[Catalyst] FormHandler -- pro or con?

[Hernan Lopes]

Formhandler works like a charm, does many useful checks and you wont have
any trouble with it. i have been using it for a while without any problem.
As for the memory leaks, it can affect you when resources are limited or
when you are running out of ram. (no idea if there are any leaks on
formhandler)
If you decide to change, formbuilder is the closest option to formhandler.
--Hernan

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:34 PM, will trillich
<will.trillich at serensoft.com>wrote:

> Anybody else *dissing* FormHandler? We've started developing based on
> FormHandler lately and haven't had troubles... yet?
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>
>> 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=3D""' attribute because it on=
ly
>> 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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