-Known Bugs:
- - Moose bug causes issues if you use Moose in your application, but want to
- use base classes which have not been converted to Moose yet.
+# Known Bugs:
- Tests in Moose for this are: http://tinyurl.com/c2k85c
+ - Bug ->go or ->visit causes actions which have Args or CaptureArgs called
+ twice when called via ->go or ->visit.
- Note: This issue _does not affect_ components which have been converted to
- Moose, or applications which do not use Moose, and causes a
- compile-time error if present.
+ Test app: http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-bug-go_chain/tree/master
- - Bugs with actions with Args or CaptureArgs being caled multiple times
- when called via ->go or ->visit.
+# Compatibility warnings to add:
+
+ - $self->config should warn as config should only ever be called as a
+ class method (TESTS).
+
+# Proposed functionality / feature additions:
+
+## Log setup needs to be less lame
+
+So Catalyst::Plugin::Log::* can die
+in a fire. Having $c->log_class would be a good start. kane volunteered
+to do some of this.
+
+Simple example: Catalyst::Plugin::Log::Colorful should just be a
+subclass of Catalyst::Log, no ::Plugin:: needed.
+
+See also: Catalyst::Plugin::Log::Dispatch and
+http://github.com/willert/catalyst-plugin-log4perl-simple/tree
+
+# REFACTORING
+
+## The horrible hack for plugin setup - replacing it:
+
+ * Have a look at the Devel::REPL BEFORE_PLUGIN stuff
+ I wonder if what we need is that combined with plugins-as-roles
+
+## 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
+ bug mst (at least) to correct before trying more than the first 2
+ steps. Please knock yourself out on the first two however :)
+
+ - Eliminate actions in MyApp from the main test suite
+ - Uncomment warning in C::C::register_action_methods, add tests it works
+ by mocking out the logging..
+ - Remove MyApp @ISA controller (ask metaclass if it has attributes, and if
+ so you need back compat :/)
+ - Make Catalyst::Context, move the per request stuff in there, handles from
+ main app class to delegate
+ - Make an instance of the app class which is a global variable
+ - Make new instance of the context class, not the app class per-request
+ - Remove the components as class data, move to instance data on the app
+ class (you probably have to do this for _all_ the class data, good luck!)
+ - Make it possible for users to spin up different instances of the app class
+ (with different config etc each)
+ - 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
+
+### Next large steps, planned:
+
+For all components that have been discovered, in whatever way, we create a service:
+ - that's a catalyst component service
+ - which is basically just a constructor injection
+ - except the constructor name is COMPONENT
+ - and we're "implicitly" passing along some constructor args
+ - Lifecycle => Singleton
+
+ - We make a 'components' sub container in the main container.
+ - This gets the ConstructorInjection COMPONENT services, as model_Foo.
+ - Lifecycle of these services is Singleton
+ - This simplifies the code for MyApp->components, as it need only list one sub-container
+
+ - We create a second service (depending on the first one) for ACCEPT_CONTEXT
+ - This has a custom service which calls ACCEPT_CONTEXT when the instance is fetched
+ - Not Singleton lifecycle
+
+ Note - ACCEPT_CONTEXT can be called on app values - if you have a Model::Foo, with an ACCEPT_CONTEXT
+ and you call MyApp->model('Foo') then ACCEPT_CONTEXT gets invoked with a $c of 'MyApp' (this is not\
+ the normal case, but we need to preserve for compat)
+
+### Next steps - less planned:
+
+ - Creating service()-like sugar for component
+
+ - 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
+
+ a) configure additional services in that container
+ - super simple container $default_container => as { more services };
+ class MyApp::Container extends Catalyst::Container {
+ use Bread::Board; # Or our own sugar?
+ method BUILD { container $self => as {
+ service model => ...; # some constructor injection to MyApp::Model or something
+ container Model => as {
+ component Foo => (dependencies => ['/model']); # As per default!
+ component Bar => (dependencies => ['/model/Foo']); # Magic!
+ };
+ # 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
+ } }
+ };
+
+ let's consider the usage patterns we actually want to enable by doing the whole B::B thing
+ what happens if i make the "per-app" service for a component life only for the duration of the request?
+ or be instanciated every time i look up the component?
+ (or scoping it per session, or having a block injection, or something)
+
+ say you override the app service to be per-request
+ now the wrapper for the per-request variant doesn't make sense anymore. does it?
+ because you're only overriding one half of what has been generated automatically
+
+ ah, so you have basically ended up with getting a request scoped thing to be used to construct a request scoped thing, which is pointless? Would/could you not just override the
+ service which is actually getting looked up instead, and make it not depend on the auto-generated per-app scope service, which will then just never be built?
+
+ yes, you could. but then you'd have to be aware of the distinction
+ which is what i hoped to be a barely visible backcompat thing
+ but which i'm afraid it won't be if we go for two actual separate services
+
+ what stops the sugar we give from not just making you specify the lifecycle, and giving you the obvious name / wiring?
+ i.e. everything looks like 'Foo', so you don't have to know COMPONENT/Foo exists
+
+ my hopes of not needing any sugar at all, i guess
+
+ only a couple of new lifecycles to be registered with the container - ??
+
+
+### To polish off / t0m review
+
+ - + $class->container->get_sub_container('model')->make_single_default;
+ + $class->container->get_sub_container('view')->make_single_default;
+
+ get_components_names_types
+
+ locate_components
+
+ +# FIXME - t0m, how do you feel about this name?
+ +# also, do you think I should draw it here, or just return the data structure?
+ +sub get_components_names_types {
+
+ + MyApp->config->{ 'Plugin::ConfigLoader' }->{ substitutions } = {
+
+ +# FIXME - just till I understand how it's supposed to be done
+ +# Made this so that COMPONENT is executed once,
+ +# and ACCEPT_CONTEXT every call.
+ +has instance => (
+ + is => 'rw',
+
+ # This is ok??
+ +my $applevel_config = TestAppContainer->container->resolve(service => 'config')->{applevel_config};
+ +__PACKAGE__->config(applevel_config => 'foo');
- Test app: http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-bug-go_chain/tree/master
- - Certain errors in your application to do with using other code which does
- not exist can cause an 'Unknown error' issue.
+ accept_context_args - where does this come from?
- Test app: http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-bug-unknown-error/tree/master
+### Known issues
-Compatibility warnings to add:
+ - Broken $instance->expand_modules() in setup_components and figure
+ out later how to bring it back
- - $self->config should warn as config should only ever be called as a
- class method.
+ - expand_component_module