Re: CGI::Application, inheritance trees, and 'the right way'

There are a huge number of plugins for CGI::Application. The one you're looking for is CGI::Application::Dispatch. It will handle all those things for you in a simple fashion.

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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Re^2: CGI::Application, inheritance trees, and 'the right way' by drewbie (Chaplain) on Nov 02, 2004 at 18:45 UTC
Seconded. See my earlier reply to saberworks post. I've started using it in a real-world application and it works quite nicely. I have a couple patches into the author for some enhancements I needed, who seems willing to put them in. :-) If you're interested the patches include: Passing in the pre-translated application name to the application. Useful if you want to programatically create links between applications. Under CGI mode, pass-along any params set via new() in the instance script. It makes it very easy to setup multiple applications w/o having to add <Location> (mod_perl) or instance scripts (CGI) for each one.	[reply]
Re^2: CGI::Application, inheritance trees, and 'the right way' by geektron (Curate) on Nov 02, 2004 at 17:33 UTC
that, in fact, does look like the cleanest solution. from the perldoc, i guess my `form action` would just have the module name on it? like: `<form name='add' method='post' action='/cgi-bin/index.cgi/EventMana +ger/'>` [download] and the hidden fields for RM would still apply?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: CGI::Application, inheritance trees, and 'the right way' by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Nov 02, 2004 at 18:23 UTC
I'm not quite sure how that works, as I've never used it myself. Try it out with a few toy classes and see what happens. Alternatively, you can ask on the CGI::Application mailing list, which is where I heard about this. Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence. Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.	[reply]
Re^4: CGI::Application, inheritance trees, and 'the right way' by geektron (Curate) on Nov 02, 2004 at 18:46 UTC
actually, adding the `dispatch`ed class to the form method just works, which is nice. i just have to play with some of my direct links, see if i should tack on `?rm=foo`	[reply] [d/l] [select]