[Catalyst] Which Form Validation Libs?

[Shlomi Fish]

On Tuesday 30 November 2010 11:31:56 David Schmidt wrote:
> another great module which from my perception is used the most lately is
> 
> HTML::FormHandler
> http://search.cpan.org/~gshank/HTML-FormHandler-0.32005/
> 

I can recommend *against* HTML-FormHandler.

For my day job's Perl and Catalyst project, we initially decided to go with 
HTML-FormHandler, only to discover it was buggy, quirky and had severe memory 
leaks. We ended up doing many workarounds and recently made a transition from 
it to HTML-FormFu, which while by no means perfect, is much saner.

My co-worker "nothingmuch" who has done many of the workarounds can provide 
further comments on it. Recently I had to over-ride a role in the login form 
(for which we need to use HTML-FormHandler due to CatalystX::SimpleLogin) that 
will accept an empty string as the 'action=""' attribute because it only 
placed true values of the attribute there, which ruled out empty strings. But 
I recall many other fun hours debugging HTML-FormHandler.

Stay away if you can.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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