Perl REST flow layout

Question

I'm using Apache and Perl (modperl), with Handlers to handle requests. I'm new to this, and I'm not quite sure how to lay things out in a sensible way.

Right now I have the following:

package MyClass::Handler;

use warnings;
use strict;
# includes

our %action = ( 
   'a' => \&a,
   # And more
);

sub handler {
    my $a = shift;
    my $r = Apache2::Request->new($a);

    # Do things

    return Apache2::Const::OK();
}

Should I have a different file for each "space"? Using stackoverflow as a template, do I need a User.pm for all the User management? A Story.pm for stories?

Answer 1

You might be interested in the excellent CGI::Application framework from CPAN. Despite its name, it works both under normal CGI and mod_perl. It's designed to make the task of setting up web-app dispatch tables very simple. Throw in CGI::Application::Dispatch and you get nice REST-like URLs.