See also: Catalyst::Plugin::Log::Dispatch and
http://github.com/willert/catalyst-plugin-log4perl-simple/tree
-# REFACTORING
+## Capture arguments that the plack engine component was run with somewhere,
+ to more easily support custom args from scripts (e.g. Gitalist's
+ --git_dir)
-## PSGI
+## throw away the restarter and allow using the restarters Plack provides
-### Blockers
+## remove per-request state from the engine instance
- * Fix nginx middlewares so that they are generic, or can somehow
- be used by people with their own .psgi files
- * Fix a sane / nicer way to do custom engines.
+## be smarter about how we use PSGI - not every response needs to be delayed
+ and streaming
- * I've noticed a small difference with Catalyst::Test. The latest stable
- version include two headers, 'host' and 'https'. They are missing from
- this version.
+# The horrible hack for plugin setup - replacing it:
- * Installation issues with some common modules (from Task::Catalyst)
- - Catalyst::ActionRole::ACL (test failures, fix in repo:
- https://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-actionrole-acl/pull/1)
- - Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::DBIC ( test failure because of
- change to the way Test::Catalyst works, fix in repo at:
- http://dev.catalystframework.org/svnweb/Catalyst/revision?rev=14058)
- - Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork ?? maybe remove from Task::Catalyst?
- - CatalystX-SimpleLogin : will work once we fix Catalyst::ActionRole::ACL.
+ * Have a look at the Devel::REPL BEFORE_PLUGIN stuff
+ I wonder if what we need is that combined with plugins-as-roles
-#### Script survey
+# PSGI
-### Nice to have
+## To do at release time
- * Capture arguments that the plack engine component was run with somewhere,
- to more easily support custom args from scripts (e.g. Gitalist's
- --git_dir)
- * throw away the restarter and allow using the restarters Plack provides
- * remove per-request state from the engine instance
- * be smarter about how we use PSGI - not every response needs to be delayed
- and streaming
+ - Release psgi branch of Catalyst-Devel
+ - Release new Task::Catalyst
+ - Release 5.9 branch of Catalyst-Manual
+ - Release Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork with deprecation notice
+ + exit in Makefile.PL if Catalyst > 5.89 is installed.
-## The horrible hack for plugin setup - replacing it:
+## Blockers
- * Have a look at the Devel::REPL BEFORE_PLUGIN stuff
- I wonder if what we need is that combined with plugins-as-roles
+ * I've noticed a small difference with Catalyst::Test. The latest stable
+ version include two headers, 'host' and 'https'. They are missing from
+ this version - Pedro Melo on list
+ ^^ Cannot replicate this? Mailed back to ask for tests..
-## App / ctx split:
+# App / ctx split:
NOTE - these are notes that t0m thought up after doing back compat for
catalyst_component_class, may be inaccurate, wrong or missing things
- Profit! (Things like changing the complete app config per vhost, i.e.
writing a config loader / app class role which dispatches per vhost to
differently configured apps is piss easy)
+
+## GSOC
+
+### Final steps for GSOC
+
+##### Things that work:
+
+ - the default container loads all components, calls ACCEPT_CONTEXT() when appropriate, and COMPONENT() when appropriate, behaving like current Catalyst does
+
+ - its possible to create a custom container, and override the components you want. Lifecycle, class, dependencies, all overridable.
+
+ - config files are loaded without Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader
+
+ - per request life cycle somewhat works
+
+ - external modules are loaded just using a custom container, much like Catalyst::Model::Adaptor
+
+##### Things that don't work:
+
+ - expand_component_module
+
+ - Some back compat
+ - wrappers around setup_component, setup_components in Catalyst.pm
+ - $instance->expand_modules
+ - search_extra
+ - Crazy tests for things such as:
+ sub COMPONENT {
+ ...
+ *${appclass}::Model::TopLevel::GENERATED::ACCEPT_CONTEXT = sub { ... };
+ ...
+ }
+
+##### Need planning, have questions:
+
+ - per request life cycle
+
+ - sugar - we should discuss the syntax with rafl and edenc
+ - what's missing?
+
+ - when / when not COMPONENT should be called
+
+ - locate_components service vs setup_components method
+ - can we be more lazy?
+ - should setup_components be a service that things like the ->component lookup
+ can depend on?
+
+ - There are a few more FIXMEs, idk if any relevant here
+
+### Next steps - planned:
+
+ - some imports need to get the importing package in Catalyst::IOC
+ - done - needs testing
+
+ - Back compat for Catalyst.pm moved methods (locate_components)
+ - done - needs testing
+
+ - Test custom container
+ - writing some tests which verify that the models you think should be
+ there are there, and that they received their dependencies as arguments
+ - i.e. Model::Bar should get params { foo => $model_foo } when being
+ constructed, etc
+ - Need to test that if you have a standard component Frotz
+ and a customized component Fnar, and Fnar depends on Frotz
+ - And yeah, some tests that the customised components actually work via
+ $c->model('Foo'), and that COMPONENT is called (or not called)
+ as appropiate and that ACCEPT_CONTEXT is called (or not) as appropriate
+
+### Next steps - less planned:
+
+ - make ACCEPT_CONTEXT and COMPONENT optional in Catalyst::IOC::BlockInjection and Catalyst::IOC::ConstructorInjection
+ - Create COMPONENTSingleton life cycle
+
+ - Test cases for extending the container in an application.
+ - Using the sugar added in the previous item
+ - Test when Model::Foo depends_on Model::Bar
+ - Test for component Foo => ( lifecycle => 'Singleton', class => 'My::External::Class', dependencies => { config => depends_on("config") } )
+ - Fix ^^ so that you can get your component's namespaced config nicely.
+
+ - Tests for using the container outside of Catalyst
+ - Custom container which adds some (very simple) services which are initialized from
+ the application config file (note plain services, not components)
+ - Depend on (and test) these inside Catalyst
+ - Test loading container outside Catalyst, and these services working
+ - Test Catalyst / MyApp is not loaded
+
+#### Extending my app, notes
+
+Basically try to implement something like this (starting out without the sugar!), and see how it breaks
+and what needs to be done to fix it!
+
+##### Eventual syntax
+
+package MyApp::Container;
+use Catalyst::IOC;
+
+ container $self, as {
+ container model => as {
+ component Foo => (); # As per default!
+ component Bar => (dependencies => ['/model/Foo']); # Magic!
+ component Baz => ( lifecycle => 'InstancePerContext );
+ component Quux => ( lifecycle => 'Singleton' ); # ACCEPT_CONTEXT not called
+ # Catalyst::Model::Adaptor example
+ conponent Fnar => ( lifecycle => 'Singleton', class => 'My::External::Class', dependencies => { config => depends_on('config')} );
+ # ^^ FIXME - gets whole config, not Model::Foo
+ # There should be a 'nice' way to get the 'standard' config
+ };
+ # Note - implementation of BB may need to be changed to support making sure existing
+ # services actually get overridden. not sure how the default container behaves when doing that
+ # above code would build the constructor injection as it currently does,
+ # defaulting to the class name in the right namespace as declared by the surrounding container
+ # as well as adding using the catalyst-specific service class
+ };
+
+1;