Gah.... Thanks, moritz.. 2am here and my coffee's runnin' low. haha that's the case i figure. I will give it a go tomorrow. Cheers!
Quoting Moritz Onken <[email protected]>: > > > > > > So it's the model I put the business logic in? That sounds ok, for > > > now. But what about this: > > * Input from the web has to be validated. May be I use > > Data::FormValidator, may be FormFu. However, I may have to > validate > > the params I get from the script (eg. data import from ERP > systems), > > too. Do I have to implement the validation again? And maybe > > normalization/converting, too? Or where would you place these > > functionality? Extra modules? > > You are not limited by the number of models. You can write a model > which does the form/data validation and which calls the dbic model to > > insert the data. Just place an extra layer between your controller > and > your dbic model. > > > * What about business logic that is in not only bound to a specific > > > schema but has an overall logic that fetches data from different > > tables, adds some somewhere and produces results? How would you > > implement such a logic? Any examples? > > I would write an extra model for this or you create a resultset class > > which can handle that. This very much depends on the data which is > needed. > > > * An example for using data and logic outside of the web app would > > > be generating invoices by night. That process would bring out some > > > PDFs which will be printed or sent by mail through another script. > > > Shouldn't a view be involved in this process that builds the PDFs > > > from templates? Is it possible to build this example upon a > > Catalyst web app? Examples? > > I use Template::Plugin::Latex to create a TeX document which is then > > converted to a pdf. But this is totally independent from catalyst. It > > is a script which is run once a day and generates the invoices. No > need to follow the MVC scheme here. > > If you plan to run those jobs with catalyst I'll suggest you have a > > look a job queue which can help you with that (e.g. TheSchwartz). > > > moritz > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ 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/
