[Catalyst] CatalystX::CRUD Storage Error

[Peter Karman]

Amiri Barksdale wrote on 7/27/09 8:46 PM:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:33:38PM -0500, Peter Karman wrote:
> | Also, your controller inherits from the base CatalystX::CRUD::Controller, which
> | doesn't really *do* anything by default. I.e., you need a form handler to
> | serialize and validate your model. Look at CatalystX::CRUD::Controller::RHTMLO
> | for one example. Or consider writing a controller base class that adapts your
> | favorite form handler (HTML::FormFu or Form::Processor or ...).
> 
> I am making quite a bit of headway with this, and I have chosen
> HTML::FormHandler as...my form handler.
> 
> I am having some difficulty integrating the two, though. A controller
> and a form that it uses look like this:
> 
> http://scsys.co.uk:8001/31717
> 
> When I start the server and try to look at ui/crud/creator/list, I get
> this error:
> 
> Caught exception in ml2::Controller::UI::CRUD::Creator->auto "Attribute
> (form) does not pass the type constraint because: Validation failed for
> 'ml2::Forms::CreatorForm' failed with value ml2=HASH(0xd27cf30) (not isa
> ml2::Forms::CreatorForm) at
> /home/amiri/mlrepo/lib/perl5/CatalystX/CRUD/Controller.pm line 110
> 
> Instead of C::X::CRUD loading the form, it is loading the whole
> application class.
> 
> Is my controller still misconfigured?

no, it's a bug in the documentation. The default form() method looks like this:

sub form {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    # ...
}

and so your override needs to expect $c as well.

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