[cgiapp] ::TT ::AnyTemplate and ::TemplateRunner template file name discovery

[Mark Stosberg <suppressed>]

I swear I haven't had an excessive amount of caffiene latey. I think I'm
slightly under-worked at the moment, which has given my idle mind time
to wander...

::Plugin::TT and ::Plugin::AnyTemplate and ::Plugin::TemplateRunner all
offer to guess the file name of the template for you. Ruby on Rails and
other Hot New MVC frameworks do this, too.

So maybe there's something to it. 

But all three of the CGI::App plugins that do this differently. Here's a
summery of the strategies used, with commentary:

 AnyTemplate will just use the run mode, so:
     form_display.html

  This doesn't scale on its own. If I have two sub-projects that use
  forms, I have a collision. A workaround could be to set the
  tmpl_path() for sub-projects that use the same run mode name.

  -----------------------------------------------

 TT will use the current package name, so:
     My/App/form_display.html

  This might be too verbose. It would be nice to trim off the 'My' 
  directory level, since absolutely everything might be under My/App.

  It is prone to collisions if two instance scripts use the same module,
  but want to have different templates. Again, that can be addressed 
  with tmpl_path(), (That's what tmpl_path is for). 

  -----------------------------------------------

 TemplateRunner will use the URL, so: myapp.cgi/really/rocks.html
 Becomes:
     really/rocks.html

 With this design, you can manage the verbosity of the directory
 structure and your collisions by how you structure your URLs.
 But the strength could also be a weakness if minor URL tampering
 causes the template not be found. 

  -----------------------------------------------

Which one do you prefer? Myself, I can't decide yet. 

    Mark

 

    
    







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