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DBIx::Class, Catalyst, CRUD, AJAX (and other buzzwords) 3 Comments More | Login | Reply /

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  • InstantCRUD (Score:1)

    by zby (4817) on 2008.09.20 4:24 (#65044) Homepage
    InstantCRUD is another scaffolding package (just like Gantry above). It is now very outdated - but I have a new version of it and I am just waiting for a new release of DBIC (since unfortunately the more advanced features rely on some bug fixes). I try to make it lightweight - by offloading the work to more general purpose libraries. There is now really a multitude of CRUD packages - do you see any possibility to collaborate? Maybe by establishing some interfaces? Using common base modules? One thing that I've developed for Instant is a ResultSet base class that makes it much easier to edit a structure build of many records in one form - this is something quite universal that should be usable in many other framework - what do you think?
    • I think this is a great suggestion!

      Most of my effort on this module has been on the intelligence in the user interface, so the guts are certainly not very pretty nor elegant. But they work.

      At some point it will need refactoring, and there are a few good candidates for generic components. For example Metadata.pm which (heavily) introspects the DBIx::Class schema, and also AJAX.pm which parses web forms and performs DBIx::Class insert/updates. If these two were factored out and had standardized output/inp

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