Hiya, been a while...

I decided to re-write an OLD project using new techniques. This is not a "show me how to do my homework" question, I just keep reading around in circles, so here goes.

What I would like to code is a persistent SERVER in Perl that accepts a RESTful transaction from a PHP page running.

The Perl server accepts the transaction, sanity and security tests the CRUD request then makes an SNMP connection with a third network element (switch on the net) and returns the gathered MIB information back up to the RESTful caller in the PHP/Javascript code.

If this isn't bad enough ;-) I want to write the Perl server using Moose.

Any pointers Monks? I have been reading HTML::Engine and Plack. Nothing seems to quite fit. 


+------------+
|            |
| web page   |
|  <TEST>    |-------->+------------------+
|            |         | Perl Server      |
+------------+         | SNMP::Something  |
            ^          +------------------+
            |_____________|        |     ^
                                   |     |
                               +---\/----------+
                               | CISCO IOS MIB |
                               +---------------+

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My old way, the server is just a once off transaction and the message passing is a kludge using stdio and stderr and the code is awful!!!

All pointers appreciated. Ta. Marky.

Thanks for the suggestion (see title) and the links. I have Modern Perl, read it heaps of times and even implemented some code in a serious environment! But I need to sort this particular thingy out. Thanks for the stuff. The more the merrier... :-)

In reply to pointers for creating a persistent RESTful server using Moose by addinall

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