[Catalyst] Shoot out -- Catalyst / RoR / Other MVC apps --

[Peter Karman]

Dave Rolsky scribbled on 5/9/07 10:02 AM:

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> That's the subclassing piece. The delegation is that rather than 
> implement the functionality of breadcrumbs in the response object, the 
> breadcrumbs accessor simply returns a VegGuide::Breadcrumbs object.
> 

ah. that makes sense. Now I have a name for something I already do. :)

> On a side note, Catalyst plugins as a rule seem to jam _way_ too many 
> methods into the things they extend (the session plugin is truly 
> egregious). Some day I'd like to write a version of the session plugin 
> that adds one method to the core Catalyst object, session(), and all the 
> rest of the methods would be available via the object returned from 
> session().
> 

Yes, the Catalyst::Plugin::Cache system could work much the same way. There seem 
to be a lot of syntatically sweet methods in some plugins that just wrap around 
the core method.

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Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  peter at peknet.com