[Catalyst] Restarting Catalyst on request or doing something per request

[Chris]

> So from my point of view the best way would be to reload the lexicon data
> once it has changed.  As this is not possible without manually restarting
> apache, this leads me to reloading the lexicon after the database contents
> has changed within each apache client on request start (before any lexicon
> text is requested).  I could initiate this within an auto sub in Root.pm,
> but this seems very ugly.  I guess a new plugin (like
> C::P::I18N::DBI::Reloader) would be good.  What do you think?
>

You're facing the overhead of checking for text changes on each
request, so a plugin hooking early in the request sounds effective. I
wonder if you could force a reload using a SIG{USR1} handler and avoid
a per-request check?

Good luck with it.

- Chris