[Catalyst] Soaping up Catalyst

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 08:35:17PM -0400, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 08:18:05PM -0400, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> >
> >>Christopher Heschong wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Aug 18, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> >>>
> >>>...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>True. XMLRCP aint that hot either when you're into serializing  objects.
> >>>>All in all, RESTful would be the easiest in Catalyst. It's already  
> >>>>most of the way there. You woul djust need a custom view to  serialize 
> >>>>objects into XML.
> >>>
> >>>Something like sri's Catalyst::View::REST::XML?
> >>>
> >>>http://search.cpan.org/~sri/Catalyst-View-REST-XML-0.01/
> >>>
> >>
> >>NO clue, since I don't see any output examples of what it does with 
> >>objects/instances of modules and their subs/data. :-)
> >
> >
> >It says it uses XML::Simple, so presumably "whatever XML::Simple does". A
> >quick grep of the source shows it uses UNIVERSAL::isa and just treats the
> >object as a normal whatever-the-ref-is.
> >
> 
> Actually, in my case, the best way would be to walk the 
> CDBI->columns(All) and CDBI->table and any relationships as well....

Maybe

http://search.cpan.org/~cwest/Class-DBI-AsXML-1.02/lib/Class/DBI/AsXML.pm

would be handy then?

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