You want Apache::Dispatch. It's almost exactly what you are looking for
(and it really rocks, IMHO).
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Nouguier wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Fist of all, sorry for my bad english...
>
> We "think/found" a technic to manage user action through a web
> interface. And I like to know your opinion about it.
>
> The goal is to trigger actions through the server without using cgi ( or
> mod_perl ) fake pages.
>
> The actions are managed by a Content Handler on a location:
> <Location /action>
>
> An example is better than long ( bad writen text ) so:
>
>
> /action/Client/Add
>
> Is parsed to obtains an object type ( "Client" ) and an action to
> perform ( "Add" )
>
> $object = "Client"
> $method = "Add"
>
> and posted data are read in $fdat ( hash table ref )
>
> Then a perl package is found regarding the object type.
>
> $package = MyNameSpace::Client;
>
> An the action is called on that package.
>
> The problem we have was that we wanted the handler to be able to call
> any function available on any authorised package, whithout using a
> dispatcher
> with a long
> if() {
> }elsif(){
> }elsif(){
> }else{
> }
>
> To sumup, here want we are doing:
>
> 1: parsing URI, to obtain a package and a method
>
> 2: look if action is allowed on that package, by this user ( with a
> session management ).
>
> 3: build a string $str = 'MyNameSpace::Client->Add( $session, $fdat
> )', $fdat are the data posted throught the handler
>
> 4: calling $return = eval $str.
>
> 5: find a redirection page for that ( package, action, result )
>
> That all, it's work fine and it's allowing to call package/object methods whithout
>having fake pages to maintains.
>
> Comments are very, very welcomes
>
> --
> Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
>
>
>
>
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