mla wrote:
Clearly Catalyst has an opinion on how to handle the request
with Catalyst::Request. I'm sure you could override that somehow and
use your own, but it's helpful that there's a default request
interface that new developers can get up to speed quickly with.
I don't see why that can't apply to form creation and validation too.
Sure, if you don't like it, use something else, but for someone new
to Catalyst, having a Catalyst Way is helpful (unless we don't know
what a good way is).
The current consensus for building/validating forms seems to be around
CGI::FormBuilder via the Catalyst::Controller::FormBuilder base
controller. Personally I have some reservations about using FormBuilder
for validation, though am persisting with it for now. Someone recently
threatened to do a Data::FormValidator plugin for Catalyst. Would be
most welcome, but sadly is beyond my capabilities to do such a thing at
present.
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Richard Jones
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