[Dancer-users] creating an abstract class and then basing other classes on that

[P Kishor]

I upgraded to 1.1808, to benefit from the new work done by the
developers, and also to try out the new, multi-folder pattern
suggested by Sukria. So, now I have

 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 { "
   template '/function1/index';
};

So, first, in my subapps, I have to specify the full relative path to
the views as shown above. That works. But, now I want to create
modules for the subapps as well. This would be in the spirit of how
there is Dancer::Session::Abstract, and then, there are the real
Dancer::Session::YAML and Dancer::Session::Simple, etc. My reason is
thus -- take either function1 or function2, and provide the ability to
query data with the same call, but from different data stores based on
a config setting. So, the user calls `data()` but if the config
setting is 'db' then get the data from a database, or if the config
setting is 'file' then get the data from a file. So, now I have

 appdir/
     yourapp.pl
     lib/
       yourapp.pm
       yourapp/
         function1.pm
         function1/
            data.pm
            file.pm
         function2.pm
         function2/
            data.pm
            file.pm

But, I can't figure out what is the path to my modules? For example,
in function1.pm, should I say `use function1::data` or `use
yourapp::function1::data`?


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Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org
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Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu
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