simon.baird at gmail
May 28, 2009, 4:18 PM
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Re: Looking for a working example using DBIC and Authentication
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Tomas Doran <bobtfish[at]bobtfish.net> wrote:
> Simon Baird wrote:
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>> [1] Well perhaps some details in brief note form...
>> - The Authentication section of the Tutorial in CPAN uses some
>> deprecated stuff (I find out eventually)
>> - I got Auth working with DBIC as per the docs (with users, roles,
>> user_roles tables) but without a realm. So I can use (the deprecated)
>> $c->login but $c->authenticate doesn't work...
>> - After decided I would give up and just keep using the $c->login I
>> tried adding another table to my DBIC Schema. This caused Auth to stop
>> working...
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> Hi.
>
> The tutorial on CPAN hasn't used anything deprecated for a _long time_ as
> far as I can see.
>
> It was recently (09th May) switched to use the newer
> Catalyst::Authentication::Realm::SimpleDB, as this is easier to setup for
> beginners, but previous to that it still used the 'new' authentication
> setup.
>
> Going back to Catalyst-Manual-5.701004 (released 09th April 2008 i.e. over a
> year ago), the Authentication section of the tutorial is using the 'new'
> authentication method.
>
> Could you possibly review the latest version of the authentication section
> in the tutorial, and send us some feedback about where it should go into
> more detail, and what you think is confusing or missing? (Or, if you think
> I'm full of lies, and it recommends deprecated things, please point out
> where so I can LART myself).
>
> I appreciate that you seem to be quite frustrated with your experience, but
> I'd really like to (a) get you happy so that your app works as expected with
> the recommended authentication stuff, (b) get this sorted out so that nobody
> else goes down this path in future.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> t0m
>
Thanks for the advice. I might start fresh and see if I can pinpoint
where things went wrong.
Simon.
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