Getting my Mojo workin’

And now the real work starts.

I’ve gotten the support code in pretty good shape, so now what’s needed is to tackle upgrading the actual processing to Mojolicious. 

I started out by moving the App::WebWebXNG module that contained the core code into a new hold/ directory; now I needed to create the Mojolicious app. I originally though I’d be able to just create this piecemeal, so created a new dummy lib/App/WebWebXNG.pm modulino that just loaded Mojolicious and did main unless caller; with a dummy main. I then needed to add enough POD to get dzil test to pass, so added some skeleton docs in the new lib/App/WebWebXNG.pm.

I changed main to startup, since Mojo wanted that, and added stub versions of the routes for all of the functions in WebWebX. This was easy because I could simply take the dispatch hash table and change all the keys to calls to $self->routes->get, like this:

  $self->routes->get('/SearchRefs')->to("dev#hello");
  $self->routes->get('/ViewPage')->to("dev#hello");
  $self->routes->get('/ShowDiffs')->to("dev#hello");
  ...

Getting a little further into it, I realized that I really wanted a properly-structured Mojolicious application instead of a Lite one, which would have more closely resembled the original, so I used mojo generate app to generate a full-up app skeleton. I originally tried this inside the existing directory, but this created a nested app instead, so I moved up to the containing directory, ran mojo generate app there, and copied the resulting files and directories into the existing repo. I then moved the route creation into the new lib/WebWebXNG.pm and deleted lib/App/WebWebXNG.pm, and of course needed POD again. Also removed the 01load.t test for the no-longer-extant module and some use statements for it that were lying around.

Around this time I started getting irritating messages about prototypes from Perl::Critic; apparently the current version of one of the Perl::Critic core tests doesn’t properly detect signatures, and the fix is not yet forthcoming. I opened .perlcriticrc and realized that I’d been using the template version I’d been copying into code since I started working at Zip, and it was still referencing Zip Perl modules. Cleaned those up, moved the .perlcriticrc to perlcritic.rc, which is where Dist::Zilla expects it, deleted the lib/App/WebWebXNG/Controller/Dev.pm controller, since I didn’t want or need it, added POD to the generated lib/WebWebXNG/Controller/Example.pm so it would pass the POD tests, added [-Subroutines::ProhibitSubroutinePrototypes] to turn off the failing “prototype” checks, and stopped work for the day.

Tests are passing again; the code doesn’t do anything yet, but we’re on the way to start reimplementing the controllers and creating the HTML templates.