repeat submission identification

[maypole.git] / lib / Maypole.pm

diff --git a/lib/Maypole.pm b/lib/Maypole.pm
index 34e2ebbc2b7819c7657e98550fa4e03a97b3d99e..536e1a6689ac2c0329beb1d43ea4255555c2865d 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Maypole.pm
+++ b/lib/Maypole.pm
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use Maypole::Config;
 use Maypole::Constants;
 use Maypole::Headers;
 
-our $VERSION = '2.08';
+our $VERSION = '2.09';
 
 __PACKAGE__->mk_classdata($_) for qw( config init_done view_object );
 __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(
@@ -222,6 +222,13 @@ sub send_output {
     die "Do not use Maypole directly; use Apache::MVC or similar";
 }
 
+# Session and Repeat Submission Handling
+
+sub make_random_id {
+    use Maypole::Session;
+    return Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id();
+}
+
 =head1 NAME
 
 Maypole - MVC web application framework
@@ -235,7 +242,7 @@ See L<Maypole::Application>.
 This documents the Maypole request object. See the L<Maypole::Manual>, for a
 detailed guide to using Maypole.
 
-Maypole is a Perl web application framework to Java's struts. It is 
+Maypole is a Perl web application framework similar to Java's struts. It is 
 essentially completely abstracted, and so doesn't know anything about
 how to talk to the outside world.
 
@@ -464,6 +471,9 @@ This method first checks if the relevant model class
 can handle exceptions the user, or falls back to the default
 exception method of your Maypole application.
 
+=head3 make_random_id
+
+returns a unique id for this request can be used to prevent or detect repeat submissions.
 
 =head3 handler