[cgi-prototype-users] Re: $this_page and $next_page lack access to $self...

[Terrence B. <ba...@me...>]

Totally bogus bug report. Ignore. I don't know how I futzed up
CGIP::PathInfo so bad as to wreck the 5-level inheritance chain, but
everything went away, when I replaced my hackery with Aristotle's
original file.

> I have most of a guestbook program implemented using
> CGI::Prototype::PathInfo. You can play around with everything but the
> "view source for this page" button here:
>
>       http://www.metaperl.org/Guestbook
>
> I used Rose::DB::Object for the database stuff, HTML::Seamstress for
> "templating" and CGI::Protoytpe::Pathinfo as my controller.
>
> So anyway, when I got ready to do the "view source for this page", I
> needed access to resource_type for the current request but $this_page
> and $next_page (in CGPI::activate()) are not given these values from
> the self that starts activate().
>
> $this_page and $that_page also lack access to $self->CGI as a result.
>
> What this means is that I cannot rewrite the "View source for this
> page" to be $self->resource_type in this module:
>
>    http://www.metaperl.org/Guestbook/App/welcome.pm
>
> Of course, this is perplexing given that Guestbook::App::welcome
> inherits from Guestbook::App which inherits from
> CGI::Prototype::PathInfo and CGIP::PathInfo does reflect and add the
> resource->type slot and have a CGI slot with data from the initial
> resource->request.
>
> So, given that my render methods in $this_page or $next_page could
> take advantage of such a method, should there be some way of them
> being granted this info?
>
> -- 
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> 	   by deleting something, I'm adding functionality.
>
>
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