Announcing Catalyst::Action::FromPSGI

At YAPC this year I spoke with Stevan Little about his new module, Web::Machine. He mentioned that ultimately he wanted to figure out how to shim it into Catalyst. mst actually implemented something like that exactly a month ago, and I actually want to use it to make little redistributable apps that are the backend implementations of the gadgets for our dashboards at work. So I took Matt’s code and made a module!

Catalyst::Action::FromPSGI

Here’s the stupid obvious mostly worthless example:

sub from_plack :Path('/lol') :ActionClass('FromPSGI') {
   sub {
     [ 200,
        [ 'Content-type' => 'text/plain' ],
        [ 'lololol' ],
     ]
   }
}

So that’s neat, but who cares? What’s really nice is that you can pass stuff from Catalyst into the PSGI app. Here’s an example of something like that:

sub from_plack :Path('/my_lol') :ActionClass('FromPSGI') {
   my $username = $_[1]->user->obj->name;
   sub {
     [ 200,
        [ 'Content-type' => 'text/plain' ],
        [ "lol: $username" ],
     ]
   }
}

Anyway, I’ll have another post in a few days of how I am looking forward to using this. Have fun!

Posted Mon, Jun 25, 2012

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