Timothy Appnel wrote: > On 1/2/07, Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That's the Representation part of it. The idea is you can select >> different views (in MVC talk) based on the MIME type the client prefers. > > I'm not sure this part belongs in dispath really. I think its > reasonable to assume that the data lookup etc of a runmode like > people_GET would be about the same regardless of the format. To me > this something done at the end of a runmode or as an overloaded > load_tmpl. You may have multiple MIMEs going to the same runmode. For > instance you may be producing Atom output, but if someone requested > text/xml you'd return Atom anyway since its a form of XML. Conversely > you may be using XSLT which converts a generic XML representation into > a number of XML formats based on the conneg. I could also see > restricting certain formats based on permissions. You could define it > in the dispatcher, but you'd have to implement the > validation/authention for that in the application object. (This is why > I like the _HTTPMETHOD notation defining which methods are supported > are in one place -- the application module.)
I agree. This is just a decision on which presentation layer to use, not which module and run mode to use. I still don't using mixED CAse run mode names, but that's something that can be configured. -- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
