Re: [cgiapp] preview: ValidateRM as a plug-in

[Stephen Howard <suppressed>]

For those have not had a change to browse the source of 
Application::Pipeline, this is very close to how I am handling it there. 
 My terminology is slightly different, and generally trusts plugins to 
import sane accessors/methods:

$app->loadPlugin( 'Service', @params );
$app->loadPlugins( qw( List Of Services Without Params ) );

$app->unloadPlugins( 'Foo' );

then the plugin authors have to write a load() methodand optionally an 
unload() method.  The load method uses A::P's addServices() method to 
register functions or objects to the application that called it. More 
documentation here:

http://search.cpan.org/~howars/Application-Pipeline-0.1.1/lib/Application/Pipeline.pm#Writing_Plugins


Michael Peters wrote:

> Stephen Howard wrote:
>
> > Although it is not really compatible with this approach, one of the 
> > nice things about many plugin systems is that while they all reside in 
> > a Foo::Plugin:: namespace, the mechanisms for importing the plugin 
> > usually lets you drop the Foo::Plugin:: prefix when referring to it 
> > and it will still do the Right Thing.  Not really going anywhere with 
> > this, as it would require a different approach, but was looking at the 
> > character count of
> >
> >  > use CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM (qw/check_rm/);
> >
> > versus something like
> >
> > $app->load_plugin('ValidateRM', qw(check_rm));
>
>
> That's an interesting idea... I wonder what others would think of 
> allowing both? If we have a standard way of importing, naming, etc... 
> for the plugins then this might act as sort of a pseudo way of enforcing 
> it. It should be trivial to add that sub to C::A and the plugin's author 
> would need to make sure that their plugin worked that way.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> --
> Michael Peters
> Developer
> Plus Three, LP
>
>
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