[cgiapp] Re: Calling CGI::Application::Plugin::ConfigAuto from cgiapp_init

[Mark Stosberg <suppressed>]

On 2004-12-13, Cees Hek <suppressed> wrote:
>
>> # In my instance script
>> my $app = WebApp->new(PARAMS => { cfg_file => 'config.pl' });

> # the call to cfg_file should not be needed here!
> # $app->cfg_file('config.pl');

That's right. After trying it, I no longer recommend having this method
in the instance script precisely because the config data can't be
accessed in cgiapp_init().

> I would suspect that the 'cfg' method could be changed to look at
> $self->param('cfg_file') if the user hasn't already called cfg_file (I
> haven't looked at the code for the plugin so I don't know for sure).
>
> So you can set things up normally using $self->cfg_file('config.pl'),
> OR you could configure it when you create your application object
> using
>
> my $app = WebApp->new(PARAMS => { cfg_file => 'config.pl' });
>
> But like I said, the plugin author would have to add this
> functionality to CAP::ConfigAuto for this to work.

The plugin author is listening. :) That's a good idea.

    Mark

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