What Perl RESTful framework do you recommend?

Hi I'm looking for a Perl RESTful framework that have to :

work under apache2/mod_perl2
be simple
be elegant
be light
be flexible

Am I just dreaming or can I avoid the 'Roll our own' approach?

What framework would you recommend?

Solution

I think you will find that Squatting ticks all those boxes!

I've written quite a few small RESTful apps with it. Its ideally suited for this and its been a pleasure to work with.

Here are some more links:

Here is a simple "hello world!" example:

use strict;
use warnings;

{
  package Simple;
  use base 'Squatting';
}

{ 
  package Simple::Controllers;
  use Squatting ':controllers';

  our @C = (
    C(
      Index => [ '/' ],
      get   => sub { 
        my ($self) = @_;
        my $v = $self->v;
        $v->{hello} = 'Hello World!';
        $self->render( 'hello' );
      },
    ),
  );
}

{
  package Simple::Views;
  use Squatting ':views';
  use HTML::AsSubs;

  our @V = (
    V(  'html',

      layout => sub { 
        my ($self, $v, @yield) = @_;
        html(
          head( title('Simple web app') ),
          body( @yield ),
        )->as_HTML;
      },
  
      hello => sub {
        my ($self, $v) = @_;
        p( $v->{hello} );
      },
    ),
  );
}

Save above as Simple.pm in relevant place and make sure the following is in your Apache config:

<Perl>
  use Simple 'On::MP20';
  Simple->init
</Perl>

<Location />
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler Simple->mp20
</Location>

And away you go!

While here I would also give a passing mention to a couple of other frameworks which should fit the bill:

I say "passing mention" because I haven't used either of these and I'm not sure if either work (out of the box) with mod_perl2. Still with PSGI / Plack just around the corner this wouldn't be an issue for too long ;-)

/I3az/