Recently, we had to rework a legacy project using Catalyst. We chose HTML::FormFu as our Form engine because we had good experience with it in other projects.

However, we had to face one problem: Forms had to be different for every user. Well, the difference is based on the user's roles, to be precise.

As a rescue and a generic approach, we chose to create a simple HTML::FormFu::Plugin that can get applied to every or some of the forms, just as needed. To get things working, we need to do two things:

• mark certain fields inside the form with the rights we need fo…