On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Jonathan Swartz wrote: >> Putting all your controller logic, especially non-display logic (like form >> submission handling) in Mason components is a bad design (and yes, I know >> that's how the book's example site works ;) > > The jury's still out for me. I've been doing my own Catalyst site conversion, > and I had high hopes for the controller stuff, but so far I'm feeling > surprisingly underwhelmed. I feel like I'm expending a lot of extra energy > keeping related code in sync between modules & components, and shuffling > things from $c->params to $c->stash when I would have just used <%args> > before. The Catalyst pattern-based action handling is wonderful and flexible, > but the benefits of that haven't outweighed the extra work. So far. This is > still very much a work in progress.
I imagine there a lot of ways to automate the common patterns of populating the stash. One thing I've done with various MasonX::WebApp-based apps in the past was to check the incoming parameters for anything matching "object_id" (vendor_id, location_id, etc) and then use that to create a real object out of it. It's possible that this could end up being wasted effort occassionally, but most of the time when I've passed a parameter of that type I will want an object out of it. If you're using path-based parameters like "/vendor/15" I'm pretty sure this is what the Chained path bits in catalyst are designed to handle. -dave /*=================================================== VegGuide.Org www.BookIRead.com Your guide to all that's veg. My book blog ===================================================*/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
