1 package SL::DB::Helper::Presenter;
6 # lightweight: 0: class, 1: object
7 bless [ $_[1], $_[2] ], $_[0];
13 my ($self, @args) = @_;
15 my $method = $AUTOLOAD;
18 return if $method eq 'DESTROY';
20 if (my $sub = $self->[0]->can($method)) {
21 return $sub->($self->[1], @args);
33 SL::DB::Helper::Presenter - proxy class to allow models to access presenters
37 # assuming SL::Presenter::Part exists
38 # and contains a sub link_to($class, $object) {}
39 SL::DB::Part->new(%args)->presenter->link_to
43 When coding controllers one often encounters objects that are not crucial to
44 the current task, but must be presented in some form to the user. Instead of
45 recreating that all the time the C<SL::Presenter> namepace was introduced to
48 Unfortunately the Presenter code is designed to be stateless and thus acts _on_
49 objects, but can't be instanced or wrapped. The early band-aid to that was to
50 export all sub-presenter calls into the main presenter namespace. Fixing it
51 would have meant accessing presenter functions like this:
53 SL::Presenter::Object->method($object, %additional_args)
55 which is extremely inconvenient.
57 This glue code allows C<SL::DB::Object> instances to access routines in their
58 presenter without additional boilerplate. C<SL::DB::Object> contains a
59 C<presenter> call for all objects, which will return an instance of this proxy
60 class. All calls on this will then be forwarded to the appropriate presenter.
62 =head1 INTERNAL STRUCTURE
64 The created proxy objects are lightweight blessed arrayrefs instead of the
65 usual blessed hashrefs. They only store two elements:
69 =item * The presenter class
71 =item * The invocing object
75 Further delegation is done with C<AUTOLOAD>.
83 Sven Schöling E<lt>s.schoeling@linet-services.deE<gt>