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• It's a different way, not a wrong way :) (Score:2)

  by brian_d_foy (44) <brian.d.foy@gmail.com> on 2007.10.14 11:42 (#58335) Homepage Journal

  You don't have to like CGIP, and that's fine. This sounds like it might be in response to my last journal post. I wasn't trying to push CGIP on anyone, and really did mean it when I said that anyone who tells you what to use before they know your problem isn't worth listening to. I've recommended Catalyst to plenty of our clients, and usually do so first, saying "If this doesn't work for you, then we'll talk about CGIP". It certainly isn't something I recommend people start with if something else works better for them.
  
  You like URI based dispatching, but I hate that. Even then, it's not hard to do in CGIP. It's not like URIs are magic. Once the application gets control, they are just input data like anything else. CGIP gets rid of the idea of run states and lets you switch courses at several points. You're decoupled from the starting point.
  
  I'm not sure what you mean about the poor separation of concerns. In CGIP you can build up the data anyway that you like as you go along. The View gets access to it all and can display it anyway that you like, including hooking back into the Model directly. It's very decoupled. Although CGIP uses Template by default, one of our clients replaced that with XML/XSLT without too much pain.
  
  It sounds like you don't like that you had to make the decisions and do the work to make CGIP do exactly what you wanted. That is, however, the entire point. You might not *like* it, but don't confuse that with valid technical arguments. :)
  
  

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    It started as a reply to your post, yes. Then I realised it was beside the issue. Anyway, it is why I wouldn’t pick CGIP again.

    It’s not like URIs are magic.

    They’re not, but CGIP scatters the responsibility for dispatch across all of your classes by way of the respond method, and it will not invoke a method other than respond in the course of dispatch, nor does it provide a built-in mechanism of passing parameters to it. So you have to rig up the entire machinery to parse the URI and r
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by brian_d_foy (44)

      I'm not sure what you were doing with CGIP and URL dispatch, but I never had to scatter them across anything. It sounds like you were doing something the hard way.