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NAME
Dancer2::Manual::Migration - Migrating from Dancer to Dancer2
VERSION
version 0.400000
Migration from Dancer 1 to Dancer2
This document covers some changes that users will need to be aware of while upgrading from Dancer (version 1) to Dancer2.
Launcher script
The default launcher script bin/app.pl in Dancer looked like this:
#!/usr/bin/env perl use Dancer; use MyApp; dance;
In Dancer2 it is available as bin/app.psgi and looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use FindBin; use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib"; use MyApp; MyApp->to_app;
So you need to remove the
use Dancer;
part, replace thedance;
command byMyApp->to_app;
(where MyApp is the name of your application), and add the following lines:use strict; use warnings; use FindBin; use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
There is a Dancer Advent Calendar article covering the
to_app
keyword and its usage.Configuration
You specify a different location to the directory used for serving static (public) content by setting the
public_dir
option. In that case, you have to setstatic_handler
option also.Apps
1. In Dancer2, each module is a separate application with its own namespace and variables. You can set the application name in each of your Dancer2 application modules. Different modules can be tied into the same app by setting the application name to the same value.
For example, to set the appname directive explicitly:
MyApp
:package MyApp; use Dancer2; use MyApp::Admin hook before => sub { var db => 'Users'; }; get '/' => sub {...}; 1;
MyApp::Admin
:package MyApp::Admin; use Dancer2 appname => 'MyApp'; # use a lexical prefix so we don't override it globally prefix '/admin' => sub { get '/' => sub {...}; }; 1;
Without the appname directive,
MyApp::Admin
would not have access to variabledb
. In fact, when accessing/admin
, the before hook would not be executed.See Dancer2::Cookbook for details.
2. To speed up an app in Dancer2, install the recommended modules listed in the "Performance Improvements" in Dancer2::Manual::Deployment section.
Request
The request object (Dancer2::Core::Request) is now deferring much of its code to Plack::Request to be consistent with the known interface to PSGI requests.
Currently the following attributes pass directly to Plack::Request:
address
,remote_host
,protocol
,port
,method
,user
,request_uri
,script_name
,content_length
,content_type
,content_encoding
,referer
, anduser_agent
.If previous attributes returned undef for no value beforehand, they will return whatever Plack::Request defines now, which just might be an empty list.
For example:
my %data = ( referer => request->referer, user_agent => request->user_agent, );
should be replaced by:
my %data = ( referer => request->referer || '', user_agent => request->user_agent || '', );
Plugins: plugin_setting
plugin_setting
returns the configuration of the plugin. It can only be called inregister
oron_plugin_import
.Routes
Dancer2 requires all routes defined via a string to begin with a leading slash
/
.For example:
get '0' => sub { return "not gonna fly"; };
would return an error. The correct way to write this would be to use
get '/0'
Route parameters
The
params
keyword which provides merged parameters used to allow body parameters to override route parameters. Now route parameters take precedence over query parameters and body parameters.We have introduced
route_parameters
to retrieve parameter values from the route matching. Please refer to Dancer2::Manual for more information.Tests
Dancer2 recommends the use of Plack::Test.
For example:
use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests => 2; use Plack::Test; use HTTP::Request::Common; { package App::Test; # or whatever you want to call it get '/' => sub { template 'index' }; } my $test = Plack::Test->create( App::Test->to_app ); my $res = $test->request( GET '/' ); ok( $res->is_success, '[GET /] Successful' ); like( $res->content, qr{<title>Test2</title>}, 'Correct title' );
Other modules that could be used for testing are:
Logs
The
logger_format
in the Logger role (Dancer2::Core::Role::Logger) is nowlog_format
.read_logs
can no longer be used, as with Dancer2::Test. Instead, Dancer2::Logger::Capture could be used for testing, to capture all logs to an object.For example:
use strict; use warnings; use Test::More import => ['!pass']; use Plack::Test; use HTTP::Request::Common; use Ref::Util qw<is_coderef>; { package App; use Dancer2; set log => 'debug'; set logger => 'capture'; get '/' => sub { debug 'this is my debug message'; return 1; }; } my $app = Dancer2->psgi_app; ok( is_coderef($app), 'Got app' ); test_psgi $app, sub { my $cb = shift; my $res = $cb->( GET '/' ); is $res->code, 200; my $trap = App->dancer_app->logger_engine->trapper; is_deeply $trap->read, [ { level => 'debug', message => 'this is my debug message' } ]; };
Exports: Tags
The following tags are not needed in Dancer2:
use Dancer2 qw(:syntax); use Dancer2 qw(:tests); use Dancer2 qw(:script);
The
plackup
command should be used instead. It provides a development server and reads the configuration options in your command line utilities.Engines
Engines receive a logging callback
Engines now receive a logging callback named
log_cb
. Engines can use it to log anything in run-time, without having to worry about what logging engine is used.This is provided as a callback because the logger might be changed in run-time and we want engines to be able to always reach the current one without having a reference back to the core application object.
The logger engine doesn't have the attribute since it is the logger itself.
Engines handle encoding consistently
All engines are now expected to handle encoding on their own. User code is expected to be in internal Perl representation.
Therefore, all serializers, for example, should deserialize to the Perl representation. Templates, in turn, encode to UTF-8 if requested by the user, or by default.
One side-effect of this is that
from_yaml
will call YAML'sLoad
function with decoded input.
Templating engine changes
Whereas in Dancer1, the following were equivalent for Template::Toolkit:
template 'foo/bar' template '/foo/bar'
In Dancer2, when using Dancer2::Template::TemplateToolkit, the version with the leading slash will try to locate
/foo/bar
relative to your filesystem root, not relative to your Dancer application directory.The Dancer2::Template::Simple engine is unchanged in this respect.
Whereas in Dancer1, template engines have the methods:
$template_engine->view('foo.tt') $template_engine->view_exists('foo.tt')
In Dancer2, you should instead write:
$template_engine->view_pathname('foo.tt') $template_engine->pathname_exists($full_path)
You may not need these unless you are writing a templating engine.
Serializers
You no longer need to implement the
loaded
method. It is simply unnecessary.Sessions
Now the Simple session engine is turned on by default, unless you specify a different one.
Configuration
public_dir
You cannot set the public directory with
setting
now. Instead you will need to callconfig
:# before setting( 'public_dir', 'new_path/' ); # after config->{'public_dir'} = 'new_path';
warnings
The
warnings
configuration option, along with the environment variableDANCER_WARNINGS
, have been removed and have no effect whatsoever.They were added when someone requested to be able to load Dancer without the warnings pragma, which it adds, just like Moose, Moo, and other modules provide.
If you want this to happen now (which you probably shouldn't be doing), you can always control it lexically:
use Dancer2; no warnings;
You can also use Dancer2 within a narrower scope:
{ use Dancer2 } use strict; # warnings are not turned on
However, having warnings turned it is very recommended.
server_tokens
The configuration
server_tokens
has been introduced in the reverse (but more sensible, and Plack-compatible) form asno_server_tokens
.DANCER_SERVER_TOKENS
changed toDANCER_NO_SERVER_TOKENS
.engines
If you want to use Template::Toolkit instead of the built-in simple templating engine you used to enable the following line in the config.yml file.
template: "template_toolkit"
That was enough to get started. The start_tag and end_tag it used were the same as in the simple template <% and %> respectively.
If you wanted to further customize the Template::Toolkit you could also enable or add the following:
engines: template_toolkit: encoding: 'utf8' start_tag: '[%' end_tag: '%]'
In Dancer 2 you can also enable Template::Toolkit with the same configuration option:
template: "template_toolkit"
But the default start_tag and end_tag are now [% and %], so if you used the default in Dancer 1 now you will have to explicitly change the start_tag and end_tag values. The configuration also got an extra level of depth. Under the
engine
key there is atemplate
key and thetemplate_toolkit
key comes below that. As in this example:engines: template: template_toolkit: start_tag: '<%' end_tag: '%>'
In a nutshell, if you used to have
template: "template_toolkit"
You need to replace it with
template: "template_toolkit" engines: template: template_toolkit: start_tag: '<%' end_tag: '%>'
Session engine
The session engine is configured in the
engine
section.session_name
changed tocookie_name
.session_domain
changed tocookie_domain
.session_expires
changed tocookie_duration
.session_secure
changed tois_secure
.session_is_http_only
changed tois_http_only
.
Dancer2 also adds two attributes for session:
cookie_path
The path of the cookie to create for storing the session key. Defaults to "/".session_duration
Duration in seconds before sessions should expire, regardless of cookie expiration. If set, then SessionFactories should use this to enforce a limit on session validity.
See Dancer2::Core::Role::SessionFactory for more detailed documentation for these options, or the particular session engine for other supported options.
session: Simple engines: session: Simple: cookie_name: dance.set cookie_duration: '24 hours' is_secure: 1 is_http_only: 1
Plack Middleware
In Dancer1 you could set up Plack Middleware using a
plack_middlewares
key in yourconfig.yml
file. Under Dancer2 you will instead need to invoke middleware using Plack::Builder, as demonstrated in Dancer2::Manual::Deployment.Keywords
Calling Keywords Explicitly
In Dancer1, keywords could be imported individually into a package:
package MyApp; use Dancer qw< get post params session >; get '/foo' { ... };
Any keywords you did't export could be called explicitly:
package MyApp; use Dancer qw< get post params session >; use List::Util qw< any >; Dancer::any sub { ... };
Dancer2's DSL is implemented differently. Keywords only exist in the namespace of the package which
use
s Dancer2, i.e. there is noDancer2::any
, only e.g.MyApp::any
.If you only want individual keywords, you can write a shim as follows:
package MyApp::DSL; use Dancer2 appname => 'MyApp'; use Exporter qw< import >; our @EXPORT = qw< get post ... >
Then in other packages:
package MyApp; use MyApp::DSL qw< get post >; MyApp::DSL::any sub { ... };
appdir
This keyword does not exist in Dancer2. However, the same information can be found in
config->{'appdir'}
.load
This keyword is no longer required. Dancer2 loads the environment automatically and will not reload any other environment when called with load. (It's a good thing.)
param_array
This keyword doesn't exist in Dancer2.
session
In Dancer a session was created and a cookie was sent just by rendering a page using the
template
function. In Dancer2 one needs to actually set a value in a session object using thesession
function in order to create the session and send the cookie.The session keyword has multiple states:
No arguments
Without any arguments, the session keyword returns a Dancer2::Core::Session object, which has methods for read, write, and delete.
my $session = session; $session->read($key); $session->write( $key => $value ); $session->delete($key);
Single argument (key)
If a single argument is provided, it is treated as the key, and it will retrieve the value for it.
my $value = session $key;
Two arguments (key, value)
If two arguments are provided, they are treated as a key and a value, in which case the session will assign the value to the key.
session $key => $value;
Two arguments (key, undef)
If two arguments are provided, but the second is undef, the key will be deleted from the session.
session $key => undef;
In Dancer 1 it wasn't possible to delete a key, but in Dancer2 we can finally delete:
# these two are equivalent session $key => undef; my $session = session; $session->delete($key);
You can retrieve the whole session hash with the
data
method:$session->data;
To destroy a session, instead of writing:
session->destroy
In Dancer2, we write:
app->destroy_session if app->has_session
If you make changes to the session in an
after
hook, your changes will not be written to storage, because writing sessions to storage also takes place in an (earlier)after
hook.AUTHOR
Dancer Core Developers
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2022 by Alexis Sukrieh.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
Module Install Instructions
To install Dancer2, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm Dancer2
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Dancer2
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.