[Catalyst] Data validation : a proposal (request for comments)

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Tue Oct 17 18:33:38 CEST 2006


Dami Laurent (PJ) wrote:
> Hi Catalysters,
> 
> In our organization we are building a Catalyst app where form items have
> nested names (i.e. <input name="foo.2.bar.5">) and the whole form data
> is then expanded into a Perl tree through CGI::Expand. Next I need to
> validate the shape of that tree (type of nodes, absence/presence/size of
> subtrees, etc.). As far as I know, existing validation modules like
> Data::FormValidator or Html::Widget::Constraint do not go that far. So
> attached is a new proposal, still experimental, called Data::Domain (not
> yet on CPAN). I'm interested to hear about any
> comments/suggestions/collaboration proposals, or just to know if other
> people have similar needs. 

Looks a lot like

http://search.cpan.org/~phaylon/Declare-Constraints-Simple-0.03/

to me.

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