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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

Basic CRUD


Let's start by writing the easiest method, a method to delete a person from the database. All we need is a simple action in the Person Controller. (Note: The order of the methods in the Person.pm file does not matter. You can add this method before or after sub index{ }):

sub delete : Local {
  my ($self, $c, $id) = @_;
  my $person = $c->model('AddressDB::People')->
  find({id => $id});
  $c->stash->{person} = $person;
  if($person){
    $c->stash->{message} = 'Deleted '. $person->name;
    $person->delete;
  }
  else {
    $c->response->status(404);
    $c->stash->{error} = "No person $id";
  }
  $c->forward('list');
}

This action will create a URL that looks like /person/delete/1, where 1 is the person's ID number in the database. Using that ID number that's passed in the URL, we look for the row in the database with that ID. If we find one, we set the status message to Deleted Person's Name and then delete the person (the delete method...