Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-24 Thread Sir Robert Burbridge
On 11/23/2010 07:54 PM, Bill Moseley wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Sir Robert Burbridge rburb...@cisco.com mailto:rburb...@cisco.com wrote: By the way, I forgot to mention one piece of practical advice when determining what should be in your controller vs. model:

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-23 Thread Martin Bendix
- Original Message From: Eden Cardim edencar...@gmail.com To: The elegant MVC web framework catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Sent: Tue, 23 November, 2010 0:59:18 Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure Martin == Martin Bendix martinben...@yahoo.co.uk

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-23 Thread Sir Robert Burbridge
From: Sir Robert Burbridgerburb...@cisco.com To: The elegant MVC web frameworkcatalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 17:20:16 Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure I use DBIx::Class with multiple interfaces in the same app

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-23 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Sir Robert Burbridge rburb...@cisco.comwrote: By the way, I forgot to mention one piece of practical advice when determining what should be in your controller vs. model: *Write your controller first.* Don't you mean second? After writing the tests? ;) --

[Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-22 Thread Martin Bendix
Hi, As a Perl and Catalyst novice, I have recently completed the online Catalyst tutorial, and read the Definitive Guide to Catalyst. However, I have a few questions about the basic structure of a thin controller, fat model application. I'd like to take my learning to the next stage by

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-22 Thread woosley. xu.
Personally, as a novice too ^^, I like to keep the Model code clean enough, not to include too much functions like parameters check, which we can just create a controller action to accomplish. I got similar questions though: Some common functions, like date manipulation/formate, what is the

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-22 Thread Ben van Staveren
Personally (and this does mean personally), I'd do it as follows: Your actual logic code (e.g. the whole deal of storing and retrieving things from the database) should be in a separate set of modules. Call those the 'backend' stuff. The main module here should be able to connect to the

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Edwards
Martin Bendix wrote: As a Perl and Catalyst novice, I have recently completed the online Catalyst tutorial, and read the Definitive Guide to Catalyst. However, I have a few questions about the basic structure of a thin controller, fat model application. I'd like to take my learning to

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-22 Thread Martin Bendix
- Original Message From: Ben van Staveren benvanstave...@gmail.com To: The elegant MVC web framework catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 15:13:00 Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure Personally (and this does mean personally

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-22 Thread Martin Bendix
Have a look at this article http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2007/14 which covers using Catalyst models externally. The code that goes with it is well out of date but should give you the general idea using an external DBIC model class. Access to the model from a batch script:

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-22 Thread Sir Robert Burbridge
On 11/22/2010 09:17 AM, Martin Bendix wrote: Hi, As a Perl and Catalyst novice, I have recently completed the online Catalyst tutorial, and read the Definitive Guide to Catalyst. However, I have a few questions about the basic structure of a thin controller, fat model application. I'd like to

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-22 Thread Eden Cardim
Martin == Martin Bendix martinben...@yahoo.co.uk writes: Martin My model should be well separated from the controller. Martin Most, if not all of the application functionality should be Martin exposed via the model, so that the Catalyst controller only Martin needs to make simple

Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

2010-11-22 Thread Martin Bendix
From: Sir Robert Burbridge rburb...@cisco.com To: The elegant MVC web framework catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 17:20:16 Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure I use DBIx::Class with multiple interfaces in the same app