Hi Jason, First, to your specific questions: * The src/samples are mod_perl 1 specific, which is why they aren't working in your Apache/mod_perl 2 environment. It's hard to provide samples that work in both, we should probably just delete those. * $m->log should certainly work, what happens when you use it? Are you using the latest version of Mason?
More generally: * Mason is very stable so doesn't change much these days. * Mason 2 is in progress - see http://www.openswartz.com/2009/09/01/what-mason-2-0-would-look-like/ * In terms of providing web framework capabilities, Mason has been superseded by frameworks such as CGI::Application, Catalyst and Jifty. See http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?web_frameworks Once you choose a framework, you can choose to use Mason as a templating language, or something else such as Template::Toolkit or HTML::Template. Hope that helps, Jon On May 26, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > Hi - > Being very pleased to find HTML::Mason purporting to provide > everything I'd > expect from a Web-Programing framework (and alot more!) I was > disappointed > to find that many of the "$src/samples/*" or documentation code > example > snippets can be made to work only with major modication - for example > the "samples/dump-request" sample code produces the error: > > System error > error: Can't locate object method "header_in" via package > "Apache2::RequestRec" at /home/jason/public_html/cgi-bin/dump- > request.mcgi > line 18. > context: > ... > 14: $r-><a href="#uri">uri</a>( [$uri] ) = <% > $r->uri() > %><BR> > 15: $r-><a href="#filename">filename</a>( > [$filename] ) = <% $r->filename() %><BR> > 16: $r-><a href="#path_info">path_info</a>( > [$path_info] ) = <% $r->path_info() %><BR> > 17: $r-><a href="#args">args</a> = <% $r->args %><BR> > 18: $r-><a href="#header_in">header_in</a>( $header_name, > [$value] ) = <% $r->header_in("Content-type") %><BR> > 19: $r-><a href="#get_remote_host">get_remote_host</ > a> = <% $r- >> get_remote_host %><BR> > 20: $r-><a href="#requires">requires</a> = <% $r- > >requires %><BR> > 21: $r-><a href="#auth_type">auth_type</a> = <% $r- > >auth_type > %><BR> > 22: $r-><a href="#auth_name">auth_name</a> = <% $r- > >auth_name > %><BR> > ... > code stack: /home/jason/public_html/cgi-bin/dump-request.mcgi:18 > raw error > > This happens under both Fedora Core 12: > httpd-2.2.14-1.fc12.x86_64 > apr-devel-1.3.9-3.fc12.x86_64 > and RHEL-5: > httpd-2.2.3-43.el5 > apr-devel-1.2.7-11.el5_3.1 > . > > I'm trying to set a cookie value in a cgi script : > > my $Cookie = CGI::Cookie->new(-name=>'text2car_client', value=> > $cookie); > $r->header_out('Set-Cookie' => $Cookie ); > > How is one meant to do this in Mason without use of the header_out() > routine - > attempts to print a header even with '(CGI->new())->header(...)' end > up > including the header in the document data. > > Also, there is no $m->log object, as documented at > http://www.masonhq.com/docs/manual/Devel.html#logging > > Is HTML::Mason being maintained ? > > Is there any up-to-date documentation for it that contains working > examples ? > > I'm beginning to conclude that the answer to both questions is "NO" > and that I > should use the raw mod_perl / CGI.pm interfaces instead. > > I hope someone can disabuse me of this conclusion - as documented, > Mason looks > great, but it is currently not behaving as documented . > > Thanks in advance, > Jason. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mason-devel mailing list > mason-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
