Catalyst::Manual::Plugins - Catalyst Plugins (and Components)
This section lists the some of the plugins and components that are available to extend the runtime functionality of Catalyst. Most plugins are not distributed with Catalyst but should be available from CPAN. They typically require additional modules from CPAN.
This list may well be outdated by the time you read this and some plugins may be deprecated or now part of core Catalyst. Be sure to check the Catalyst::Plugin namespace for additional plugins and consult the mailing list ( http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/Support ) for advice on the current status or preferred use of your chosen plugin/framework.
Provides Account Auto-Discovery for Catalyst.
Implements a potent meme about how easily we can read scrambled text if the first and last letters remain constant. Operates on text/plain and text/html served by your Catalyst application.
Allows you to dispatch AtomPP methods.
A plugin that implements the necessary bits to make it easy to build an Atom API server for any Catalyst-based application.
An infrastructure plugin for the Catalyst authentication framework. Now the recommended way to do any form of Authentication.
the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Credential::Atom manpage is a plugin which implements WSSE and Basic authentication for Catalyst applications using the Catalyst::Plugin::AtomServer manpage
Provides authentication via Flickr, using its API.
Implements HTTP Basic authentication for Catalyst.
Takes a username (or userid) and a password, and tries various methods of comparing a password based on what the chosen store's user objects support. Part of the Authentication Framework the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication manpage.
Integrates the Authen::TypeKey manpage with the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication manpage.
the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::OpenID manpage is a plugin that implements support for OpenID authentication. For more information on OpenID, take a look at http://www.openid.net/.
The core authentication store documentation.
Does authentication and authorization against a the DBIx::Class manpage or the Class::DBI manpage model.
Uses the Authen::Htpasswd manpage to let your application use .htpasswd files for its
authentication storage.
Authenticates users using an LDAP server.
Lets you create a very quick and dirty user database in your application's config hash. Great for getting up and running quickly.
An easy authentication user object based on hashes. See the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Store::Minimal manpage for more info.
This module provides Access Control List style path protection, with arbitrary rules for Catalyst applications. It operates only on the Catalyst private namespace, at least at the moment.
the Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::Roles manpage provides role based authorization for Catalyst based on the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication manpage.
Extends the Catalyst::Request manpage by adding the capability of browser detection. It returns an instance of the HTTP::BrowserDetect manpage, which lets you get information from the client's user agent.
the Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::FastMmap manpage, the Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::FileCache manpage, the Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::BerkeleyDB manpage, and the Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::Memcached manpage all provide a cache method enabling easy access to a shared cache.
Provides a standard method for loading config files. Support exists for various formats. See the Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader::INI manpage, the Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader::JSON manpage, the Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader::Perl manpage, the Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader::XML manpage, and the Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader::YAML manpage
Creates a sane, standard end method for your application.
Sends email with the Email::Send manpage and the Email::MIME::Creator manpage.
A plugin based on HTML::FillInForm, which describes itself as a module
to automatically insert data from a previous HTML form into the HTML input,
textarea, radio buttons, checkboxes, and select tags. HTML::FillInForm
is a subclass of HTML::Parser and uses it to parse the HTML and insert
the values into the form tags.
A form validator plugin that uses the Data::FormValidator manpage to validate and set up form data from your request parameters. It's a quite thin wrapper around that module, so most of the relevant information can be found there.
Allows you to retrieve various kinds of geographical information. You can retrieve the country or code from the current user, from a given IP address, or from a given hostname.
An internationalization plugin for Catalyst. Supports mo/po files
and Maketext classes under your application's I18N namespace.
Provides the ability to register AOP-like callbacks to specific Engine events. Subclasses the Class::Publisher manpage.
Adjusts the way that parameters operate, causing them to appear in the same order they were submitted by the browser. This can be useful for creating things such as email forms.
Helps improve the performance of slow or frequently accessed pages by caching the entire output of your page. Subsequent requests to the page will receive the page very quickly from cache.
A plugin for pluggable Catalyst applications.
A plugin for the Prototype JavaScript library. This Plugin allows you to easily implement AJAX functionality without actually knowing Javascript.
Use this if you would like to force visitors to access certain pages using only SSL mode. An attempt to access the page in non-SSL mode will receive a redirect into SSL mode. Useful for login pages, shopping carts, user registration forms, and other sensitive data.
The the Catalyst::Plugin::Session manpage series of modules provide an easy way to include session handling in an application. You can choose from several different backend storage methods and combine that with your choice of client-side storage methods.
Allows your controller class to dispatch SRU actions (explain, scan,
and searchRetrieve) from its own class.
the Catalyst::Plugin::Static manpage is a plugin to serve static files from
$c->config->{root}. Intended chiefly for development
purposes.
Serves static files in your application without requiring a single line of code. This plugin is now included in the core Catalyst distribution.
A plugin to allow subrequests to actions to be made within Catalyst. Nice for portal software and such.
An interface to the the HTML::SuperForm manpage module, enabling easy HTML form creation.
A persistent Textile processor for Catalyst that uses Text::Textile, a
Perl-based implementation of Dean Allen's Textile syntax. Textile is
shorthand for doing common formatting tasks (see http://textism.com).
Provides a Unicode-aware Catalyst. On request, it decodes all params from UTF-8 octets into a sequence of logical characters. On response, it encodes the body into UTF-8 octets.
Allows your Controller class to dispatch XMLRPC methods from its own class.
Lets you mark lexical variables with a Stashed attribute, automatically
passing them to the stash.
The Class::DBI (CDBI) model class. It is built on top of
Class::DBI::Loader, which automates the definition of Class::DBI
sub-classes by scanning the underlying table schemas, setting up columns
and primary keys.
A neutral interface to the Class::DBI module which does not attempt
to automate table setup. It allows the user to manually set up
Class::DBI classes, either by doing so within the Catalyst model
classes themselves, or by inheriting from existing Class::DBI
classes.
A the DBIx::Class manpage model class that can use either an explicit the DBIx::Class::Schema manpage or one automatically loaded from your database via the DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader manpage.
A model class for the Plucene search engine.
A model class for the Xapian search engine.
A view component for rendering pages with the HTML::Template manpage.
A view component for rendering pages with the HTML::Mason manpage.
A view component for rendering pages using PSP, a Perl extension implementing a JSP-like templating system. See the Text::PSP manpage.
A view component for rendering pages using Petal, the Perl Template Attribute Language, an XML-based templating system. See Petal.
A view component for rendering pages with Template Toolkit. See the Template::Manual manpage.
Replaced by the Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema manpage.
Replaced by the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Credential::HTTP manpage.
Replaced by the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Store::DBIC manpage.
Replaced by the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Credential::HTTP manpage.
Replaced by the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Store::LDAP manpage.
Replaced by the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication manpage.
The the Catalyst::Plugin::Config::JSON manpage and the Catalyst::Plugin::Config::YAML manpage modules have been replaced by their corresponding the Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader manpage modules.
Replaced by the Catalyst::Action::RenderView manpage
The the Catalyst::Plugin::Session::CGISession manpage, the Catalyst::Plugin::Session::FastMmap manpage, the Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Flex manpage, and the Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Manager manpage modules have been replaced by the <Catalyst::Plugin::Session> framework.
Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>
Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>
Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>
Marcus Ramberg <mramberg@cpan.org>
David Kamholz <dkamholz@cpan.org>
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.