NAME
Mojolicious - The Web In A Box!
SYNOPSIS
# Mojolicious Application
package MyApp;
use base 'Mojolicious';
sub startup {
my $self = shift;
# Routes
my $r = $self->routes;
# Default route
$r->route('/:controller/:action/:id')->to('foo#welcome');
}
# Mojolicious controller
package MyApp::Foo;
use base 'Mojolicious::Controller';
# Say hello
sub welcome {
my $self = shift;
$self->render_text('Hi there!');
}
# Say goodbye from a template (foo/bye.html.ep)
sub bye { shift->render }
DESCRIPTION
Back in the early days of the web there was this wonderful Perl library called CGI, many people only learned Perl because of it. It was simple enough to get started without knowing much about the language and powerful enough to keep you going, learning by doing was much fun. While most of the techniques used are outdated now, the idea behind it is not. Mojolicious is a new attempt at implementing this idea using state of the art technology.
Features
An amazing MVC web framework supporting a simplified single file mode through Mojolicious::Lite.
Very clean and Object Oriented pure Perl API without any hidden magic and no requirements besides Perl 5.8.1.
Full stack HTTP 1.1 and WebSocket client/server implementation with IPv6 and TLS support.
Builtin async IO and prefork web server with epoll, kqueue, hot deployment and UNIX domain socket sharing support, perfect for embedding.
CGI, FastCGI and PSGI support.
Fresh code, based upon years of experience developing Catalyst.
And much more for you to discover!
Simplicity
Web development for humans, making hard things possible and everything fun.
use Mojolicious::Lite;
get '/time' => 'clock';
websocket '/echo' => sub {
my $self = shift;
$self->receive_message(
sub {
my ($self, $message) = @_;
$self->send_message("echo: $message");
}
);
};
get '/:name' => sub {
my $self = shift;
my $name = $self->param('name') || 'Mojo';
$self->render_text("Hello $name!");
};
shagadelic;
__DATA__
@@ clock.html.ep
% my ($second, $minute, $hour) = (localtime(time))[0, 1, 2];
The time is <%= $hour %>:<%= $minute %>:<%= $second %>.
For more user friendly documentation see Mojolicious::Book and Mojolicious::Lite.
Architecture
.---------------------------------------------------------------.
| Fun! |
'---------------------------------------------------------------'
.---------------------------------------------------------------.
| |
| .----------------------------------------------'
| | .--------------------------------------------.
| Application | | Mojolicious::Lite |
| | '--------------------------------------------'
| | .--------------------------------------------.
| | | Mojolicious |
'----------------' '--------------------------------------------'
.---------------------------------------------------------------.
| Mojo |
'---------------------------------------------------------------'
.-------. .-----------. .--------. .------------. .-------------.
| CGI | | FastCGI | | PSGI | | HTTP 1.1 | | WebSocket |
'-------' '-----------' '--------' '------------' '-------------'
ATTRIBUTES
Mojolicious inherits all attributes from Mojo and implements the following new ones.
mode
my $mode = $mojo->mode;
$mojo = $mojo->mode('production');
The operating mode for your application. It defaults to the value of the environment variable MOJO_MODE
or development
. Mojo will name the log file after the current mode and modes other than development
will result in limited log output.
If you want to add per mode logic to your application, you can add a sub to your application named $mode_mode
.
sub development_mode {
my $self = shift;
}
sub production_mode {
my $self = shift;
}
plugins
my $plugins = $mojo->plugins;
$mojo = $mojo->plugins(Mojolicious::Plugins->new);
The plugin loader, by default a Mojolicious::Plugins object. You can usually leave this alone, see Mojolicious::Plugin if you want to write a plugin.
renderer
my $renderer = $mojo->renderer;
$mojo = $mojo->renderer(MojoX::Renderer->new);
Used in your application to render content, by default a MojoX::Renderer object. The two main renderer plugins Mojolicious::Plugin::EpRenderer and Mojolicious::Plugin::EplRenderer contain more specific information.
routes
my $routes = $mojo->routes;
$mojo = $mojo->routes(MojoX::Dispatcher::Routes->new);
The routes dispatcher, by default a MojoX::Dispatcher::Routes object. You use this in your startup method to define the url endpoints for your application.
sub startup {
my $self = shift;
my $r = $self->routes;
$r->route('/:controller/:action')->to('test#welcome');
}
static
my $static = $mojo->static;
$mojo = $mojo->static(MojoX::Dispatcher::Static->new);
For serving static assets from your public
directory, by default a MojoX::Dispatcher::Static object.
types
my $types = $mojo->types;
$mojo = $mojo->types(MojoX::Types->new);
Responsible for tracking the types of content you want to serve in your application, by default a MojoX::Types object. You can easily register new types.
$mojo->types->type(vti => 'help/vampire');
METHODS
Mojolicious inherits all methods from Mojo and implements the following new ones.
new
my $mojo = Mojolicious->new;
Construct a new Mojolicious application. Will automatically detect your home directory and set up logging based on your current operating mode. Also sets up the renderer, static dispatcher and a default set of plugins.
dispatch
$mojo->dispatch($c);
The heart of every Mojolicious application, calls the static and routes dispatchers for every request.
handler
$tx = $mojo->handler($tx);
Sets up the default controller and calls process for every request.
plugin
$mojo->plugin('something');
$mojo->plugin('something', foo => 23);
$mojo->plugin('something', {foo => 23});
Load a plugin.
process
$mojo->process($c);
This method can be overloaded to do logic on a per request basis, by default just calls dispatch. Generally you will use a plugin or controller instead of this, consider it the sledgehammer in your toolbox.
sub process {
my ($self, $c) = @_;
$self->dispatch($c);
}
start
Mojolicious->start;
Mojolicious->start('daemon');
Start the Mojolicious::Commands command line interface for your application.
startup
$mojo->startup;
This is your main hook into the application, it will be called at application startup.
sub startup {
my $self = shift;
}
SUPPORT
Web
http://mojolicious.org
IRC
#mojo on irc.perl.org
Mailing-List
http://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious
DEVELOPMENT
Repository
http://github.com/kraih/mojo
AUTHOR
Sebastian Riedel, sri@cpan.org
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CREDITS
In alphabetical order:
Adam Kennedy
Adriano Ferreira
Alexey Likhatskiy
Anatoly Sharifulin
Andre Vieth
Andreas Koenig
Andy Grundman
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Ask Bjoern Hansen
Audrey Tang
Breno G. de Oliveira
Burak Gursoy
Ch Lamprecht
Christian Hansen
David Davis
Gisle Aas
Glen Hinkle
Graham Barr
James Duncan
Jaroslav Muhin
Jesse Vincent
Kazuhiro Shibuya
Kevin Old
Lars Balker Rasmussen
Leon Brocard
Maik Fischer
Marcus Ramberg
Mark Stosberg
Maksym Komar
Maxim Vuets
Mirko Westermeier
Pascal Gaudette
Pedro Melo
Pierre-Yves Ritschard
Rafal Pocztarski
Randal Schwartz
Robert Hicks
Sergey Zasenko
Shu Cho
Stanis Trendelenburg
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
Uwe Voelker
Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi
Yaroslav Korshak
Yuki Kimoto
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2008-2010, Sebastian Riedel.
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.