I tend to use the excellent Import::Base from Doug Bell when I need to bring groups of my commonly used modules into an application. Check it out - I think you’ll find it useful!
Jason A. Crome / CromeDome CPAN: https://metacpan.org/author/CROMEDOME github: https://github.com/cromedome Twitter: https://twitter.com/cromedome > On Dec 15, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Steve Dondley <sdond...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here's the few lines from a hypothetical MainApp in /lib: > > # File 1 > package MainApp; > use ExtendingApp; > use HTML::Element; > > And here is a perl module that extends this app. > > # File 2 > package ExtendingApp; > use Dancer2 appname => MainApp; > > get '/' => sub { > my $element = HTML::Element->new('h1'); > }; > > ### END ### > > This works. I get no errors because the HTML::Element module can be seen > inside routes. However, unless I'm missing something, this doesn't work. > > # File 1 > package MainApp; > use ExtendingApp; > use Dancer2::Plugin::Database; > > # File 2 > package ExtendingApp; > use Dancer2 appname => MainApp; > > get '/' => sub { > my @data = database->quick_select('test_table', {}); > }; > > ### END ### > > The above results in an error: Can't locate object method "quick_select" via > package "database" (perhaps you forgot to load "database"?) > > I'm forced to add "use Dancer2::Plugin::Database" to File 2. I'm curious to > know if there's some way to import commonly used plugins into extension apps. > > Thanks! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dancer-users mailing list > dancer-users@dancer.pm > http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users _______________________________________________ dancer-users mailing list dancer-users@dancer.pm http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users
