Apache::SWIT - mod_perl based application server with integrated testing.

	package MyHandler;
	use base 'Apache::SWIT';

	# overload render routine
	sub swit_render {
		my ($class, $r) = @_;
		return ({ hello => 'world' }, 'my_template.tt');
		# or return { hello => 'world' }; to rely on swit.yaml
		# based generation
	}

	# overload update routine, usually result of POST
	sub swit_update {
		my ($class, $r) = @_;
		# do some work ...
		# and redirect to another page
		return '/redirect/to/some/url';
	}

This is pre-alpha quality software. Please use it on your own risk.

This module serves as yet another mod_perl based application server.

It tries to capture several often occuring paradigms in mod_perl development. It provides user with the tools to bootstrap a new project, write tests easily, etc.

Sends HTTP default headers: session cookie and content type. $r is apache request and $ct is optional content type (defaults to text/html; charset=utf-8.

Dies with first line of $msg using Carp::croak and dumps request $r and @data_to_dump with Data::Dumper into /tmp/swit_<time>.err file.

Maximal size of POST request. Default is 1M. Overload it to return something else.

Entry point for an update handler. Calls $class->swit_update($apr) function with Apache2::Request parameter. The result of swit_update henceforth is called $to is passed down.

If $to is regular string then 302 status is produced with Location equal to $to.

If $to is array reference and first item is a number then the status with $to-[0]> is produced and $to->[1] is returned as response body. $to->[2] may by used as content type.

I.e. [ 200, "Hello", "text/plain" ] will respond with 200 OK status and Hello as a body with text/plain as content type.

The first item can also be INTERNAL magic string. In that case internal redirect to the second array item is produced.

Of $to parameters only $to->[0] is mandatory.

Much needed documentation is non-existant at the moment.

	Boris Sukholitko
	boriss@gmail.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

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