I've placed up at
http://people.apache.org/~randyk/
a couple of modules that provide a mod_perl2 interface
to two Ajax-related packages:
- Apache2-Ajax-0.1.tar.gz: a mod_perl2 interface
to CGI::Ajax, which provides a mechanism for using perl
code asynchronously from javascript-enhanced HTML pages.
- Apache2-Autocomplete-0.1.tar.gz: a mod_perl2 interface
to JavaScript::Autocomplete::Backend, which is a base
class for implementing an autocomplete service
for a form using the Google Suggest protocol.
Both modules require a CGI.pm-compatible module to provide,
in particular, param() and header() methods to,
respectively, fetch parameters and to set the headers.
If the memory requirements of CGI.pm are a concern in a
mod_perl environment, you may want to try
- CGI-Apache2-Ajax-0.1.tar.gz
from the same location - this provides param() and
header() methods via mod_perl2 and librapreq2.
Apache2::Ajax and Apache2::Autocomplete will use
CGI::Apache2::Ajax if available, and if not will use
CGI.pm (version 2.93 or greater).
I'd be interested in any comments about these
packages, including their names. CGI::Apache2::Ajax
was tentatively chosen because, first of all, it only
provides CGI.pm-compatible methods that the above two
Ajax-related applications need, and also, CGI::Ajax
expects the CGI object to satisfy
ref($cgi) =~ /^CGI.*/
Note though that, due to the nature of the APR::* modules
used, CGI::Apache2::Ajax can also be used in a CGI
environment. Thanks.
--
best regards,
Randy Kobes
