On 30 November 2010 22:26, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 11:31:56 David Schmidt wrote:
another great module which from my perception is used the most lately is
HTML::FormHandler
http://search.cpan.org/~gshank/HTML-FormHandler-0.32005/
I can recommend *against* HTML-FormHandler.
For my day job's Perl and Catalyst project, we initially decided to go with
HTML-FormHandler, only to discover it was buggy, quirky and had severe memory
leaks. We ended up doing many workarounds and recently made a transition from
it to HTML-FormFu, which while by no means perfect, is much saner.
My co-worker nothingmuch who has done many of the workarounds can provide
further comments on it. Recently I had to over-ride a role in the login form
(for which we need to use HTML-FormHandler due to CatalystX::SimpleLogin) that
will accept an empty string as the 'action=' attribute because it only
placed true values of the attribute there, which ruled out empty strings. But
I recall many other fun hours debugging HTML-FormHandler.
I hit issues with FormHandler and HFH::Model::DBIC having issues with
empty strings vs definedness too, but it was a few months ago. I
submitted some patches that were accepted a few versions back and it's
been pretty good for me since. The code is reasonably logical and easy
to work with, I felt.
By comparison, a major app I built on FormFu earlier in the year
resulted in epic debugging and terribly complex and not-at-all-logical
forms, and the problems seemed more deeply ingrained. (That was a
medium version number at least ago.)
They both have their weaknesses, but having used both, I definitely
think HFH is the way to go at the moment.
Both modules have good authors who are helpful and actively developing.
Cheers,
Toby
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