repeat submission identification

[maypole.git] / lib / Maypole.pm

diff --git a/lib/Maypole.pm b/lib/Maypole.pm
index 39a776a7691c19e62cb24ae3a345c5e6a63d6905..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 = '2.06';
+our $VERSION = '2.09';
 
 __PACKAGE__->mk_classdata($_) for qw( config init_done view_object );
 __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(
@@ -186,8 +186,7 @@ sub exception { return ERROR }
 sub parse_path {
     my $self = shift;
     $self->{path} ||= "frontpage";
-    my @pi = split /\//, $self->{path};
-    shift @pi while @pi and !$pi[0];
+    my @pi = $self->{path} =~ m{([^/]+)/?}g;
     $self->{table}  = shift @pi;
     $self->{action} = shift @pi;
     $self->{action} ||= "index";
@@ -223,6 +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
@@ -236,7 +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.
 
@@ -465,6 +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
 
@@ -492,7 +501,7 @@ Maypole is currently maintained by Simon Flack C<simonflk#cpan.org>
 
 Simon Cozens, C<simon#cpan.org>
 
-Sebastian Riedel, C<sri#oook.de> maintained Maypole from 1.8 to 2.04
+Sebastian Riedel, C<sri#oook.de> maintained Maypole from 1.99_01 to 2.04
 
 =head1 THANKS TO