[Catalyst] Re: Form validation in insert() and update()?

[mla]

A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Dave Rolsky <autarch at urth.org> [2007-05-20 16:40]:
>> If the action is a create or update, you want to redirect to
>> the URI for the thing being created or updated. You may _also_
>> want to include some form "successfully updated" message, so
>> this pattern works well for this. That's not very RESTful,
>> though, which is making me think about this some more for my
>> latest project.
> 
> Why not stash the message in the query string for the redirect
> target? Or a hash key.
> 
>     303 See Other
>     Location: /article/why-webarch-matters?msg=created
> 
> Then have infrastructure for an `msg` param to cause a message
> box to be shown, with the content “Your article was successfully
> created” as found under the `created` key of your message
> phrasebook (which also gives you a convenient hook for i18n).
> 
> It looks a bit crude, but it’s actually a rather good solution in
> REST terms. (Eg. intermediaries won’t cache that resource as the
> same you can retrieve from /article/why-webarch-matters where the
> message box is missing; etc.)

Except then the end-user can bookmark that success URL, which
isn't ideal. I've used that approach before and it worked okay,
but I think the flash message makes more sense for this.

Maurice