Re: [cgiapp] a question about urls mapping to the project directory layout

[Michael Peters <suppressed>]

Thilo Planz wrote:
> Having said that, if you wanted to "redirect" to a new $webapp object, 
> something like this could work:
>
>     $self->header_type('none');
>     my $app = new AdminWebApp( QUERY => $self->query );
>     $app->run;
>     return '';
>
> But I really think, this (dispatching between functionality) is what run 
> modes are for.
> Is anyone doing this?

This is basically what CGI::Application::Dispatch does. It looks at the 
PATH_INFO, creates the object and then run()'s it. It does provide a 
hook so that you can customize the PATH_INFO to module name translation 
before the dispatch. If you wanted to, I bet that would be an easy place 
to do what punkish is asking for.

I know you didn't want to use C::A::Dispatch just yet, but here's how 
you might go about that for this case...

+ create your own dispatch class using C::A::Dispatch as your base
+ override the get_module_name() method
+ if the path_info translates into Module::Name look to see if they are
   a public/admin, etc (using a cookie, etc)
+ change the module name to be Public::Module::Name or
  Admin::Module::Name, etc


The benefits of doing it like this are that you can still encapsulate 
the functionality for one type of user into a module, but you url's 
would be the same. And you would only need it one place and it would 
work under vanilla cgi or mod_perl.

Just some more ideas.

--
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP


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