I started playing with CGI::Application earlier today and am so far impressed with how much it simplifies my life (well that and HTML::Template).

My only problem is that I am trying to implement a error_mode for unspecified run_modes as specified in the docs by adding a handler to AUTOLOAD. However it only runs on &rm=AUTOLOAD and not unspecified runmodes like &rm=blah. I'm probably forgetting something obvious but it looks right. Here's the slimmed down code. 

package LocalSite::InquiryQueryApp;
use LocalSite::InquiryUtils;
use base 'CGI::Application';
use strict;

sub setup{
    my $self=shift;
    $self->start_mode('query');
    $self->mode_param('rm');
    $self->run_modes(
       'query'=>\&query_mode,
       'display'=>\&display_mode,
       "AUTOLOAD"=>\&error_mode
    );
    #get our database connection
    $self->param('dbh'=>getDbConnection);
}

sub query_mode{
   my $self=shift;
   my $query=$self->query();
   my $str="<HTML><BODY>Query Mode</BODY></HTML>";
   return $str;
}

sub error_mode{
  my $self=shift;
  my $rm=shift;
  my $str="<HTML><BODY>Error: you have chosen an invalid runmode</BODY
+></HTML>";
  return $str;
}

sub display_mode{
   my $self=shift;
   my $query=$self->query();
   my $str="<HTML><BODY>Display Mode</BODY></HTML>";
   return $str;
}

sub teardown{
    my $self=shift;
    $self->param('dbh')->disconnect();
}

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vroom | Tim Vroom | vroom@blockstackers.com

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