Webservice in Perl

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Re: Webservice in Perl by perl_lover (Chaplain) on Oct 05, 2011 at 08:53 UTC
You can try O'Reily's Programming Web Services with Perl use Perl; Perl4Everything	[reply]
Re^2: Webservice in Perl by Jenda (Abbot) on Oct 05, 2011 at 22:40 UTC
Or maybe not. The book is 9 years old. Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]
Re: Webservice in Perl by chrestomanci (Priest) on Oct 05, 2011 at 08:23 UTC
Book recommendations would depend on what technology you intend to use. For example many people use Catalyst for websites, in which case there are a number of Catalyst books to chose from. As for who uses perl for websites, a lot of companies do. For example if you take a look at jobs.perl.org you will see that booking.com have this open vacancy for lots of perl devs, so it would be reasonable to assume that they use perl for their website. There are plenty of others, and I have been approached by around a dozen of them, but they are more local in nature.	[reply]
Re: Webservice in Perl by duyet (Friar) on Oct 05, 2011 at 09:10 UTC
Philips uses Perl for support of consumer products website (this part is JSP), then drill down to a product eg. 21:9 TV	[reply]
Re: Webservice in Perl by afresh1 (Hermit) on Oct 06, 2011 at 05:01 UTC
A newer option that I enjoy using is Mojolicious. I don't believe there are any books on it yet, but a fair amount of online documentation. A simple example web service from the Mojolicious web site looks like this: `# RESTful web service with JSON and text representation get '/list/:offset' => sub { my $self = shift; my $numbers = [0 .. $self->param('offset')]; $self->respond_to( json => {json => $numbers}, txt => {text => join(',', @$numbers)} ); };` [download] l8rZ, -- andrew	[reply] [d/l]