Perl Dancer for Python programmers

Dancer (the Effortless Perl Web Framework)

About me ● Sawyer X ● Sysadmin / Perl Ninja ● Israel.pm / Haifa.pm / TelAviv.pm / Rehovot.pm ● I do system, networking, web, applications, etc. ● http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/ ● http://search.cpan.org/~xsawyerx/

Perl web recap 2010 Many frameworks (including micro-frameworks like Dancer)

The big web religions, illustrated

Nutcases? ● Yes, we are insane (but not LISP-insane) ● Insanity is a whole lot of fun! ● Insanity gives us flexibility ● Flexibility gives us cool stuff ● Like Moose and meta-programming ● Like DBIx::Class ● Like Dancer

Flask (Pythonese) from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/", methods=['GET']) def hello(): return "Hello World!" if __name__ == "__main__": app.run()

Dancer (Perlesque) use Dancer; get “/hi” => sub { “Hello, World!” }; dance;

In comparison from flask import Flask use Dancer; app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/", methods=['GET']) get “/” => sub { def hello(): “Hello, World!” return "Hello World!" }; if __name__ == "__main__": app.run() dance;

Dancer treats ● Both read and write, easily! ● Route-based (started as a port of Sinatra) ● PSGI/Plack compliant (PSGI is our WSGI) ● Minimum dependencies ● Any app is also a web server ● CPAN-friendly (<3 CPAN)

Recipe for Dancing ● Take an HTTP method ● Add a path to that ● Mix with a subroutine ● And sprinkle plugins and keywords on top

Dancer route structure get '/path' => sub { … }; post '/path' => sub { … }; put '/path' => sub { … }; del '/path' => sub { … }; options '/path' => sub { … }; any '/path' => sub { … };

Dancer ● Paths can contain variables get '/hello/:entity/' ● Paths can be Regular Expressions get qr{/ (w+) / d{2,3} (.+)? }x

Dancer login example post '/login' => sub { # Validate the username and password if ( params>{user} eq 'bob' && params>{pass} eq 'LetMeIn' ) { session user => params>{user}; redirect params>{path} || '/'; } else { redirect '/login?failed=1'; } };

Templating get '/' => sub { template index => { greeting => 'welcome' } };

More nifty stuff ● headers 'MyXHeader' => 'Value' ● send_file('report.tar.gz') ● set_cookie name => 'value', expires => ( time + 3600 ), domain => 'foo.com' ● status 'not_found' ● to_json, to_yaml, to_xml ● my $file = upload('file_input') ● my $all_uploads = request>uploads

Dancer as Perl philosophy ● Dancer is succinct, efficient and easy to work with ● Dancer is daring (Do you have route caching in Django?) (Websockets in near future!) ● Dancer has a lot of plugins: (engines for sessions, logging, templates) ● Serializers (JSON, YAML, XML) ● Route filters (before, after, before_template)

Dancer::Plugin::REST get '/user/:id.:format' => sub { UserRS>find( params>{id} ); }; # curl http://mywebservice/user/42.json { "id": 42, "name": "John Foo", "email": "john.foo@hopkins.com" } # curl http://mywebservice/user/42.yml id: 42 name: "John Foo" email: "john.foo@hopkins.com"

Dancer::Plugin::SiteMap use Dancer::Plugin::SiteMap; ● You get: /sitemap and /sitemap.xml ● “Yup, it's that simple.”

Dancer::Plugin::Email post '/contact' => sub { email { to => 'a@b.com', subject => 'Test', message => $msg, attach => [ path => 'name' ], } };

Dancer::Plugin::Authorize post '/login' => sub { my $user = params>{'user'}; my $pass = params>{'pass'}; if ( auth( $user, $pass ) ) { if ( auth_asa('guest') ) {...} if ( auth_can('create') ) {...} } };

Dancer::Plugin::Ajax ajax '/check_for_update' => sub { # some ajax code }; ● Pass if X-Request-With not “XMLHttpRequest” ● Disable the layout ● The action built is a POST request

Dancer::Plugin::DBIC ● DBIC (DBIx::Class) – a sophisticated ORM ● Configure the connection in the config file ● Make the ResultSets available in routes

Dancer::Plugin::Database ● Database(s) connection in Dancer get '/widget/view/:id' => sub { my $sth = database>prepare( 'select * from widgets where id = ?' ); $sth>execute( params>{id} ); template display_widget => { widget => $sth>fetchrow_hashref, }; };

In culmination Dancer is beautiful and fun The way programming should be PerlDancer.org search.cpan.org/perldoc?Dancer

Perl Dancer for Python programmers

Perl Dancer for Python programmers

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