[ic] ic6 Cart rewrite in Moo - initial Cart::Item class

[Peter Mottram]

Answering myself here: I'm getting so close to a replacement Cart that 
I'm going to get it finished. We'll have to wait and see what happens later.

On 05/02/14 14:56, Peter Mottram wrote:
> On 03/02/14 19:45, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
>> On 02/03/2014 07:20 PM, Peter Mottram wrote:
>>> Since the wiki tasks section lists 'Rewrite Interchange6::Cart using 
>>> Moo' I thought I'd start having a bit of a hack.
>>> I decided a Cart::Item would be a good starting point and that also 
>>> needed some Types and the beginnings of some tests of Cart::Item:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/SysPete/Interchange6/compare/moo_cart
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate feedback as if I'm on the right track then a full 
>>> replacement of I6::Cart in Moo shouldn't be too hard.
>>> It certainly makes param validation much clearer and I expect the 
>>> new cart would be much more readable.
>>>
>> Yeah, definitely looks promising. So this task is officially yours:
>>
>> https://github.com/interchange/Interchange6/issues/3
>>
>> Thanks for taking it up!
>>
>> Regards
>>            Racke
> As I ploughed along with this I started to feel that I was 
> reimplementing parts of Dancer2. I'm now looking at borrowing directly 
> (with only minor changes) from:
>
> Dancer2::Core::Hook
> Dancer2::Core::Role::Hookable
>
> And looking at pulling various chunks from:
>
> Dancer2::Core::App
>
> Probably lots of other useful scaffolding already exists in Dancer2. 
> To be honest I'm starting to feel that it might be simpler to drop 
> Interchange6::Cart and just start on Dancer2::Plugin::Interchange6. 
> Maybe I could just borrow lots of code for now but that just means 
> we'll start carrying baggage that could be handled better by just saying:
>
> use Dancer2::Hook;
>
> I'm quite a way on with this so maybe I should finish it off as it 
> could then be used in the future as part of a Dancer2 replacement.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> R.
> PeteM