[Catalyst] parameter validation

[Matt S Trout]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:08:46PM +0100, Caroline Johnston wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This isn't strictly a catalyst question, but it arose from a previous
> thread,
> http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/catalyst/2007-December/016329.html, on
> parameter validation and the problems of code like
> 
>   my $user = $rs->create({ 
>       is_admin => 0,
>       username => $c->req->param('username'), 
>   });
> 
> 
> I'm using Data::FormValidator. If I have a DFV constraint on fields that 
> shouldn't be multi-valued, something like:
> 
> sub is_single{
>     my $c = shift;
>     return sub{
> 	my $dfv = shift;
> 	$dfv->name_this('is_single');
> 	my $field = $dfv->get_current_constraint_field;
> 	my $data = $dfv->get_filtered_data;
>         my $test = $data->{$field};
> 	return ref $test ? 0:1;
>     }
> }
> 
> should that allow me to use validated parameters in hashes with impunity
> or am I missing the point of the problem?

The point of that message was that $c->req->param('foo') is list context
aware whereas $c->req->params->{foo} isn't.

But once you've done the validating, you're going to be ok either way.

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