On 12/12/05, Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Here is my scenario to how the dispatcher could work. Treat every path
> > as $app/$rm/@params. The dispatcher loads the $app and is defined
> > executes the run mode. The dispatcher would stash the remaining
> > elements (@params) for the run mode to optionally do something with.
> > The run mode would then assign, validate and handle errors.
> >
> > To me this is a lot more straight forward and lightweight then
> > creating an entire syntax to perform these functions IF you need them.
>
> A few things you don't seem to be considering:
> * I don't want my runmode name in my URL.
>     - I want to leave refactoring as a possibility in the future
>     - I want to hide information from potential attackers
> * I want to provide human-generatable URLs that map back to my
> runmodes. For example, /report/<format>/<report_name>?a=1&b=2 would
> map to My::App::Report::run() and the format doesn't get used until
> the print() function which is defined in My::App::Base. How does your
> system handle this?
> * I want to provide /reports?/<format> which maps to 
> My::App::Report::display()

The addon to what you are commenting on is if a run mode was defined
in the dispatch table the run mode is NOT extracted from the URL. I
think we moved passed this suggestion though.

> Yeah - TABLE needs to be an array, not a hash.

That was something that was carried over from how
CGI::Application::Dispatch currently operates. I agree that it will
have to change to an array reference to work as we are discussing.

<tim/>

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Timothy Appnel
http://www.timaoutloud.org/

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