NAME

EntityModel::Web - website support for EntityModel

VERSION

version 0.004

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Support for EntityModel-backed websites. Currently an early preview release, so if you're looking for a good, production-quality web framework try something from the <L/SEE ALSO> list.

Accepts a definition for site + page hierarchy, and applies handlers as required to convert incoming requests into outgoing responses.

The following classes provide most of the key functionality:

• EntityModel::Web::Request - abstraction for an incoming HTTP/HTTPS request, may be subclassed by the appropriate server layer.

• EntityModel::Web::Response - abstraction for outgoing HTTP/HTTPS response

• EntityModel::Web::Site - website definition

• EntityModel::Web::Page - page definition, specfiying the handlers, templates, data and URL(s) for a specific page.

• EntityModel::Web::Context - active request handler, includes everything appropriate for a single HTTP request.

• EntityModel::Web::Authorization - support for authorization on a single request.

• EntityModel::Web::Authentication - support for request authentication.

• EntityModel::Web::Session - store and retrieve data between requests for a user session

Definitions are stored under the web key as a list of sites:

 web: [
  host: something.com
  page: [
   name: 'Index'
   path: ''
   pathtype: string
   title: 'Index page'
  ]
 ]

METHODS

register

Registers this module as a plugin with the EntityModel main classes.

page_from_uri

SEE ALSO

There are plenty of other Perl web frameworks out there, here's a partial list:

• Catalyst - great for large projects, see also the website at http://www.catalystframework.org/

• Mojolicious - see http://www.mojolicious.org/

• Dancer - see http://www.perldancer.org/

• WebGUI - see http://www.webgui.org/

• Labyrinth - website available here http://labyrinth.missbarbell.co.uk/ although CPAN/git repo were more up to date as of June 2011

• Titanium - apparently the successor to CGI::Application

• Web::Simple

• Jifty

• Continuity

• SweetPea

• MayPole

AUTHOR

Tom Molesworth <cpan@entitymodel.com>

LICENSE

Copyright Tom Molesworth 2009-2011. Licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.