[Catalyst] CGI::State style Plugin?

[Jim Spath]

Ash Berlin wrote:
> Jim Spath wrote:
>> I was considering using the following module in my Catalyst app.
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~dkubb/CGI-State-0.02/State.pm
>>
>> Until I saw that it does a "use CGI;", the only purpose of which is 
>> for the creation of a CGI object if you don't pass one in.
>>
>> So I went ahead and wrote a plugin for Catalyst that provides the same 
>> functionality using $c->request.  This was partially because I want 
>> the functionality that CGI::State provides and partially to learn a 
>> little more about Catalyst.
>>
>> I had a few questions about it:
>>
>> - Should I call it Catalyst::Plugin::CGI::State or something else?  I 
>> was thinking of something like Catalyst::Plugin::StructureParams, but 
>> I wasn't sure since it's based so heavily off CGI::State.  On the 
>> other hand, it doesn't use CGI or CGI::State anymore.
>>
>> - It would most likely provide two methods
>>     my $structure = $c->params_to_structure;
>>     $c->structure_to_params($structure)
>>   Do these names make sense?  Are they acceptable?
>>
>> - Does anyone think this plugin is worth releasing publicly?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> - Jim
> 
> Have you looked at Catalyst::Plugin::Params::Nested to see if that does 
> what you want first?
> 
> Ash

I had not, thanks!

Looks interesting, but it doesn't provide for arrays?

Also, my plugin wouldn't alter $c->request->params, and the 
$c->params_to_structure method it provides wouldn't be called 
automatically for every request... it would need to be called manually. 
  This isn't something I would expect to need on every form.

Also, I had planned on providing a method for reading a data structure 
into $c->request, something that could be useful for prefilling forms 
based on a complex data structure.

Jim