Catalyst Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Catalyst
• Catalyst Application Architecture
• Extensibility
• Reusability
• Flexibility
• Reliability
• Installing Catalyst
• CPAN
• Where to go for Help?
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Creating a Catalyst Application
• Creating the Application Skeleton
• MyApp Directory Structure
• Files in the MyApp Directory
• Files in the lib Directory
• Files in the root Directory
• Files in the script Directory
• Files in the t Directory
• Adding a View
• Using a Template To Render the Page
• Some Technical Details
• Adding a Database
• Installing SQLite
• Creating a Database Schema
• Creating a Database Model for Catalyst
• Using the Model
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Building a Real Application
• Environment Setup
• Database Design
• Understanding the Interface to the Database
• TTSite
• Creating the Index Page
• Creating a "Not Found" Page
• Viewing People
• Basic CRUD
• Forms
• Finishing Up
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Expanding the Application
• Configuration Files
• Configuring the Address Book
• Sessions
• Adding Sessions to the Address Book
• Sessions in the Database

• Using Components from Outside Catalyst
• Searching and Paging
• Authentication and Authorization
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Adding Authentication and Authorization to the Address Book

• Summary

• Chapter 5: Building a More Advanced Application
• The Application
• Background
• Creating the Database
• Populating the Database
• Extracting the Data
• Chained ResultSets
• Custom ResultSets
• Putting the Data on the Web
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Building Your Own Model
• Extending a DBIx::Class Model
• Custom Methods Without Raw SQL
• Calling Database Functions
• Creating a Database Model from Scratch
• Implementing a Filesystem Model
• Tweaking the Model
• Request Context Inside the Model
• Maintainable Models
• Other Components
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Hot Web Topics
• REST
• Getting some REST
• REST Controller
• REST Authentication
• Adding an Entity
• REST Easy
• AJAX
• Getting Started
• Jemplate
• Implementing AJAX
• RSS
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Testing
• Mechanics
• Testing ChatStat
• Testing a Database
• Testing the Web Interface
• Testing the Address Book
• Logging In
• Testing Forms
• Testing JavaScript
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Deployment
• Basics
• PAR Deployment
• Configuration Management
• Configuring a Web Server
• Apache
• FastCGI
• Static Content
• mod_perl
• Performance Considerations
• Development Server and perlbal
• Summary

• Index