[Openinteract-help] Using SPOPS data

[Steve S. <ste...@co...>]

So I've gotten further.  I'm building a documentation class for
docs. we have outside of OI, using the system_doc package as a
model.  So far, so good.  I have a design question:  One part of
this package will be a set of matching rules that will categorize
our packages.  This can be done with an array of hashes in Perl.
I think it makes sense to define those rules as SPOPS data for my
package.  Once I've done that, I assume that there's nothing bad
about either handing all that back to the template, or having my
handler use it directly?   The reason I ask is that all examples
seem to hand it up to the template.  I have at least one method in
my handler where it seems to make sense to fetch_group, then
directly (in the handler method) iterate and filter to pare down
what I return to the template.

Is there any downside to this?  Anything that goes against good
design?

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Steve Sapovits  ste...@co...