Re: [cgiapp] ANNOUNCE: CGI::Application::Plugin::DevPopup 0.01

[Rhesa Rozendaal <suppressed>]

Michael Graham wrote:
> Rhesa,
>
> This is too cool!  I can think of all sorts of uses for this.  For
> instance, it would be very useful to have a simple
> logger/dumper/debugger plugin that lets you dump the app state at
> various points in the app's life cycle.

I'm imagining a LogDispatch plugin that would collect those, and hand 
them over to DevPopup at the right time. This would be a great aid in 
development. I usually have a bunch of "tail -f"'s running, but this 
would be much easier to inspect!

> One of the problems that I often have is that the $self object is so big
> that it's pretty pointless to dump it to the error log.  But a
> browseable version of the $self object using the DHTML-based folding
> tricks that you use for reports would be very useful.

Absolutely

> Regarding the timings plugin I have a couple of suggestions:
>
>  * the name of the current template is available to the load_tmpl hook -
>    it would be nice if this were displayed in the report (useful when
>    there are a a lot of templates filled in a single request)

I agree, and I actually thought of it, only after I had uploaded this 
dist. It will help a lot though.

>  * the Timing module could register its own cgiapp hook - something like
>    'devpopup_timings'.  Then the user could log the timing of critical
>    points in the app by calling (e.g.):
>
>        $self->call_hook('devpopup_timings', 'Before database call');
>        do_some_expensive_db_stuff();
>        $self->call_hook('devpopup_timings', 'After database call');

Excellent suggestion! I was already deploring the lack of an 
after_prerun and such; the current list isn't exactly detailed. An extra 
hook will be wonderful indeed! And that way I don't even have to export 
anything, which is even better.

This will definitely be in 0.02 :)

> Great work!

Thanks for the great reception!

Rhesa

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Web Archive:  http://www.mail-archive.com/suppressed/
             http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2
To unsubscribe, e-mail: suppressed
For additional commands, e-mail: suppressed