[Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure

[Martin Bendix]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Ben van Staveren <benvanstaveren at gmail.com>
> To: The elegant MVC web framework <catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk>
> Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 15:13:00
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Begginer's question about application structure
> 
> Personally (and this does mean personally), I'd do it as follows:
> 
> Your  actual "logic" code (e.g. the whole deal of storing and retrieving things 
>from  the database) should be in a separate set of modules. Call those the 
>'backend'  stuff. The main module here should be able to connect to the database 
>on it's  own, given the location of a config file, and it should be able to take 
>an  existing configuration and DB handle from Catalyst;
> 
> e.g.
> my $backend =  My::Backend->new(config_file => 'foo.cfg');
> 
> or
> 
> my $backend =  My::Backend->new(config => $c->config, database =>  $c->model);
> 
> (the above isn't quite correct but forgot what I used  myself).
> 
> Then you can easily wrap that into a Model; and do things  like:
> 
> $c->model('Backend')->get_me_an_artist()
> 
> The advantage  here being that you can also use your backend outside of 
>Catalyst, so writing a  console app becomes trivial at that point.
> 
> Sorry for the slightly  disjointed reply but doing about 234413 things at the 
>same time  :D
> 

Hi Ben,

Thank you for your reply.  I was leaning towards that approach myself, and have 
written a couple of modules which allow me to grab the config and database 
connections from an external model.



Martin