Re: handlers [OT]

[Jonathan Vanasco <suppressed>]

On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:45 AM, John ORourke wrote:
> Excellent, I'd never heard of that.  I only found out about  
> Class::DBI yesterday too - next thing you'll be telling me there's  
> a guide that picks out the most useful CPAN modules to stop people  
> reinventing the wheel!

Personally, I disliked the dispatch frameworks out there.  They did  
things I didn't like, didn't do things I needed, and were too hard to  
patch.

So naturally, I made my own wheel -- and it has killer rims.

Its not terribly difficult to roll your own inspired from what you  
like in the stuff out there.

My handler has a few config items like:

my  %URL_Dispatch= (
	'/'=> 'FindMeOn::Page::Core::Index',
);
my 	@URL_RegexDispatch= (
		# user main , by numeric id
		{
			'regex'=> qr/^\/user\/([\w]{10})[\/]?$/,
			'package'=> 'FindMeOn::Page::Core::User::Main',
			'id_fields'=> ['hex_id']
		},
);

Then I just parse the path , clean it up, and map it onto a module  
using a Page/Dispatch module i wrote.

The regex suff is damn inefficient right now.  I'm just looping an  
array. I need to update it to do a hierarchy to be limit my match  
pool- but its still pretty decent and works for me better than the  
other dispatch stuff out there.

FWIW, I'd suggest checking out Rose::DB::Object over Class::DBI - its  
not only much nicer to work with from the outset, but its easy to  
implement over an existing project.