[dancer-users] how should I set a setting while parsing command line options (GH#393)

[Gideon D'souza]

Note I have put in a PR that implements all command line options by setting
ENV:
https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/pull/471

:D


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Slavik Goltser <slavikg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that using ENV to set options is not a bad idea, since they can be
> retrieved if needed (/proc/PID/environ) and keep the command line down. One
> of the popular methods in java land is to export the classpath as an
> environment variable (otherwise command lines get unbearably long).
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:05 AM, sawyer x <xsawyerx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That really is a tricky point... I'm not exactly sure, to be honest.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Gideon D'souza <gidisrael at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> So I'm working on fixing issue #393:
>>> https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/issues/393
>>>
>>> I'm sorry to have gotten jammed up with such a simple task. I ran into a
>>> small issue which might relate to other things going on.
>>>
>>> (1) I cannot use setting(port => 1234) or setting(environment =>
>>> "stage") inside GetOpt like Dancer1. It fails.
>>> Here is the line that fails:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/gideondsouza/Dancer2/blob/pr/command_line_support/lib/Dancer2/GetOpt.pm#L15
>>>
>>> @mst did point out this is incorrect, I should point to the config
>>> setting on the app instance. A larger problem here is that this doesn't
>>> work either.
>>>
>>> (2) $app->setting(..) or $runner->setting(..) don't work.
>>> See :
>>> https://github.com/gideondsouza/Dancer2/blob/pr/command_line_support/lib/Dancer2.pm#L151
>>>
>>> What also perplexed me is that if I put a breakpoint at a line inside
>>> Dancer2::import it wouldn't stop and just go and run the server.
>>>
>>> So what should I do here?  Setting $ENV{} works. Should I do this? Am I
>>> doing something wrong? Is there anything else I should fix first?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Gideon
>>>
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