[Catalyst] Dispatching based on path and host/domain

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:22:55AM +0100, Curtis Fletcher wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Pitts [mailto:mpitts at a3its.com] 
> > Sent: 22 April 2008 03:06
> > To: The elegant MVC web framework
> > Subject: RE: [Catalyst] Dispatching based on path and host/domain
> > 
> > > You've probably heard this before on the list, but...
> > > 
> > > Ideally, you shouldn't have enough code in your Controllers 
> > to justify
> > > "sharing" the app across domains that need different functionality.
> > The
> > > meat of the app should be in the Models, then you can just run
> > multiple
> > > Cat apps - one with Cart controllers and one without - that use the
> > > same
> > > "shared" Models.

Disagree. Just because you want to minimise code in the controller doesn't
mean you don't want to consider this to be the 'same app'.

You're making a valid design point, but then jumping from there to an
invalid one by ... well, handwaving so far as I can see.
 
> Absolutely right, my controllers are much, much too heavy. This all came
> from "learning as I went" and I distinctly remember the point at which I
> gave up trying to put business logic in the model. At the time there
> seemed to be minimal if any examples that illustrated the model being
> anything other than an adaptor for DBIx::Class::Schema so I just figured
> I was mistaken in my attempt to do so.
> 
> So could I ask, now I know a little more than I did then, Does everyone
> here subclass DBIx::Class::Resultset (a-la
> http://catalyst.perl.org/calendar/2007/16) for their business logic
> specific methods? (Well those that use DBIx::Class as their model
> anyway)

No, generally they don't. That's why they end up with controllers full of
crap.

Anybody trying to write -actual- MVC code with Catalyst+DBIC will have
resultset classes though :)

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