Hi, I'm making a bot. I'm trying to integrate it into a Dancer2 app, in order to make a REST API for it, and later be able to interact with it from the browser.

It logs in to an external webservice, like this:

$bot->login($username, $password);
This stores some credentilals in the bot, which uses them for other requests.
And then it does some other stuff:

$->do_stuff;

The bot exists and can make these very basic operations from a script.

To create the REST API with Dancer2, I made something in those lines:

my $bot = MyBot->new;

    post '/login.json' => sub {
        my ($username, $password) = (params->{username}, params->{password});

        $bot->login($username, $password);    # Store credentials in the bot
    };

This works perfectly.

And then

post '/do_stuff.json' => sub {

$bot->do_stuff;
}

This doesn't work: when I call '/login.json', followed by '/do_stuff.json', the second request fails because the credentials are not present: it seems to not be interacting with the same $bot object than the login request.

It works if add

$bot->login( ... )

at the beginning of the '/do_stuff.json' subroutine, but I don't want to login at each new request.

What is a clean solution for this use case?

* 30 minutes later *
I have found Dancer2::Plugin::Adapter and the "singleton" scope, which seems to be what I need. But it won't install. I will send a RT ticket.

Any idea for an alternative solution?