[Catalyst] Using Workflow with Catalyst (was Making Controllers thin and Models thick)

Ian Docherty catalyst at iandocherty.com
Tue Jul 24 14:43:12 GMT 2007


Thanks for pointing out the workflow CPAN module. I am very interested 
in this for my current project and must spend some time looking at it.

Has anyone actually used workflow within a Catalyst application and can 
they give the list their opinion and experiences with it?

Regards
Ian Docherty

John Napiorkowski wrote:
> Considering that you can set actions and action
> classes via the central configuration file for a
> controller you could eventually get down to not
> needing any code, just configuration declarations. 
> Still need to write a stub for your controllers
> though.
>
> I'm going to trying using the Workflow module
> (http://search.cpan.org/~jonasbn/Workflow-0.28/) on my
> next project and see if that can fill a missing piece
> for me conceptually.  I think it can help cover the
> state issues you mentioned.  Plus it has a validation
> framework as part of it.
>
> I end up with more in the database because the
> applications I'm writing will end up being used by
> other systems and I can't count on the PHP people
> validating their incoming stuff properly :)
>
> --John
>   




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