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mdietrich at cpan

Jun 1, 2009, 6:47 AM

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Plugin or controller?

Hi,

Matt S Trout redirected me to this list to discuss a "new" plugin for
Catalyst. But I guess I need to reach back a bit.

I surfed on CPAN yesterday and found the module
Catalyst::Controller::RateLimit. One of my first thouhgts was, this
module should has been written as a plugin, not as a controller
because it extends an application with functionality which is neither
business logic nor controller actions.

I then contacted the author and stated my thoughts. Andrey Kostenko ( http://search.cpan.org/~gugu
) answered that he first wrote it as a plugin, but the list
suggested to find another namespace. So he has chosen the Controller
namespace. He suggested to rewrite the module so that it is based on
Algorithm::TokenBucket instead of Algorithm::FloodControl and file it
under the Plugin namespace.

To my module proposing Matt answered:

> It's normal for Catalyst plugins to be rewritten to become controllers
> - trying to go the other way round strongly suggests a design
> mistake to me.

In my opinion, the module Catalyst::Controller::RateLimit should be
Catalyst::Plugin::RateLimit. But may be I'm wrong. What does the
list think about this?

Thanks,
matt

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Subject	User	Time
Plugin or controller?	mdietrich at cpan	Jun 1, 2009, 6:47 AM
Re: Plugin or controller?	bobtfish at bobtfish	Jun 1, 2009, 8:42 AM
Re: Plugin or controller?	mdietrich at cpan	Jun 1, 2009, 8:50 AM
Re: Plugin or controller?	jshirley at gmail	Jun 1, 2009, 9:13 AM
Re: Plugin or controller?	bobtfish at bobtfish	Jun 1, 2009, 10:10 AM
Re: Plugin or controller?	dbix-class at trout	Jun 8, 2009, 12:02 PM
Re: Plugin or controller?	mdietrich at cpan	Jun 1, 2009, 9:46 AM
Re: Plugin or controller?	jshirley at gmail	Jun 1, 2009, 9:56 AM
Re: Plugin or controller?	mdietrich at cpan	Jun 1, 2009, 10:11 AM
Re: Plugin or controller?	jayk at ion0	Jun 1, 2009, 2:42 PM
Re: Plugin or controller?	kiki at bsdro	Jun 2, 2009, 2:48 AM
Re: Plugin or controller?	pagaltzis at gmx	Jun 2, 2009, 3:31 AM

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