[Catalyst] MyApp::C::PageHooks - thoughts ?

[Matthew Pitts]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 15:52 -0500, Wade.Stuart at fallon.com wrote:
> Why not just store promos in the database and have a static controller
> that
> acts on active promos?  No changing application code for the promo.
> easy
> to do future promos too as you can have an epoch start and end time
> for the
> promo in the db tables that the controller takes into account.

This is actually how it works - I have a generic Promotions controller
that looks them up from the db and applies date filtering, but it
"proxies" action calls to a first-class controller for a given
promotion if a corresponding controller exists. So, if I have a
promotion with a defined moniker of 'MidnightMadness' and a
Controller::Promotions::MidnightMadness exists, then action calls get
proxied to this controller.

Because of this particular client's needs there is no way to pigeon hole
promotions into a standard set of code. Sometimes they want "this",
sometimes they want "that". So, I still need to have a first-class
controller for a given promotion. This is why I did the hooks - I can
have a generic interface where any promotion can manipulate the stash.

The big caveat is that I have to define the places where I want hooks
and over time they could get messy.

Thanks for the input.

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Matthew W. Pitts
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