On Mon, 1 May 2006, Lionel MARTIN wrote:
If the book had to be written again, presenting a sample website, as what is
done in the current version of the book with the apprentice site, which style
would have it presented to the reader?
A really good question. The example in the book is a bit artificial, in
that instead of module-izing everything, I left more code than I usually
would in the components, because I was afraid that otherwise the example
would be filled with "magic" calls to modules that weren't documented (in
the book).
Here's what I wrote near the end of that chapter:
As we mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, we wanted to make this
site small enough to show you in a single chapter (albeit a rather long
chapter), and we sometimes avoided using some features of Alzabo that
could have simplified some of the code in order to avoid getting
sidetracked into an Alzabo how-to.
Nowadays, I'd probably do even more module-ization. Another big change is
that I now handle form submissions outside of Mason, in module code, and
then simply redirect back to an appropriate URI.
Recently I've been playing around with more RESTian URIs, rather than
.html pages, and I'm doing this without using dhandlers, since this seems
more like something Apache should do (either via mod_rewrite or a mod_perl
module hooking into an early request phase).
If I were to rewrite the chapter nowadays, I'd probably just bite the
bullet and move everything I could out of components, assuming that with
good naming readers would follow along and figure out what the module APIs
did. I'd also show how to mix the use of Mason for content display and
pure Perl modules for handling of other requests.
-dave
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