[Catalyst] report on trunk version of Plugin::SubRequest

[John Napiorkowski]

Hi,

I've been playing this the trunk version of the
subrequest plugin since I'm looking for a better
solution to my portal-like framework I've created on
this application.  I find the CPAN subrequest doesn't
properly isolate itself and I get a lot of variable
collision.  Right now I'm just doing an LWP request
for each page section.  It works but generates a lot
of web traffic and just seems a bit heavy handed.

I know that there was some call for comments on the
trunk subrequest so I thought people might be
interested.

I find that each subrequest get's dispatched and seems
to be better isolated, however the return seems to
always be undefined.  Here's my example:

package myapp::Controller::regions;


sub base_region :Path
{
  my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
	
  $c->stash->{one} =
$c->sub_request('/regions/region_one')
	 || 'nothing from one';
	 
  $c->stash->{two} =
$c->sub_request('/regions/region_two')
	 || 'nothing from two';
	 
  my $response = sprintf( 
		
    "Region 1: %s, Region 2: %s",
    $c->stash->{one},
    $c->stash->{two},
  );
	
  $c->response->body( $response );
}


sub region_one :Local
{
  my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
  $c->response->body('region one');
}

sub region_two :Local
{
  my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
  $c->response->body('region two');	
}

The result when I point the browser to /regions is:
"Region 1: nothing from two, Region 2: nothing from
two"

I placed some debug code inside the plugin to see what
is going on and it does seem like the body is empty. 
I can see in my debug screen that each subrequest gets
called.  My debug output looks like:

[info] *** Request 1 (0.333/s) [7886] [Fri Sep 29
19:15:57 2006] ***
[debug] "GET" request for "regions" from
"10.176.11.153"
[debug] Path is "regions"
[info] *** Request 1 (0.333/s) [7886] [Fri Sep 29
19:15:57 2006] ***
[debug] "GET" request for "regions/region_one" from
"10.176.11.153"
[debug] Path is "regions/region_one"

[info] *** Request 1 (0.333/s) [7886] [Fri Sep 29
19:15:57 2006] ***
[debug] "GET" request for "regions/region_two" from
"10.176.11.153"
[debug] Path is "regions/region_two"

Now, is this how we want it to work?  I can rewrite
this in the form of a few tests but I'm not sure if
anyone other than me cares :)

Just curious, is there anyone else that is trying to
do portal-like development with Catalyst?  What I mean
by this is that each page is broken into regions which
each have there own controller to handle GET/POST/PUT
etc and each dispatches through to a view.  This way
you make it easier to build pages that are
aggregations of content and also to enable AJAX style
dynamic updates of page sections without reloading the
whole page.

--john

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