byterock

Well not really but it did save me a good deal of time. I have been slowly putting together a small stand alone web app with Mojolicious to trunly demonstate what I have been doing with all these Moose posts.

Well I was just setting up a controller (using Mojolicious::Lite here to save space) and was creating my first form and like I many I have created before I started with a validator; something like this

app->validator->add_check(range => sub {
  my ($validation, $name, $value, $min, $max) = @_;
  return $value < $min || $value > $max;
});

post '/create' => sub {

  my $self = shift;

    my $validation = $self->validation;

    $validation->required('strength')->size(1, 2)->range (3,18);

    $validation->required('intelligence')->size(1, 2)->range (3,18);

and then I though 'I am just recreating all that validation that I already have in my 'RPG::ADD::Character' class' So why not let Moose validate itself?

Well before I ran out and wrote a bunch of validation code based on my Moose Class I went to Map of Cpan and spent a few mins looking to see if someone else has done the coding for me.

Well sure enough somebody has (well there goes weeks worth of blog posts) and it can be found here Mojolicious::Plugin::ValidateMoose. So after a few second installing I gave it a try.

So with a HTLM page that looks like this

I changed my app a little to the following

plugin 'Mojolicious::Plugin::ValidateMoose';

post '/create' => sub {

  my $self = shift;

  use RPG::ADD::Character;

  my $class = $self->validate_moose('RPG::ADD::Character');

  

  if ($self->stash('invalid_form_elements')){

  	$self->render('index');

  }  

  else {

	$self->stash(me => $class);

	$self->render('character');

  }

};

changed my inputs a little to fail and my original index form to display the error and got this

So great.

Whats nice is if the object does not fail then you get a instace of the object you can throw into the stash and play with on a page. One thing I really like is this plugin works for all the inputs to the class not just the fist fail like you would get with a simple '->new()'. All of the fails are loading into a hash so I can do a many are there are on the class. For example if I submit a blank form I get this

So two, or is that three birds, with one stone. Well going to keep this one in my Playbook