Status (flash) messages

[Michele Beltrame]

Hello all!

I'm beginning to dig into Mojolicious (wonderful framework, by the way)
by developing a fairly complex web application.

I'm trying to understand how to handle success and error messages in
pages of my web application. I see that Mojolicious has flash(), like
Catalyst has. In Catalyst, this was however prone to possible race
conditions (wrong status message displayed in wrong tab or so).

With Catalyst, I use Catalyst::Plugin::StatusMessage, which seems to do
a good job.

Does anything similar exists for Mojolicious? Or are my worries without
any foundation?

Thanks!
Michele.

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[jay m]

we use this pattern all the time with hypnotoad deployments, and haven't seen any race conditions

we use a helper to insert a div with one of the bootstrap classes alert-info/danger/success,

based on existence of flash (or stash) keys alert-info/error/success

hope this helps

jay

[Michele Beltrame]

Hello Jay!

> we use this pattern all the time with hypnotoad deployments, and haven't
> seen any race conditions
> we use a helper to insert a div with one of the bootstrap classes
> alert-info/danger/success,
> based on existence of flash (or stash) keys alert-info/error/success

Thank you for the response.

I am especially concerned about async request made by pages open in
other tabs, which could prevent some messages from showing. It however
seems like a not-too-likely situation.

I'll go with "flash" myself, and see what happens. If it doesn't work
out, I'll try to "port" Catalyst's StatusMessage plugin to Mojolicious.

Thanks,