[Dancer-users] multi-folder Dancer app

[P Kishor]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:21 AM, sukria <sukria at sukria.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:32:54 -0500, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> app/
>>     environments/
>>     view/
>>     lib/
>>     public/
>>     t/
>>
>> The above works well for a relatively simple application, but if I
>> have several groups of relatively complicated functions, I would like
>> to group them by, well, by functions. Here is what I would like --
>>
>> app/
>>     function1/
>>     function2/
>>
>> function1 and function2 would be like mini dancer apps in their own
>> right, but would share common resources such as top menu, login
>> capabilities, logos, images (common to the both of them), master style
>> sheet, etc. They would likely also share a fair bit of common Perl
>> code, and also some data tables from a db.
>>
>> What is a suggested pattern for that?
>
> This is where you really should upgrade to 1.1806_02, in order to benefit
> from the 'load_app' feature.
>
> You'll be able to do the following:
>
>    appdir/
>      yourapp.pl
>      lib/
>        yourapp.pm
>        yourapp/
>          function1.pm
>          function2.pm
>      views/
>        function1/
>        function2/
>
> in yourapp.pm, you mount your subapps like that
>
> package yourapp;
> use Dancer ':syntax';
>
> load_app 'yourapp::function1', prefix => '/function1';
> load_app 'yourapp::function2', prefix => '/function2';
> ...
>
> and in your subapps:
>
> package yourapp::function1;
> use Dancer ':syntax';
>
> get '/' => sub { "root of function1" };
>
> ...
>
>



Very nice. Just what I want. However, any ETA on when 1.1806 will
become stable? I am loathe ot jump with my moving train on another
moving train.




>



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