Re: [Omaha.pm] Catalyst

[Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net>]

On Oct 21, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Sterling Hanenkamp wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Todd Christopher Hamilton <netarttodd@gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> > 3. Do you use any javascript stuff as well?  I use Dojo and  
> > wondering if  they can have a complimentary relationship.
>
> I tend to prefer jQuery and friends, but Dojo should work fine.  
> Integration of your templates with your JavaScript library is mostly  
> up to you, but is pretty simple to manage. There are some tools for  
> sending back JSON or XML. I've not used it, but I'd look at  
> Miyagawa's Catalyst::View::JSON. I have used Doran's  
> Catalyst::Action::REST module, which takes some setup, but works  
> well if you want a more flexible REST API and supports JSON, XML,  
> and other formats.

Sterling: Very cool! Would you be willing to present something RESTy  
at an upcoming meeting? I'd love to see it!  :)

   http://jays.net/wiki/odlug

Todd: The lastest batch of Catalyst AJAX I did didn't use any Catalyst  
magic at all. As Sterling pointed out, there are dozens of plugins  
where Catalyst becomes aware of all sorts of things.   :)

   http://search.cpan.org/search/?query=catalyst%3A%3Aplugin&mode=all

My thing uses jQuery Tooltip

   http://jquery.bassistance.de/tooltip/demo/

and Catalyst just blindly spews out HTML/JS/XML to make jQuery  
happy.   :)

j