Only you know how to link to stuff in your web application, so no size will ever fit all; a generalized solution will probably never meet all requirements.

Here's what I usually do: I write my own modules (classes really) that represent the different entities that the web application deals with, such as users, articles, hosts or whatever. Each of those modules (classes) include a link() method which "knows" what an URL for that particular entity should look like. This method is passed with a hash argument where I pass on all the arguments that the current Mason component was called with. Example: 

<TABLE class="items">
% foreach my $item (@items) {
<TR><TD><% $item->link( %ARGS ) %></TD></TR>
% }
</TABLE>

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The corresponding Item.pm module might contain something like this: 
sub link {
  my $self = shift;
  my %args = @_;

  $args{'foo'} ||= "default";
  $args{'bar'} ||= "values";

  return '<A href="/path/to/item.html?id='.$self->id.'&foo='.$args{'fo
+o'}.'&bar='.$args{'bar'}.'>'.$self->name.'</A>';
}

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There might be other elegant solutions but this approach has worked brilliantly for me over the years.

-- Time flies when you don't know what you're doing

In reply to Re: Links between Mason components? by FloydATC
in thread Links between Mason components? by tye

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