Plack::Component.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2010-05-04 (ubuntu - 24/10/10)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

Plack::Component - Base class for PSGI endpoints

SYNOPSIS

   package Plack::App::Foo;
   use parent qw( Plack::Component );
 
   sub call {
       my($self, $env) = @_;
       # Do something with $env
 
       my $res = ...; # create a response ...
 
       # return the response
       return $res;
   }
 
 

DESCRIPTION

Plack::Component is the base class shared between Plack::Middleware and Plack::App::* modules. If you are writing middleware, you should inherit from Plack::Middleware, but if you are writing a Plack::App::* you should inherit from this directly.

REQUIRED METHOD

call ($env)
You are expected to implement a "call" method in your component. This is where all the work gets done. It receives the PSGI $env hash-ref as an argument and is expected to return a proper PSGI response value.

METHODS

new (%opts | \%opts)
The constructor accepts either a hash or a hash-ref and uses that to create the instance with. It will call no other methods and simply return the instance that is created.
prepare_app
This method is called by "to_app" and is meant as a hook to be used to prepare your component before it is packaged as a PSGI $app.
to_app
This is the method used in several parts of the Plack infrastructure to convert your component into a PSGI $app. You should not ever need to override this method, it is recommended to use "prepare_app" and "call" instead.

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY

The Plack::Middleware module used to inherit from Class::Accessor::Fast, which has been removed in favor of the Plack::Util::Accessor module. When developing new components it is recommended to use Plack::Util::Accessor like so:
   use Plack::Util::Accessor qw( foo bar baz );
 
 

However, in order to keep backwards compatibility this module provides a "mk_accessors" method similar to Class::Accessor::Fast. New code should not use this and use Plack::Util::Accessor instead.

SEE ALSO

Plack Plack::Builder Plack::Middleware