[Catalyst] Audit logs: model or controller?

[Charlie Garrison]

Good morning,

On 17/9/07 at 8:37 AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us> wrote:

>> Best practices say to only store the info from $context that you need
>> in your model rather than a reference to $context itself. IOW, if you
>> just need the current user object, then just store that. I don't
>> recall the reasoning for it though.
>
>You can try mixing in Catalyst::Component::ACCEPT_CONTEXT.  It will
>handle the ACCEPT_CONTEXT magic and provide $c as $self->context for
>you.  The reason for not storing $context in your model is because it
>will create a circular reference if you're not careful. 
>Catalyst::Component::ACCEPT_CONTEXT is careful, so you don't 
>need to
>worry about that. :)

Thanks for that reference. That was one of the sources I looked 
at, but I needed slightly different behaviour. I missed the 
'weaken' stuff though. Reading up on that now.


Charlie

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