[Catalyst-dev] RFC: Catalyst::View::Email and Catalyst::View::TemplateEmail

[Tom Lanyon]

J. Shirley wrote:
> Good point and idea, mail/$mime-type/$template.tt -- I'll also put in
> an option to include everything by doing checks if the template exist.

I like that. The $template.$mimetype.tt suggestion from Aristotle is 
good but is it creating extra clutter in itself? I think you should have 
a single convention and stick to it and it alone.

> A mailing error, as best as we can detect, would be thrown in the 
> View.  I'm debating whether to go with an exception that needs to be 
> caught, or some other mechanism.  Thoughts on this welcome.  I'm 
> leaning more towards just throwing an exception.

I think there needs to be some way to capture these exceptions in the 
next View which is forwarded to. For example, a basic controller used to 
send mail to a user would forward to View::Email then to 
View::{TT,Mason,etc} to display a message of success or failure. I'm not 
sure on the best way to do this, but even just setting a 
$c->stash->{mail_err} which can be checked by subsequent views would 
suffice in my mind.

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Tom Lanyon