NAME

HTML::Mason::Utils - Publically available functions useful outside of Mason

DESCRIPTION

The functions in this module are useful when you need to interface code you have written with Mason.

FUNCTIONS

data_cache_namespace ($comp_id)

Given a component id, this method returns its default Cache::Cache namespace. This can be useful if you want to access the cached data outside of Mason.

With a single component root, the component id is just the component path. With multiple component roots, the component id is key/path, where key is the key corresponding to the root that the component falls under.

cgi_request_args ($cgi, $method)

This function expects to receive a CGI.pm object and the request method (GET, POST, etc). Given these two things, it will return a hash containing all the arguments passed via the CGI request. The keys will be argument names and the values will be either scalars or array references.