RE: A "catch-all" component?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Rolsky [mailto:autarch@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:55 PM
> To: Marc Logghe
> Cc: Egor Shipovalov; Mason-Users
> Subject: RE: [Mason] A "catch-all" component?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Marc Logghe wrote:
> 
> > > That's called a subrequest.
> 
> > Well, not exactly.
> 
> > What I meant was the following. Suppose a request is made for
> > /index.html in which a call to the component <& 
> /languages/show_news.nl
> > &> is made. But, the component /languages/show_news.nl does 
> not exist.
> > Normally Mason will throw an exception, right ? What I was thinking
> > about, is that instead, it is handled by a dhandler like 
> component which
> > then can connect to a database for instance, and fetch news 
> items from a
> > database. Or, e.g. another scenario, calls the component
> > /languages/show_news and implements the dutch translation one way or
> > another.
> 
> If you instead do:
> 
>  % $m->subexec( '/languages/show_news', ... );
> 
> it will do dhandler lookup and so on.  That's the point of 
> subrequests.
> 
> The only difference between this and what you're proposing is that you
> have to explicitly use a subrequest instead of a normal 
> component call.
Exactly. That was the point I was trying to make.
cheers,
Marc


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