[Catalyst] How to de-serialize json?

[Tomas Doran]

On 27 Jan 2010, at 15:33, Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> No big deal.  I was just curious why the HTTP::Body approach was not  
> used in the existing REST/RPC modules, as that was already the place  
> used by Catalyst to de-serialize the body.  I thought maybe there  
> was a reason I might not understood, which is why I asked.

HTTP::Body isn't really structured for this - you can (and I _do_ in  
one of my apps) add or override the content type handlers.

However as it's class data, this is perl interpreter wide - which  
means that two different applications with conflicting requirements  
can't exist in the same mod_perl interpreter - not awesome.

Given that the serialization/deserialization isn't hard as is (as  
noted elsewhere in the thread), I guess that the (potential) overlap  
isn't too great to be worth trying to do something about this..

Cheers
t0m