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Catalyst 5.8: the Perl MVC Framework

By : Antano Solar John
Book Image

Catalyst 5.8: the Perl MVC Framework

By: Antano Solar John

Overview of this book

<p>Many web applications are implemented in a way that makes developing them difficult and repetitive. Catalyst is an open source Perl-based Model-View-Controller framework that aims to solve this problem by reorganizing your web application to design and implement it in a natural, maintainable, and testable manner, making web development fun, fast, and rewarding.<br /><br />This book teaches you how to use Catalyst to weave the various components involved in a web application, using methods and tools you personally prefer along with recommendations and details on the most popularly used objects like the DBIX ORM, TT2 Template, and Moose.<br /><br />This book will take you from how the MVC pattern simplifies creating quality applications to how Catalyst allows you to tap this power instantly. It explains advanced design patterns and concludes with the improvements that Moose brings to all this. It also incorporates valuable suggestions and feedback received from the community members and our customers. By the end of the book, you will be able to build clean, scalable, and extendable web applications. This book embodies Catalyst's philosophies of Do It Yourself and Don't Repeat Yourself.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Catalyst 5.8
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
7
Hot Web Topics
Index

Handling URL requests


When a user makes a request using the browser, Catalyst will look for the appropriate method that can handle the request within packages called Controllers. These Controller methods send back a response to the requesting agent like the browser.

We will discuss in detail later in this chapter how controller methods are mapped to URLs and vice versa. However, for now, let's stick to a basic format where the first argument in the URL is the name of the Controller, the second argument is the method within the Controller, and the rest of the arguments are arguments to the Controller method. For example, http://localhost:3000/hello/index will match the hello Controller (Hello.pm) and index will match the subroutine index (sub index) within the hello Controller (Hello.pm).

If the Controller method is not mentioned, then the index method is taken as default.

Let's create a new Controller called "Hello" to check this (this should respond to the /hello request):

perl script/myapp_create...