[Catalyst] Which Form Validation Libs?

[Hernan Lopes]

formhandler and formbuilder have some syntax similarities. shouldnt be hard
to move from one to the other.
Just in case you are curiousm, here are some examples:
FormBuilder: http://www.formbuilder.org/tutor/index.pl?c=3D1&s=3D5
FormHandler:
http://search.cpan.org/~gshank/HTML-FormHandler-0.32005/lib/HTML/FormHandle=
r/Manual/Catalyst.pod

--Hernan

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> 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/<http://search.=
cpan.org/%7Egshank/HTML-FormHandler-0.32005/>
> >
>
> I can recommend *against* HTML-FormHandler.
>
> For my day job's Perl and Catalyst project, we initially decided to go wi=
th
> 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 provi=
de
> 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=3D""' 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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