Bill Moseley wrote:
I'm exploring the idea of breaking up a large application into a
number of separate Catalyst apps. The application currently exists of
a base application and a number of optional "products." For example,
one product might be to add a calendar and scheduling to the application.
The base application has layout templates that all "products" need to
use. So each app would need to share a template path. Also, each
product would need access to application-wide configuration.
The reason I'm looking at this approach is so that different teams of
developers can work on the products, test products separately, and
release the products on different schedules.
Anyone building applications out of multiple small Catalyst
applications like this? How do you set up the apps to share templates
and a config? Anything more interesting than passing in paths?
One downside of this approach is we end up with a handful of very
similar looking applications (same set of plugins, etc.), not to
mention have to be careful about how session data is shared, and so
on. I wounder if it would be difficulst to customize the catalyst.pl
script to include a standard set of plugins/roles that we use in every
application -- e.g. have a skeleton app.
Subclass. This could probably take care of sharing the template/config
resources also, but otherwise I'd probably lean towards symlinking over
modifying each app.
Oh, just noticed:
$ cat MyApp/myapp.conf
# rename this file to MyApp.yml and put a ':' in front of 'name' if
# you want to use YAML like in old versions of Catalyst
name MyApp
ConfigLoader looks for lower case file names, right? That is,
shouldn't that be "myapp.yml"?
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