # matches /users
post '/add' => sub { ... }; # matches /users/add
get '/view/:id' => sub { ... }; # matches /users/view/123

Answer 2

I haven't worked with Dancer at all, but from the Dancer::Introduction docs, it looks like you also have to define a route inside the prefix /info. Try with:
# This is the part that is not working
prefix '/info' => sub {
get '/' => sub {
..... # does stuff
}
}; ## back to the root