ClassCGI

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The following is a description of a module I (Ovid) keep meaning to write, but don't. Anyone want to tackle it?

NAME

Class::CGI -- Use CGI parameters as objects

SYNOPSIS

use Class::CGI (
    customer_id => Class::CGI::Customer
);

my $cgi      = Class::CGI->new;
my $customer = $cgi->param('customer_id');
my $name     = $customer->name;

DESCRIPTION

For small CGI scripts, it's still common to get a parameter, untaint it, pass it to an object constructor and get the object back. This module would allow one to to build Class::CGI handler classes (subclassing would not be appropriate) which could take the parameter value, automatically perform those steps and just return the object. Much grunt work would just go away.

Initial idea and discussion.