Re: [cgiapp] CGI::Application::Light 0.1

[Shaun Guth <suppressed>]

On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 01:18, Shaun Guth wrote:
> I completely agree that most features will be re-enabled (such as
> passing parameters via the instance script, and changing the default
> name of the runmode parameter). 

I've spent the time to make CGI::Application::Light mostly
feature-complete to CGI::Application (except for the template coupling
and some debugging routines).  It now supports naming the run_mode
parameter, instance script parameter passing, response headers,
redirection, setting cookies, etc.

Now the big differences are a different set of method names (clearer
imho), some things work differently (like redirects, cookies, headers),
a postrun() that's called before output is generated but after your
run-mode is executed, and the decoupling of HTML::Template.

The docs at http://perl.l8nite.net/modules/CGI/Application/ have all
been updated.  Adding all these features added 33 lines of code to the
module.  It still outperforms CGI::Application, but only by about
1/100th of a second (this was a very simple test though).  See
http://perl.l8nite.net/modules/CGI/Application/benchmarks.html for the
numbers.

My previous argument for speed is squashed though, I'm no longer
offering that advantage.  I think that the main advantages this module
has to offer now are an improved calling syntax and the ability to be
subclassed for various Templating engines without having "extra" code
carried around.

Maybe the improved API could be the start of some ideas for what we can
include in CGI::Application 4.0 ? 

Shaun

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