[Dancer-users] Flash Message
Flavio Poletti
polettix at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 18:02:52 CET 2011
Hi,
of course we can try to adapt to it (it seems a bit difficult although
probably not impossible), but I fail to see the point.
IMHO, if you get the chance to show the messages, you should show them all:
showing warnings in one page and errors in the following one would puzzle
the end user, wouldn't it?
Unless there is some use case that point in the opposite direction I'd stick
to the "wipe them all when you get the chance to show them" semantics.
Cheers,
Flavio.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Brian E. Lozier <brian at massassi.com> wrote:
> It looks like a pretty good solution. The only thing I can see would
> be that if you are in a template and check for flash.error but not
> flash.warning, it looks like it will clear both flash.error and
> flash.warning. It seems like it should only clear the one you're
> checking for.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Flavio Poletti <polettix at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I thought a bit about it and I think that the current implementation
> is a
> > bit too limited (this seems also what brian thinks in the bug
> > report http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=65009 - at least
> from
> > what I understand).
> > The problem is that the flash message might have to be displayed in the
> next
> > request, which happens when redirections kick in. In this case, the flash
> > message should be set, kept in the session and removed only when it is
> > actually displayed; this should happen automatically, i.e. without
> playing
> > with the $persistent variable - which is global - or with further
> overhead
> > on the controller side.
> > Following brian's feedback, I tried to re-code the plugin with the
> following
> > criteria:
> > * the "flash" method only adds messages (and handles many of them for
> every
> > category - you might have more than one error in a page). I see no point
> in
> > removing messages while inside the controller;
> > * the message removal logic is shifted in the template via an anonymous
> sub.
> > If the sub is called then the flash cache is cleared, otherwise it
> remains
> > there. This should guarantee that the messages are not removed until they
> > get the chance to be displayed.
> > This is the core of the recoding - not tested but should suffice to give
> you
> > the idea:
> > register flash => sub {
> > my ($key, $value) = @_;
> > my $flash = session($session_hash_key);
> > if (! $flash) { # initialise the container for flash messages
> > $flash = {};
> > session($session_hash_key, $flash);
> > }
> > push @{$flash->{$key}}, $value;
> > return;
> > };
> > before_template sub {
> > my $obj = shift;
> > my $flashes;
> > $obj->{$token_name} = sub {
> > if (! $flashes) { # first call, get messages and clear
> > $flashes = session($session_hash_key) || {};
> > session($session_hash_key, {});
> > }
> > return $flashes;
> > };
> > return;
> > };
> >
> > IMHO there is no need for an "exists", in the template you can do like
> this:
> > <% IF flash.errors %>...<% END %>
> > The important thing to remember is that even checking for the presence of
> > something inside "flash" clears the messages, which is consistent with
> the
> > semantics that "they get cleared as soon as they have a chance to be
> > displayed". The $flashes variable guarantees that they survive at least
> > until the end of the request, i.e. you are able to call "flash" multiple
> > times while handling a request and always get all messages.
> > If you think that this makes sense, I can propose a pull request on
> GitHub
> > or you can make the changes directly.
> > Cheers,
> > Flavio.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:48 PM, damien krotkine <dkrotkine at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I've re-implemented it to be more Rails-like, as sukria said.
> >>
> >> https://github.com/dams/Dancer-Plugin-FlashMessage
> >>
> >> and on CPAN, pending mirrors refresh.
> >>
> >> The funny part of the story ? the effective code is only 30 lines
> >> long. Talking about Perl and Dancer expressiveness...
> >>
> >> dams.
> >>
> >> On 11 January 2011 14:40, Alexis Sukrieh <sukria at sukria.net> wrote:
> >> > Hi list!
> >> >
> >> > Le 11/01/2011 14:29, damien krotkine a écrit :
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> following previous thread, I've done a first implementation of
> >> >> Dancer::Plugin::FlashMessage :
> >> >>
> >> >> https://github.com/dams/Dancer-Plugin-FlashMessage
> >> >
> >> > Great! Thanks a lot for your time dams, the myth is still alived!
> >> > (Dancer's
> >> > community)++
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> Some parts need to be improved, for instance :
> >> >>
> >> >> - it supports only one flash message
> >> >> - the keywords are not short enough.
> >> >>
> >> >> So I think I'll change the implementation so that the template token
> is
> >> >> simply called 'flash', and it'll be a hash, like in Rails. I'll also
> >> >> change the registered method so that it's just flash() instead of
> >> >> get_flash()
> >> >
> >> > I agree. I'd like to behave just like Rails' flash feature. The idea
> is
> >> > pretty straight forward:
> >> >
> >> > "flash" is an accessor to a particular session hash table whose values
> >> > can
> >> > only be accessed once. Nothing more complicated than that.
> >> >
> >> > So to conclude, IMO, flash should be a wrapper like the following:
> >> >
> >> > sub flash {
> >> > my ($key, $value) = @_;
> >> > my $flash = session('_flash');
> >> >
> >> > # write
> >> > if (@_ == 2) {
> >> > $flash->{$key} = $value;
> >> > session('_flash' => $flash);
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > # read (+ delete)
> >> > else {
> >> > my $value = $flash->{$key};
> >> > delete $flash->{$key} if defined $value;
> >> > session('_flash' => $flash);
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > return $value;
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > This is it, I think. This allows for the following code in a Dancer
> app:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > get '/' => sub {
> >> > flash welcome => "This is a welcome message, only shown once";
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > Then, as soon as the key 'welcome' is accesed via flash('welcome'),
> the
> >> > entry will be purged.
> >> >
> >> > This will be very helpful for authentication stuff in before filters,
> >> > error
> >> > messages, notifications, ....
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Kudos to dams!
> >> >
> >> > (BTW I haven't read the code yet)
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Alexis Sukrieh
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