[Catalyst-dev] Session in a Model (Was: RE: [Catalyst] Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::CHI)

[Matt Pitts]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomas Doran [mailto:bobtfish at bobtfish.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:07 AM
> To: The elegant MVC web framework
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::CHI
> 
> 
> On 10 Feb 2009, at 02:05, Ashley wrote:
> 
> > Actually, replying to myself already; and top posting to boot.
> 
> Tut tut, if you weren't offering to write code, I'd have to call the
> mail police ;_)
> 
> > Alternatively: would it be a good idea to make the ::Store
> > automatically discover the cache if it's there already? I might try
> > a patch for that but I doubt it's as easy as a new store. I'd like
> > it better though.
> 
> I started this mail with "I think making Session::Store::Delegate be
> able to delegate into a cache provided by Catalyst::Plugin::Cache
> would be cool."
> 
> Having thought about this, it is utter bollocks.
> 
> Catalyst::Plugin::Cache should _itself_ delegate into models, as
> again we have an interface which is basically about adding some
> semantic features (caching instead of session storage) to a model,
> and it should be possible to reuse the _same_ model (for example
> memache) for:
> 
> 1) Caching
> 2) Session storage
> 3) Direct use in user code (e.g. memache counters).
> 
> I don't think you'd often / sanely want to do all three of these in
> the same model, but having the uniform configuration and flexibility
> to be able to do all of these via the model abstraction seems like
> the way to go for me.
> 
> Cheers
> t0m
> 

I hope to help realize your dreams of pure model-based storage with
Moosified P::Session. I have some more ideas about the design that I
need to document and send out in the coming weeks.

I'll try to get on #catalyst-dev for that commit bit sometime soon.

v/r
-matt pitts