March 2011 - dancer-users - lists.preshweb.co.uk

Controlling Session expire time
by Brian E. Lozier 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

When I use Dancer::Session::YAML to create a session, the session cookie is set to expire when the browser closes. Is there a way for me to set an expire time for the session cookie? I looked in Dancer::Session, Dancer::Session::YAML, Dancer::Cookbook, and Dancer::Session::Abstract but didn't see anything (maybe I missed it). Thanks, Brian

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[RFC] Change in prefix / before functionality
by Simon Wistow 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

I'd really like to be able to do something like this --- >8 --- package MyApp; use MyApp::Secret; prefix 'undef'; before sub { # do something }; package MyApp::Secret; prefix '/secret'; before sub { return unless auth && auth->is_admin; } 1; --- >8 --- Rather than having to have the before sub in the main MyApp do all my auth work (or conditionally load resources or whatever). However at the moment *all* before subs get run no matter what the route is - if I put some warns in the before subs for MyApp and MyApp::Secret I get [78776] core @0.000241> request: GET / from 127.0.0.1 in /Library/Perl/5.10.0/Dancer/Handler.pm l. 51 In the before for MyApp::Secret at lib/MyApp/Secret.pm line 8, <DATA> line 16. In the before for MyApp at lib/MyApp.pm line 9, <DATA> line 16. [78776] core @0.000302> request: GET /secret from 127.0.0.1 in /Library/Perl/5.10.0/Dancer/Handler.pm l. 51 In the before for MyApp::Secret at lib/MyApp/Secret.pm line 8, <DATA> line 16. In the before for MyApp at lib/MyApp.pm line 9, <DATA> line 16. Perhaps a new method called before_prefix (and before_template_prefix) or something to maintain backwards compatibility?

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GSoC
by franck 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hi everybody This year, Dancer could be part of the GSoC via the Perl Foundation. If you are a student interested in Dancer and looking for a project to work on this summer, please contact us :) There is two core dev who are OK in mentoring (sawyer and myself), so feel free to contact us. If you are interested: - we have drafted some ideas on the EPO wiki [1] (search for Dancer), but feel free to offer other ideas - you can also register yourself [2] and submit a proposition - join #dancer (on irc.perl.org) to talk to us. If you need some help to redact a proposition we will be happy to help. There is also #soc-help (still on irc.perl.org) where you can ask for more informations if needed. Thanks! [1] http://epo.means.no/gsoc2011/ideas [2] http://www.google-melange.com/ -- franck cuny http://lumberjaph.net - http://github.com/franckcuny

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bug with Dancer::Error
by Nick Knutov 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

Hello all, according to http://search.cpan.org/~xsawyerx/Dancer/lib/Dancer/Error.pm I should do Dancer::Response->set($error->render) at the end. But the 'set' method is not defined in Dancer::Response or Dancer:Object. The sample code does not work. -- Best Regards, Nick Knutov http://knutov.com ICQ: 272873706 Voice: +7-904-84-23-130

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complex form building
by WK 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Terr! At the beginning i'd like to thank you all of Dancer developers. I really like to Dance (despite i know too few steps so far) and as readed over whole list archive, it is so good to see which huge improvement is done during the last year. I have an old app, CGI.pm based, fully handy-crafted, designed 1998 as my first Big solution and during all these years i hacked it as far as it needed. I'd like to write it up from scratch again, using Dancer. I looking Mates for this dance and i'd like to find matching ones. One problem is *form building*. I looked sawyer x Spark-presentation (http://sck.to/TW) and if i got it right, nested forms may be right step for me. Still, i'd like to read opinions of yours, from your knowledge and experience. I asked help also in StackOverflow (http://sck.to/O5) and i paste same question here. Maybe my wording is too foggy, so, please ask, i'll try to explain. ---- I'm experimenting with Dancer some time, and looking for the right blocks to build my application. Frameworks tend to have flat example applications, dealing with one table at time. So I have no good idea which tools should be used to build a little bit more complex CRUD forms. Let's say I create a Booklovers app. It should have a form to add/edit books with authors. To cover this I need 3 tables in our database: books, authors and books_to_authors. Which is best way to build a form to add a book with authors? Note: * It is not known how many authors a book may have, we need dynamic adding of rows. * The authors table may have tens of thousands of records, so a select form element is not suitable. * An author may be missing from our database, we need to add them dynamically, too. All these dynamic parts needs some AJAX. Is there a good solution to integrate it with form creating tools in Perl? I looked at CGI::FormBuilder and am still looking, but I did not find something that could build forms for 3 joined tables (many-to-many) as described. The dynamic client-side part also still needs to be covered. Are there some best practices for such a pretty simple case? ---- TIA Btw, one of most important things of choosing Dancer was Unicode support. I am so tired of tools, frameworks, orm-s, libraries, anything which don't support utf-8 in a simple, clean way :) It is really important to support utf-8 on 2011! -- Wbr Kõike hääd, Gunnar

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Fwd: Structuring Dancer Application
by Naveed Massjouni 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Naveed Massjouni <naveedm9(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:47 AM Subject: Re: [Dancer-users] Structuring Dancer Application To: Ricardo Paz <ricardo.paz.fernandez(a)gmail.com> You are welcome. But you should reply to the list so that people who are trying to help you know that you have solved your problem. -Naveed On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Ricardo Paz <ricardo.paz.fernandez(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Naveed, > > Yes, that's exacly what i was looking for. > > Thank you > > 2011/3/26 Naveed Massjouni <naveedm9(a)gmail.com> >> >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Forgoselo Fontardion >> <fontardion(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Thank you for answering my question. >> > >> > Maybe I didn't explain the question correctly.I want to be able to split >> > the >> > logic in diferent modules. In your example: >> > "/" calls Web::Root, how do you call Web::Root from web.pm? >> > "/forums" calls Web::Forum, how do you call Web::Forum from web.pm? >> >> === web.pm === >> use Dancer ':syntax'; >> use Web::Root; >> get '/' => sub { Web::Root::foo() }; >> get '/forums' => sub { Web::Forum::bar() }; >> >> Is that what you want? >> -Naveed >> >> > >> > >> > Best regards, >> > Fontardion >> > >> > 2011/3/25 sawyer x <xsawyerx(a)gmail.com> >> >> >> >> Hey guys, >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Brian E. Lozier <brian(a)massassi.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> http://search.cpan.org/~sukria/Dancer-1.2005/lib/Dancer/Introduction.pod#PR… >> >> >> >> Better use a more up-to-date version: >> >> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Dancer::Introduction >> >> >> >> S. >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Dancer-users mailing list >> > Dancer-users(a)perldancer.org >> > http://www.backup-manager.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/dancer-users >> > >> > > >

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How to select a specific environment when I do "make test"
by Geistteufel 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hi, I want to switch to "testing" environment when I call "make test". In fact generally I need 3 environments. Production, Development and Testing. Production, should be use directly from plackup or apache. Development, during dev process, And Testing, when I call "make test", it create a db test, load everything like fixture, and don't mess up development environment. Any idea ? I can do DANCER_ENVIRONMENT=test perl Makefile.PL DANCER_ENVIRONMENT=test make test But is they a better way to do this ?

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Dancer::Config::load called twice?
by Alex C 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

I was looking through the source files just out of curiosity to see how things work and I have a couple of queries. Dancer::Config->load is called twice, first when Dancer::import is called, then again in Dancer::_start. Why is it necessary to call it the second time? And what is the purpose of these lines in Dancer::Config::load? I think that for a key to be in %$SETTINGS, it's hook must already have been called (via _trigger_hooks). So forcing the hooks to be called again like this seems unnecessary to me. 171 foreach my $key (grep { $setters->{$_} } keys %$SETTINGS) { 172 $setters->{$key}->($key, $SETTINGS->{$key}); 173 } Thanks for info and I'm Sorry for poking around in the internals :) Alex

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Structuring Dancer Application
by Forgoselo Fontardion 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Hi to all, I've programmed ten years ago a CGI web page for our company. We've decided to upgrade it, to a moderm framework. I'm starting to develop it with Dancer. Makes easy a lot of things that were dificult. I'm concerned on how we can structure the application. I'd like to divide my application in several files, but I haven't found in the documentation the mode to call diferent packages or modules depending on the route. Best regards, R. Fontardion

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My Dancer App - SCK - fully redesign
by Geistteufel 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Hi, So I have add a huge amount of thing on SCK (my shorten url system). People there who use my dancer apps, could take a look of changes there : http://sck.to/mV And of course discover the beast there : http://sck.to I will discuss of all of these to the Paris Meeting the 7 april, for whose are interested. Have fun ! celogeek SCK - Shorten URL System completly redesign ! | QA from Celogeek - http://sck.to/mV 27/03/11 01:19

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