I am cross posting this here on the off chance that anyone who heard me ramble incoherently a month ago about Reaction was interested. This is the first public incarnation of the module I described used to limit data availability at the model layer through the use of restricting methods, effectively making it very hard to accidentally leak that you shouldn't through careless programming. I know Ronald finally took the plunge and saw the ORM light, so maybe the rest of you should try it too! It's simpler than it looks, I promise. Full docs too. ---
This morning I shipped off to the CPAN the first version of DBIX::Class::Schema::RestrictWithObject. Originally hacked by mst as RestrictByUser, this handy-dandy DBIx::Class::Schema component allows you to automatically restrict your schemas with an object, meaning that all calls to resultset() will be intercepted and optionally filtered with a method in the restricting object. An example of a place where you could use this is a Catalyst application where you could restrict the schema of logged in users and automatically restrict their resultsets items that are associated with them. This example is in the POD. Why is this a plus? - Ability to centralize restrictions into one class / file making them easier to maintain and locate - Less complexity when using data sets. With careful programming you can be sure that you will not accidentally expose data by forgetting to filter it because it is filtered at the model level. - Less clutter in your application because the code to restrict data sets is in a different place. - Easy switching of restricting objects to support many different rule sets. By using Class::MOP or Moose you could conceivably generate new rule sets at runtime. Everyone loves Moose! Take it for a test drive and if you are not satisfied send me an email and I'll consider your suggestions. DBIx-Class-Schema-RestrictWithObject-0.0001<http://search.cpan.org/%7Egroditi/DBIx-Class-Schema-RestrictWithObject-0.0001/> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
