Re: [cgiapp] CA::Dispatch

[Michael Peters <suppressed>]

Robert Hicks wrote:
> I am just coming up to speed on this one.
> 
> I am wondering if I am reading the pod right.
> 
> Am I replacing "use base 'CGI::Application'" with "use base
> 'CGI::Application::Dispatch'"?

No. Dispatch is not a base class for a C::A application. Dispatch sits outside
of your applications. You shouldn't need to change your application modules. You
can think of Dispatch as a way to gather different app modules under the same roof.

If you are planning on using Dispatch under mod_perl then you'd most likely
create a subclass of dispatch which contains a dispatch_args() method and then
put something like this in your httpd.conf file:

  PerlHandler Abrams::Dispatch

If you're using it under normal CGI (or even FCGI) then you'd probably just
create a single index.pl script that uses Abrams::Dispatch like so:

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use strict;
    use Abrams::Dispatch;
    Abrams::Dispatch->dispatch();

> Then if my module name is "package Abrams" I would build a dispatch
> table for my runmodes:
> 
> sub dispatch_ars {
>     return {
>         prefix => 'Abrams',
>         table => [
>             '' => { app => 'Welcome', rm => 'start' },
>             '' => { app => 'Contacts', rm => 'contacts' },
>             ':app/:rm' => {},
>         ],
>     };
> }

That looks like a good dispatch table to me.

> Now I am using CAP::AutoRunmode currently and I have:

I've never used AutoRunmode with Dispatch so I'm not sure how well they play
together. Anyone else use them together?

-- 
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP


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