On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, D Perrett wrote:
This is something that I have been struggling with as well. My experience is working on something ( https://github.com/pdl/Articulate/ ) which I hope will become a very flexible base for CMSs of all sorts. I started off with it being a collection of Dancer1 plugins which worked together but the problem of "which app do I belong to" (which Dancer2, quite correctly, as far as
You are right.
I'm concerned, forces you to think about) meant I had to consolidate it into a single mega-plugin which had subcomponents which explicitly know about each other - one of which is a framework adapter which works on either Dancer1 or Dancer2 (and possibly more). At the moment I'm quite happy about that and breathing easy because it was possible to reduce the interactions with Dancer to a couple of fairly contained components (even though the interface is still a bit ramshackle at present). That approach may be excessive for plugins to implement themselves, but having a generic 'DancerX::Plugin' class that does that stuff for you would be very nice. I also agree that it would be a massive help (possibly a prerequisite of the above) to have a single object for either Dancer which behaved the same way and which provides methods equivalent to the functional interface that you get when you do either `use Dancer;` or `use Dancer appname => 'Foo';`, and I would definitely be wiling to help out if it was something Dancer core devs agreed in principle should happen. Daniel Details of how I'm doing it so far if you're curious: https://github.com/pdl/Articulate/blob/master/lib/Dancer/Plugin/Articulate.pm https://github.com/pdl/Articulate/blob/master/lib/Dancer2/Plugin/Articulate.pm
With a 'DancerX::Plugin' that could be only one.
https://github.com/pdl/Articulate/blob/master/lib/Articulate/FrameworkAdapter/Dancer1.pm https://github.com/pdl/Articulate/blob/master/lib/Articulate/FrameworkAdapter/Dancer2.pm
You implement a smal part of the DSL. If you make your FrameworkAdapter/Dancer* a Dancer plugin, I think you can do more. Maybe even use "normal" plugins. But your goal is to support other frameworks as well. I'm interested. ++ for your Moo skils. -- Henk _______________________________________________ dancer-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users
