NAME

Dancer::Plugin::ValidationClass - Centralized Input Validation For Dancer

VERSION

version 0.120490

SYNOPSIS

    use Dancer;
    use Dancer::Plugin::ValidationClass;

    post '/authenticate/:login' => sub {
        unless (rules->validate('login', 'password')) {
            return rules->errors->to_string;
        }
    };

    dance;

DESCRIPTION

This plugin provides a convenient wrapper around the Validation::Class module for easy, reusable data validation for your Dancer applications. You don't even need to configure it unless your environment isn't a typical one.

ADVANCED SYNOPSIS

    use Dancer;
    use Dancer::Plugin::ValidationClass;

    post '/authenticate/:login' => sub {
        
        # validate everything
        unless (rules->validate()) {
            return rules->errors->to_string('<br/>');
        }
    };

    dance;

CONFIGURATION

Connection details will be optionally grabbed from your Dancer config file. For example:

    plugins:
      ValidationClass:
        class: Foo::Bar
        
    or
    
    plugins:
      ValidationClass:
        class: lib/Foo/Bar.pm

If no configuration information is given, this plugin will attempt to use the application's name, as set in the configuration file, and assume the class is $AppName::Validation under the lib directory.

METHODS

rules

This method returns the current Validation::Class instance if one exists.

    1 if rules->validate('login', 'password');
    1 if rules->validate({
        login => 'users:login',
        passw => 'users:password'
    });

    unless (rules->validate('login', 'password')) {
        return rules->error; # arrayref of errors
    }

AUTHOR

Al Newkirk <awncorp@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.