RE: [cgiapp] load_tmpl() question.

["Kleindenst, Fred" <suppressed>]

My two cents on load_tmpl:

In my work I found that its behavior was not to my taste/needs so ended up overriding it anyway.  From the responses, it seems that others have too.  Therefore, I concur with William McKee when we says:

  load_tmpl should be an abstract method that
  must be overridden in the subclassed module 
  (just like setup) 

--Fred

[ Why did I override load_tmpl?  A: I didn't want my app to die when a template was not found, I wanted a more graceful failure mode (at least from the user's point of view) ]

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-----Original Message-----
From: William McKee [mailto:suppressed
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:54 AM
To: Emanuele Zeppieri
Cc: suppressed
Subject: Re: [cgiapp] load_tmpl() question.


On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:04:54PM +0200, Emanuele Zeppieri wrote:
> But then your considerations should apply also to the *existing*
> load_tmpl() method, since it is a method conceived exactly as an
> "interface to different contructors/methods of other commonly used
> modules", as you said.

I don't think you'll get any argument about this issue from folks who
don't use HTML::Template for their template engine. It's legacy code
that constantly comes into discussions about how to integrate other
template engines with C::A.

My current opinion is that load_tmpl should be an abstract method that
must be overridden in the subclassed module (just like setup). Plugin
libraries could then be provided to handle the load_tmpl method or you
can roll your own solution.


Cheers,
William

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