# Known Bugs: - Bug ->go or ->visit causes actions which have Args or CaptureArgs called twice when called via ->go or ->visit. Test app: http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-bug-go_chain/tree/master # 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: - Moving setup_components etc into the container - This is so that you can just load the container and get models etc from it, without loading Catalyst. - Allowing people to change component lifecycles - This is done by being able to use an alternate Service class.. I.E. We currently force everything to do Catalyst/IOC/Service/WithAcceptContext.pm, but things without an ACCEPT_CONTEXT could just not bother, and it would be nice to have one that cached the object in request scope (i.e. Catalyst::Component::InstancePerContext) etc. However we need to work out an interface for people to setup / configure this. ### To polish off - Document current methods - + $class->container->get_sub_container('model')->make_single_default; + $class->container->get_sub_container('view')->make_single_default;