Dancer’s development update, near to release 1.140

Lots of good things happened recently in Dancer’s development, here they are:

HTTP::Server::Simple::PSGI

After my last post about Dancer, Tatsuiko Miyagawa suggested to build Dancer’s standalone server upon a PSGI-aware layer, rather than on HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI.

A couple of days later, he released HTTP::Server::Simple::PSGI, which is actually based HTTP::Server::Simple (which itself doesn’t depend on any non-core modules).

A few patches later, the standalone server was refactored and running on this new guy. That means when writing a Dancer app, you can now always rely on PSGI environment goodness, whereas you’re using the standalone server, or the Plack architecture. That just rocks, again kudos to @miyagawa.

Dancer::Request

The Dancer::Request class got also heavily refactored and enhanced, it can now provide the user with an access to the raw body of the incoming request (thanks to RasterBurn for the report).

By the way, this class needs still so more features, and I’m actively working on it. I may release Dancer 1.2 when I’m happy with that one.

Oh and it also now provides a complete documentation. POD FTW.

Dancer::Route

I also gave a shot at Dancer::Route, which has been recently patched to support some new features (prefix and conditional matching, thanks to Frank Cuny)

No more CGI.pm, really!

I also found that CGI.pm was still used in one very place for rendering and HTML page. This was a shame as we wanted Dancer to be 100% CGI.pm-free. Hence the patch that actually allow us to say it now, for REAL ;)

All of this freash meat is available on my GitHub repo and will be soon released to CPAN, under version 1.140. Stay tuned!