REST, CGI::Application::Plugin::Apache and Apache2::Request

talexb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I originally implemented a REST interface to my web application using the mod_rewrite rule and this worked fine for GET operations (list available projects, show project detail) but did not work for POST operations (upload a file to a project). Since I used the CGI::Application framework to build the web app, I thought I'd use CGI::Application::Plugin::Apache::Request to create a request handler as an alternative solution.

This module requires Apache2::Request, a module I'm not familiar with. Among many other things, the documentation says

Apache2::Upload is now a separate module. Applications requiring the upload API must use Apache2::Upload in 2.X. ..

This is a potential problem, because my web application already happily does file uploads using CGI.

Well, I gave the module a shot anyway, and using cpan install Apache2::Request the process died with

build/version_check.pl failed: \
no version_string found in '' for 'apache2'.
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at the end. I'm not really sure what this means. I have Apache 2.2.3 installed:

[Thu Jan 03 13:02:12 2008] [info] Server: Apache/2.2.3, \
Interface: mod_ssl/2.2.3, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.8b
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so I believe I have everything I need .. but it seems my environment isn't right. Thoughts?

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re: REST, CGI::Application::Plugin::Apache and Apache2::Request by friedo (Prior) on Jan 03, 2008 at 20:45 UTC
I don't have any particular advice for Apache2::Request as I haven't used it, but have you considered CGI::Application::Dispatch? It makes REST-like URLs very easy to configure without having to mess around with Apache directly.	[reply]
Re^2: REST, CGI::Application::Plugin::Apache and Apache2::Request by talexb (Chancellor) on Jan 03, 2008 at 20:50 UTC
Hoo boy. This module looks exactly like what I'm looking for, and it's also by Michael Peters. Many thanks. I guess the moral of the story is, next time, look at everything else the author's written. Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]
Re: REST, CGI::Application::Plugin::Apache and Apache2::Request by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jan 03, 2008 at 21:47 UTC
I've never been able to install Apache2::Request via CPAN. It won't make; however, I did manage to get it installed by downloading libapreq2. Then, I used the following for ./configure: `./configure --enable-shared --with-gnu-ld --enable-perl-glue --with-pe +rl=/usr/bin/perl --with-apache2-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-httpd=/usr/sbin/httpd` [download] Then I ran `/sbin/ldconfig /usr/lib`. To double-check, I ran pmpath on Apache2::Request, and it found it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]