Fellow monks,


I'm having a slight problem with mason: =[


So here it is: I have an autohandler: /auth_required/autohandler and I want it to throw different useful error messages at different parts if authentication fails. These error messages are stored in /index.html, in separate method which makes another method call with content to reload the login form with the appropriate message prefixed: 
<%method .non_auth>
  <div class="small_text">
    <h1><% $m->content %>You are not logged in:</h1>
    If you don't have a login, Click <a href="/create_user.html">here<
+/a> to create one.
  </div>
  <form method="post" action="/index.html">
    <table class="form_fields">
      <tr>
        <td>User Name: </td>
        <td><input type="text" name="name_user" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Password: </td>
        <td><input type="password" name="password" value="" alt="Requi
+red only for admins"/></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <div style="text-align:right">
      <input type="submit" value="Proceed" />
    </div>
  </form>
</%method>

%# Invalid user name or password OR username deleted from table
<%method .error_auth>
  <&| SELF:.non_auth &>101: Invalid username or password,  </&>
</%method>

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Essentially what I would like to do is create a subrequest out of a method located in a different component. So if the autohandler at /auth_required/autohandler, fails /index.html's .error_auth or similar gets invoked, which causes the error to precede 'You are not logged in'; with a useful message.

One way around this problem would be to call the method from /auth_required/autohandler. But, that should be _bad-practice_, because I would have to clear the buffer ($m->flush_buffer) and abort ($m->abort)which would mean I miss out on the header and footer information in /autohandler.

Another method would be to extract each error message into its own file so I can make a subrequest ($m->subexec) out of it or redirect ($m->redirect) to it. This isn't a "Bad" approach per se, but I would prefer to keep all of my error messages in one file, for quicker referencing.

Any ideas?


Evan Carroll
www.EvanCarroll.com

In reply to Problem with Mason, can it be solved with a subrequest? by EvanCarroll

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