Hi all, This group is for everyone who is interested in the further development of Class::CGI. If you're here, I assume you already know about the module. You...
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Apr 27, 2006 6:54 am
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... Thanks for creating Class::CGI. I think it will be very useful to me. So are you asking for people to implement the handlers in your post or to implement...
... Any handlers that folks want to take a stab at would be great. There is some more development which needs to occur to make this truly a robust, general...
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Apr 27, 2006 7:24 pm
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Hi all, I have a design question for "required" parameters. I need to provide support for them since virtually all forms have at least one required field....
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Apr 27, 2006 10:16 pm
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... <<snip>> I would lean towards using inheritance with the base class handling the common case of only one parameter. In my experience most of the CGI ...
... Hi Brendan, That's interesting because the class you volunteered to write, Class::CGI::Business::CreditCard could very well use "virtual" parameters :)...
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Apr 28, 2006 1:40 am
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... I like the first approach better, because it keeps Class::CGI better decoupled from parameter handling. Consider Class::CGI::PostalAddress. This handler...
Thanks for the feedback Aristotle. ... <snip> ... After thinking about this and reading what else you wrote, I'm swayed by your arguments. Since this software...
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Apr 28, 2006 5:36 pm
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... <snip> ... So far no one has commented on this (though I could just be impatient). I'd love to get another version out today, but I'd rather wait until I ...
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Apr 29, 2006 2:21 pm
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On 4/29/06, publiustemp-classcgi@... <publiustemp-classcgi@...> ... I haven't done any work with Class::CGI yet, but it looks like a useful, ...
... … or your commenters lazy. :-) It’s a bit of the old issue: fewer people will read code than prose, because code hides intent between the lines. I’ll...
Hi all, I'll be out of town for a couple of days and won't be checking my email, but in the meantime, here are a couple of ideas to chew over. Eventually...
Ovid
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Apr 30, 2006 4:48 pm
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... ^ stick a `scalar` in there, else you'll have a nasty surprise; or better, use another nested anonymous array ... It's a bit confusing, IMO; you'll have to...
Hi Ovid, ... why does Class::CGI have to inherit from CGI::Simple? And if it does, is there maybe a way to abstain from parsing POST data and instead letting...
Now that my work permit for the UK has been approved, much of my week has been spending working on my "entry clearance" paperwork and frantically trying to get...
Ovid
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May 7, 2006 9:58 pm
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Hi all, With the release of the latest Class::CGI, I've updated Class::CGI::DateTime and added Class::CGI::Email::Valid. The latter module uses Email::Valid...
Ovid
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May 7, 2006 10:38 pm
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... I've started to write a justification for this decision, but it sounded like I was getting defensive, so I stepped back a bit and thought about it. I...
Ovid
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May 8, 2006 12:07 am
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... In a similar vein, is there any reason this is web form specific? There are many other instances in perl programming where you get back a hash of values...
... While that sounds interesting, I'm not sure of what such an interface would look like. It's certainly outside the scope of what I have been looking for,...
Ovid
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May 11, 2006 1:57 am
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Hi all, As previously mentioned, I considered delegation instead of inheritance. This makes it trivial to support CGI::Simple, CGI, Isotope (not yet...
Ovid
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May 11, 2006 2:00 am
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... If there’s a way to pass in a CGI-like object as well as a way to get the object back out, then that’s enough. You either just call methods on whatever...
... I've not yet tested it with mod_perl, but I don't see why not. Still, it really needs to change from an inheritance model to a dispatch model to make it...
Ovid
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Jan 31, 2007 7:18 am
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I was wondering if it'll try to load CGI.pm module even under mod-perl? I should probably just try using it and examine the modules loaded? There is no need to...
