Jifty::Handler(3)

NAME
Jifty::Handler - Methods related to the finding and returning content

SYNOPSIS
  use Jifty;
  Jifty->new();

  my $handler = Jifty::Handler->handle_request( cgi => $cgi );

  # after each request is handled
  Jifty::Handler->cleanup_request;

DESCRIPTION
Jifty::Handler provides methods required to find and return content to the browser. "handle_request", for instance, is the main entry point for HTTP requests.

  new
Create a new Jifty::Handler object. Generally, Jifty.pm does this only once at startup.

  view_handlers
Returns a list of modules implementing view for your Jifty application.

You can override this by specifying:

  framework:
      View:
         Handlers:
            - Jifty::View::Something::Handler
            - Jifty::View::SomethingElse::Handler

  setup_view_handlers
Initialize all of our view handlers.

  view ClassName
Returns the Jifty view handler for "ClassName".

  cgi
Returns the CGI object for the current request, or "undef" if there is none.

  apache
Returns the HTML::Mason::FakeApache or Apache object for the current request, ot "undef" if there is none.

  handle_request
When your server processs (be it Jifty-internal, FastCGI or anything else) wants to handle a request coming in from the outside world, you should call "handle_request".

cgi A CGI object that your server has already set up and loaded with your request's data.

  send_http_header
Sends any relevent HTTP headers, by calling "send_http_header" in HTML::Mason::FakeApache. If this is running inside a standalone server, also sends the HTTP status header first.

Returns false if the header has already been sent.

  cleanup_request
Dispatchers should call this at the end of each request, as a class method. It flushes the session to disk, as well as flushing Jifty::DBI's cache.