[Catalyst] Command-line utility using Controller - examples?

Ronald J Kimball rkimball+catalyst at pangeamedia.com
Tue Jul 17 14:21:59 GMT 2007


Brandon Black wrote:
> The View should handle everything specific to HTML rendering, and the
> Controller should really be a very thin translation layer that maps
> HTTP inputs into View updates and Model calls.  In a design laid out
> like that, your question would become "How do I write a utility script
> that will invoke some of my Model code", and the answer would be "use
> your non-Catalyst underlying Model class directly from the script and
> call whatever you need to call".

That's actually what I ended up doing, just loading the Schema classes 
directly and adding the bit of extra handling that I wanted from the 
Controller.  (The Controller in this case is probably not as thin as it 
should be. :)

thanks,
Ronald



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