[Dancer-users] a couple of questions re. Plugins

[Puneet Kishor]

bump... anyone, any thoughts?

On Nov 13, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> 1. Does a plugin have to reside under Dancer::Plugin::MyPlugin? Or, can it be situated anywhere, like, for example, under app/lib?
> 
> 2. Is it possible to call a method in the application from within MyPlugin? Here is what I mean --
> 
> In my app.pm, I have a method called 
> 
> 	sub opts {
> 	}
> 
> I typically set a bunch of template options in the above sub routine, and use it like so
> 
> 	get '/' => sub {
> 		my $opts = opts();
> 		template 'index', $opts;
> 	};
> 
> I am creating plugin that automatically generates a web page like so
> 
> 	return engine('template')->apply_layout($content);
> 
> I would like to run `app::opts()`, and pass the $opts to the template from within the plugin. I am at a loss how to do that.
> 
> --
> Puneet Kishor