[cgiapp] Multiple run modes

[David Baxter]

Hi Mike,

My preferred way is to simply call the view runmode after the update has 
completed. That way you can pass variable or parameters back to the view 
to prompt a message to be displayed.

e.g.

sub update {
    my $self = shift;
    # update the record
    ...
    # set a message to be displayed in the view runmode
    my $message = "The $id record was successfully updated.";
    return $self->view($message);
}

Regards,

David

Mike Tonks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at CGI::Application prior to use, and one thing is unclear to me.
>
> I'll outline a little senario to demonstrate the question:
>
> I have a simple app with four run modes - list, view, edit & update
>
> list does what it say on the tin - lists records in a data table
>
> view ditto, displays a single record
>
> edit displays a form to edit (or add) a record
>
> update sends the posted data to the database
>
>
> In my example, I would like the update run mode to then call the view
> run mode, rather then simply display a rather useless 'update
> complete' message.
>
> Is there a good way to do this with CA?  I  suppose a simple option is
> to simply have update() call view() and return the results, but I
> wondered if there was a preferred solution to this?
>
> Another thought that occurred from scanning the docs would be to put
> the update function in prerun, but this seems wrong somehow.
>
> Thanks for any assistance,
>
> mike
>
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