On 11/7/05, Peter Speltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is what transpired on #maypole leading to the new and exciting > topic of Maypole Ribbons. Some preliminary and OT things snipped out > for brevity and clarity.
<snip> > So Maypole needs ´Ribbons' as Aaron aptly named them to tie > everything together by feeding the various components the information > they need to function within the application. Does that sound about > right? > I'm thinking this is a useful concept, and we already have them, we just thought they were awkward bits that contradict MVC. The ribbons are the bits that join the M, V and C domains together. Some of them include: - the vars() method in Maypole::View::Base, which injects dynamic data from the model, and static data from the config, into the templates - the proposed instance() method, which gives universal access to the request object, and thence to the config object - setup() [the bits moved to setup_model() in 2.11], which constructs the Maypole model during startup - ditto init(), for setting up the view We've had a fair bit of debate about how MVC is Maypole, and what bits of Maypole represent M, V and C, and I think we've been struggling to shove every little bit of Maypole into one of those categories. But the categories are perhaps more conceptual, and much of the job of Maypole is to provide the ribbons that channel information from one category to another. In fact, there's very little code in Maypole that counts as V - that's all in TT and the templates, and most of the code in Maypole::View::Base and ::TT is about communicating with the View. Similarly for the model, but it's a bit more complex, because in a simple Maypole app, like BeerDB, the only model is the Maypole model. But in a complex app, the Maypole model becomes the ribbon that joins the Controller to the underlying model. An interface to the M. We should just be careful that whenever we want to add something that doesn't sit comfortably in the MVC paradigm, we just label it as a ribbon and don't look deeper. d. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Maypole-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/maypole-devel
