> On 6/17/07, Jonathan Swartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * Access to the wealth of plugins, e.g. sessions, auth/authz > > Can you comment on which ones you found useful, and didn't find easily > with Mason by itself? > >> * A rich, fairly sane webapp API which is agnostic about mod_perl vs >> FastCGI > > Same question: what are you finding useful here that wasn't already > in Mason?
Well, grepping through my source code, here's what I'm using so far: $c->config - the availability of a global config, along with the automatic reading of global and local config files. $c->path_to - path construction with knowledge of the application root directory $c->url_for - URL construction with knowledge of current URL $c->session, $c->flash $c->response->redirect, $c->response->cookies Yes, some of these are available in Mason already, but the Catalyst folks have made them work seamlessly between mod_perl, fastcgi, and standalone mode. So I can run a page request through the debugger or profiler or in unit tests, and it "just works", in a way that Apache:DB and Apache::DProf never quite did. I haven't been using Catalyst for long, and haven't had a chance to look through all the available plugins. I do get the feeling that many of them are rather thin wrappers around exiting CPAN modules, e.g. Catalyst::Plugin::DateTime and Catalyst::Plugin::Browser, and I'd prefer to roll these things on my own and retain control over them. So "wealth of plugins" might have been overstated. :) Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
