[Catalyst] A Catalyst::Plugin::Session Alternative: Web::Starch

[Aran Deltac]

Ya, I have Plack::Middleware::Session listed in the alternatives section of
the manual.  Thanks for the reply!

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:14 AM Hartmaier Alexander <
alexander.hartmaier at t-systems.at> wrote:

>  Hi Aran,
> did you look at Plack::Session if you want something decoupled from
> Catalyst?
> I haven't used it so far as I don't require sessions that are shared with
> non-Catalyst stuff but it might be a better base for a futureproof session
> module.
>
> On 2015-07-09 02:17, Aran Deltac wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
>  I've been working on a project which is a (mostly) drop in replacement
> for Catalyst::Plugin::Session.  Here are the GitHub repos:
>
>  https://github.com/bluefeet/Web-Starch
> https://github.com/bluefeet/Web-Starch-Store-CHI
> https://github.com/bluefeet/Web-Starch-Store-AmazonDynamoDB
> https://github.com/bluefeet/Web-Starch-Plugin-Sereal
> https://github.com/bluefeet/Catalyst-Plugin-Starch
>
>  The manual is a good place to start:
>
>
> https://github.com/bluefeet/Web-Starch/blob/master/lib/Web/Starch/Manual.pod
>
>  I'm using this @work and will be deploying it to production, replacing
> Catalyst::Plugin::Session, sometime next week if all goes well this week.
>
>  I've not put these modules on CPAN yet as I'd love some feedback before
> I do so.  I want to make sure the module names, the interfaces, and just
> the entire design are acceptable to people.  I want this to be a real step
> forward.
>
>  @work we've made extensive use of Catalyst::Plugin::Sesssion for years
> now, and related modules such as Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication.  So far
> everything has "just worked" when I replaced Catalyst::Plugin::Session with
> Catalyst::Plugin::Starch.
>
>  Why do this?
>
>    - Catalyst::Plugin::Session (C:P:S) is slower in NYTProf reports than
>    I would expect it to be.
>    - C:P:S is tied into Catalyst.  This is unnecessary.  Catalyst should
>    be used to glue things together, not as a platform to build whole
>    technologies on.  By decoupling sessions from Catalyst many wins can be had
>    in reusability and unit testing (etc?).
>    - C:P:S can be difficult and messy to extend.  This is partly due to
>    how Catalyst plugins work, but also due to the design of C:P:S.
>
>  Aran
>
>
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