[Catalyst] Sending Email from Page?

[Stuart Watt]

On 22/03/2011 9:38 AM, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
> On 3/22/2011 7:44 AM, Octavian Rasnita 
> octavian.rasnita-at-ssifbroker.ro |Catalyst/Allow to home| wrote:
>>    Another advantage of using a model versus creating the object and 
>> using a mailer directly is that maybe after a certain time will 
>> appear a much better mailer than Mail::Builder::Simple, and you may 
>> want to switch to the new mailer. In that case you will need to make 
>> some changes in a single model, and not in every controller.
>>
> That is an argument for abstracting and encapsulating, not for using a 
> Model per se.
>
> The module I'm using already wraps a module with abstracts different 
> kinds of mailers, so there comes a point where I have to say enough is 
> enough.
>
Is the limitation just in the Catalyst detection of components, and its 
use of set search packages. I guess you could write a plugin to modify 
the $c->locate_components handling to search in ::Component as well as 
::Model, ::View, etc. Then you could incorporate any additional 
component, without being bound to call it a model or a view or a 
controller. Personally, I think that could be a good thing, as there is 
a definite need for components which may not be best shoehorned into a 
model. I have a write-only logging component which I have called a model 
as it is backed by a database, but it probably isn't really a model, and 
I'd happily update in this way.

All the best
Stuart