[Catalyst] Question about Angerwhale Catalyst Application

[Matt S Trout]

On 9 Feb 2007, at 19:52, Jonathan Rockway wrote:

> John Napiorkowski wrote:
>> I was under the impression that it you needed the
>> context in a component you needed to override
>> ACCEPT_CONTEXT, since new is only called once when the
>> application starts up.  Using ACCEPT_CONTEXT
>> transforms your component to a type Class, since it
>> creates a new object for each request instead of using
>> the same one over and over.  But maybe I am not
>> understanding it?
>>
>>
>> Appreciate some thoughts, just trying to improve my
>> best practices.
>
> I only need $c so I can get at $c->cache and $c->model('UserStore') at
> the beginning.  Also, that code was written before I knew about
> ACCEPT_CONTEXT -- Angerwhale was my first foray into Catalyst.   
> Despite
> that, it's proven extremely easy to maintain, extend, and refactor.

That's actually $app at new() time, not a request-level $c. Maybe if  
you renamed it it'd be less confusing?

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