[dancer-users] Running a bot as a REST webservice

[Pierre M]

Great stuff Sawyer, thank you!
I had a look at Dancer2::Session::Memcached, and just realized that I only
really need to store a session token (from a 3rd party service that the bot
interacts with). So I probably only have to use Dancer2::Session::Cookie.
Let's see how to integrate that elegantly into the design...

If I even need to store a whole object in the future, I'll know where to
look.

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On 6 December 2013 11:53, sawyer x <xsawyerx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Every request from the web server generates a call to the application code
> reference that is built by "dance". Variables do not persist between
> requests, nor should they.
>
> You could solve it by keeping the variable in a cache. You could use
> Memcached, KiokuDB, or the likes. Another way would be to simply login
> every time you make a request. This is what's done in scopes in KiokuDB.
>
> Another way to solve it, uglier IMHO, is using singletons. But that's just
> having global scope for stuff, which you should generally avoid.
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Pierre M <piemas25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi, I'm making a bot. I'm trying to integrate it into a Dancer2 app, in
>> order to make a REST API for it, and later be able to interact with it from
>> the browser.
>>
>> It logs in to an external webservice, like this:
>>     $bot->login($username, $password);
>> This stores some credentilals in the bot, which uses them for other
>> requests.
>> And then it does some other stuff:
>>     $->do_stuff;
>> The bot exists and can make these very basic operations from a script.
>>
>> To create the REST API with Dancer2, I made something in those lines:
>>     my $bot = MyBot->new;
>>     post '/login.json' => sub {
>>         my ($username, $password) = (params->{username},
>> params->{password});
>>
>>         $bot->login($username, $password);    # Store credentials in the
>> bot
>>     };
>> This works perfectly.
>>
>> And then
>>     post '/do_stuff.json' => sub {
>>         $bot->do_stuff;
>>     }
>> This doesn't work: when I call '/login.json', followed by
>> '/do_stuff.json', the second request fails because the credentials are not
>> present:  it seems to not be interacting with the same $bot object than the
>> login request.
>>
>> It works if add
>>     $bot->login( ... )
>> at the beginning of the '/do_stuff.json' subroutine, but I don't want to
>> login at each new request.
>>
>> What is a clean solution for this use case?
>>
>> * 30 minutes later *
>> I have found Dancer2::Plugin::Adapter<https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2::Plugin::Adapter>and the "singleton" scope, which seems to be what I need. But it won't
>> install. I will send a RT ticket.
>> Any idea for an alternative solution?
>>
>>
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