[Dancer-users] Dancer::Forms

[damien krotkine]

Hi,

Thanks for the work !

I'm a bit worried about the fact that it lies under the Dancer
namespace, but doesn't depend on Dancer really.
Could this be rename to a different module name, and then a new Dancer
Plugin be written, that would use it ?

dams


On 11 January 2012 15:03, T. Linden <tom at linden.at> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> first of all I'd like to thank the developers of Dancer so much. It's a
> great thing and I love it more from day to day!
>
> While I'm new to Dancer, I'm not new to perl, but were using Django as
> app server for a long time now. Some day I thaught: this has to be done
> in perl, dammit - and I discovered Dancer.
>
> However, I missed one thing, that is the forms module of Django. With
> forms you can validate user input, and generate forms. Since I didn't
> find anything near such a thing, I implemented it myself: Dancer::Forms.
>
> It does the very same as the Django forms system does: you define some
> fields, how they shall be validated, feed your template with it, and
> that's it.
>
> Beside user input validation I also added a CSRF protection feature to
> the module. This one could be better put into a Dancer plugin perhaps,
> I'm unsure...
>
> The name maybe misleading, since Dancer::Forms does in fact not depend
> on Dancer. So it could be used in other environments as well. I hope it
> is ok, to put it into the Dancer:: namespace anyway.
>
> There's still lots of things to do, like more unit tests, better
> debugging possibilities and - maybe - some kind of "model forms" sub
> module, which generates the forms from a dbic definition...
>
>
> Take a look: https://metacpan.org/module/Dancer::Forms
>
>
>
> best regards,
> Tom
>
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