[Catalyst] Catalyst FormBuilder plugin on CPAN

[Nate Wiger]

Matt S Trout wrote:
> Nate Wiger wrote:
>> If you can send me a pointer to writing a controller base class, I'll 
>> certainly check it out. I didn't consider this an option, to be honest. 
>> I was trying to model it after XMLRPC, which is nice and easy to load 
>> with its :XMLRPC attribute. But I'm open to other possibilities.
> 
> "Poke at Catalyst::Base" - each attr causes the _parse_Name_attr method to be 
> invoked during which you can do as you will.
> 
> Catalyst::Plugin::XMLRPC is a complete disaster of a design cockup and 
> considered *strongly* disrecommended. Catalyst::Plugin::Server obsoletes it so 
> far as I'm concerned.

Actually, I was talking about Server::XMLRPC - great module, again 
implemented as a Plugin. It could be argued that it belongs as a 
controller base class too, since it does alter the request cycle and add 
an $c->xmlrpc (as well as even forward requests to different urls).

Just to throw an idea out, the plugin architecture could be formalized 
somewhat. Add a register_plugin() method, for example, that doesn't 
allow more than one module to load into $c->{whatever}. A Plugin module 
writer would use this to register their plugin.

It could do some simple housekeeping and throw an exception like so:

    Attempt to load Cat conflicts with already loaded plugin Dog

Just a thought.

-Nate