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No 'Net For a Bit (But a New Class::CGI Soon)

Ovid on 2007-05-11T13:23:21

I'm moving into my new house today (alas, rented), so I might not have 'net connection for a while. Last night, while the hotel's 'net connection was down ... again ... I started hacking on a much needed change to Class::CGI. The current version I have now delegates to CGI::Simple instead of inheriting from it. It also falls back to CGI if it cannot find CGI::Simple, but you can specify a different class to delegate to, if needed (Apache::Request, anyone?).

This should be the major thing that Class::CGI needs before it's ready for prime-time. Currently, the delegation is global rather than on a per-instance or class basis. This makes things much easier internally. Anyone see a problem with that? CGI scripts could each specify their own delegation class, but under mod_perl or other shared environment, everything must use the same delegation class (presumably Apache::Request, for mod_perl).

Side note. Running the tests while using CGI::Simple.

Class-CGI $ runtests -lQ
All tests successful.
Files=9, Tests=186,  3 wallclock secs ( 1.58 cusr +  0.32 csys =  1.90 CPU)

And running them while using CGI.pm.

Class-CGI $ runtests -lQ
All tests successful.
Files=9, Tests=186,  4 wallclock secs ( 1.98 cusr +  0.41 csys =  2.39 CPU)

Those times are very consistent. CGI is quite a bit slower than CGI::Simple, but then, you knew that, right?

I'll probably be offline for a few days and won't be able to respond to comments.

Damn... I'd forgotten this module existed

Adrian on 2007-05-11T13:35:20

... and have recently reinvented that wheel. Please finish it up soon so I can delete my code and get you to do my maintenance work :-)

CGI::Simple

AndyArmstrong on 2007-05-11T13:45:18

Feel free to poke me if CGI::Simple fails to delight :)

I've done a little bit of maintenance on it since taking it over but it could really do with a more thorough overhaul I think.

CGI::Simple question

sigzero on 2007-05-11T17:46:29

When would you use CGI::Simple over CGI.pm? I was always a little murky about that.

Re:CGI::Simple question

Aristotle on 2007-05-12T05:09:55

Always, unless you need the HTML generation stuff.

Re:CGI::Simple question

sigzero on 2007-05-12T13:17:34

Ah, good to know. I have never used the HTML stuff in CGI.pm as I use either TT of HT for my web work.

Re:CGI::Simple question

Aristotle on 2007-05-12T14:14:12

Well, other than omitting the HTML stuff, CGI::Simple is 100% API-compatible with CGI.pm (and passes all of CGI.pm’s own relevant tests). You can use them interchangably. The only difference you’ll see is that CGI::Simple is faster.