Changes for version 5.90008 (TRIAL RELEASE)
- New features and refactoring:
- Much of the Catalyst::Engine code has been moved into Catalyst::Request and Catalyst::Response, to be able to better support asynchronous web servers such as Twiggy, by making the application engine more reenterant.
- This change is as a prequel to full asynchronous support inside Catalyst for AnyEvent and IO::Async backends, which allow highly scaleable streaming (for applications such as multi-part XML HTTPRequests, and Websockets).
- Much of the Catalyst::Engine code has been moved into Catalyst::Request and Catalyst::Response, to be able to better support asynchronous web servers such as Twiggy, by making the application engine more reenterant.
- Deprecations:
- This means that the $c->engine->env method to access the PSGI environment is now deprecated. The accessor for the PSGI env is now on Catalyst::Request as per applications which were using Catalyst::Engine::PSGI
- Catalyst::Engine::PSGI is now considered fully deprecated.
- The private _dump method in Catalyst::Log is now deprecated. The dumper is not pluggable and which dumper to use should be a user choice. Using an imported Dump() or Dumper() function is less typing than $c->log->_dump and as this method is unused anywhere else in Catalyst, it has been scheduled for removal as a cleanup. Calling this method will now emit a stack trace on first call (but not on subsequent calls).
- This means that the $c->engine->env method to access the PSGI environment is now deprecated. The accessor for the PSGI env is now on Catalyst::Request as per applications which were using Catalyst::Engine::PSGI
- Back compatibility fixes:
- Applications still using Catalyst::Engine::PSGI as they rely on $c->request->env - this is now the provided (and recommended) way of accessing the raw PSGI environment.
- Tests:
- Spurious warnings have been removed from the test suite
- Documentation:
- Fix the display of PROJECT FOUNDER and CONTRIBUTORS sections in the documentation. These were erroneously being emitted when the Pod was converted to HTML for search.cpan.org
- Fix documentation for the build_psgi_app app method. Previously the documentation advised that it provided the psgi app already wrapped in default middleware. This is not the case - it is the raw app psgi
Documentation
Overview of changes between versions of Catalyst
How Catalyst and PSGI work together
Instructions for upgrading to the latest Catalyst
Bootstrap a Catalyst application
Modules
The Elegant MVC Web Application Framework
Catalyst Action
Chain of Catalyst Actions
Catalyst Action Container
Deprecated base class
Class data accessors
Catalyst Component Base Class
Moose Role for components which capture the application context.
Moose Role for components which need to close over the $ctx, without leaking
Catalyst Controller base class
DispatchType Base Class
Path Part DispatchType
Default DispatchType
Index DispatchType
Path DispatchType
Regex DispatchType
The Catalyst Dispatcher
The Catalyst Engine
The Catalyst Engine Loader
Catalyst Exception Class
Basic Catalyst Exception Role
Exception for redispatching using $ctx->detach()
Exception for redispatching using $ctx->go()
Role defining the interface for Catalyst exceptions
Catalyst Log Class
Catalyst Model base class
provides information about the current client request
handles file upload requests
stores output responding to the current client request
The Catalyst Framework Runtime
The CGI Catalyst Script
Create a new Catalyst Component
The FastCGI Catalyst Script
Catalyst test server
Test Catalyst application on the command line
Common functionality for Catalyst scripts.
The Catalyst Framework script runner
Catalyst Timing Statistics Class
Test Catalyst Applications
The Catalyst Utils
Catalyst View base class
Provides
in lib/Catalyst/Exception.pm