[Catalyst] Implementing Webhooks.

[Bill Moseley]

I'm running Catalyst under mod_perl2 (currently, subject to change).   Some
requests trigger a callback to a user-provided URL -- a webhook.

Obviously, it's best to do those asynchronously and not in-process.   Don't
want a web request (or really an Apache process) hanging while waiting on
an external web server to respond.

A queue is probably the best approach, but there's also some advantage of
having the Catalyst app make the webhook request -- specifically because
the Catalyst app has the context of the request and has application logging
available.

How would you implement this?


How would that change if you wanted more than just "fire-and-forget"?  For
example, if you wanted to provide some kind of retry interval for failed
callbacks. The external server might be temporarily down for maintenance.


Thanks,


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Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
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