[dancer-users] A way to separate code into smaller parts/files

[Andrew Solomon]

Hi David

Check this out:

http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/9

I suspect it doesn't directly address your question since it's Dancer2
rather than Dancer, but seeing as you're using Plack your already half way
there:)

cheers

Andrew



On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote:

> On Apr 22, 2015, at 6:42 PM, David H <untg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What is the best way to separate these code bases into separate files?
>
> Dancer makes this really easy.  The ‘dancer’ generator already created a
> “lib” directory for you and added it to the module path.  By default, that
> lib directory only holds myapp.pm, but there’s nothing preventing you
> from adding more files to that tree.
>
> For my app (which has about 5x the amount of Perl code you’re talking
> about) I chose to keep lib/myapp.pm as the “Dancer core” module,
> containing little more than the route handlers.
>
> Those route handlers are mostly one-liners that call off into one of the
> other modules which live in lib/myapp/*.pm.
>
> At the top of lib/myapp.pm, you see a bunch of stuff like:
>
>     use myapp::SomeComponent;
>     use myapp::AnotherComponent;
>     use etc…
>
> Those modules then export classes, functions, and globals in the normal
> way, for use by the Dancer core module.
>
> Sometimes I write these modules to require fully-qualified names rather
> than export function to global level.  A route handler thus might look like
> this:
>
>     prefix '/api' => sub {
>         prefix '/sc' => {
>             get ‘foo’ => sub {
>                 return myapp::SomeComponent::GetFoo(param ‘bar’);
>             };
>         };
>     };
>
> If you didn’t know you could nest things with “prefix” this way, aren’t
> you glad you know now? :)
>
> As you can see, I’m mirroring my Perl module component hierarchy with my
> URL hierarchy: /api/sc/* is handled by myapp::SomeComponent, etc.
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