Re: RFC: Apache::Request::Forms (or something similar)

[brian moseley]

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:

> I think the name CGI::Form is appropriate, since the
> forms are part of the CGI protocol, not anything
> mod_perl or Apache sepecific. CGI::Form seems to be an
> abandoned module, so I'm sure you can get permission to
> adopt it and extend it.

actually forms are specified in HTML, not CGI.

peter: i question why you want to subclass Apache::Request,
rather than provide a helper class that maybe maintains a
reference to an Apache::Request object, or some other weaker
type of relationship.

consider writing your forms library to depend on an
interface, not a specific class, so that users can provide
either a CGI object or an Apache::Request object. perhaps
the only interface you need is $obj->param?