I would say don't use Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu in that case - the functionality it provides is rather basic.
By the way I am also working on a FormFu based CRUD Catalyst base class (continuation of Catalyst::Example::InstantCRUD). Looks like it has become fashionable thing recently. -- Zbigniew On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Byron Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Catalyst for a project and decided to make some base > controllers for common functionality. So far I've made two: CRUD, and > List, for standard database operations and for sortable, paged listings > of data. They work fine on their own but I'm running into trouble with > multiple inheritance. If I have a controller for some database table > that I want to inherit the actions from both CRUD and List, only the > first one inherited will initialize properly. > > The inheritance looks like this: > > Catalyst::Controller > / \ > / \ > / \ > / Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu > / | > MyApp::Base::Controller::List | > \ | > \ MyApp::Base::Controller::CRUD > \ / > \ / > \ / > MyApp::Controller::SomeDatabaseTable > > > Each of the controller base classes has a new() method which sets up > config data and does error checking and whatnot. If I inherit both of > my base classes, only new() on the first inherited is called. I've > tried calling $class->NEXT::new(@_) in each, and I've also tried > Class::C3's $class->maybe::next::method(@_), but new() is still not > called down the second inheritance chain. When I tried the Class::C3 > approach I called Class::C3::initialize() in MyApp.pm - I wasn't sure > where to call it so I tried before and after MyApp->setup() - still no > luck. > > Can somebody tell me why new() isn't called down both paths? > > Thanks, > Byron > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > -- Zbigniew Lukasiak http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
