CatalystX::Dispatcher::AsGraph
This morning I saw this post from marcus ramberg about MojoX::Routes::AsGraph. I liked the idea. But as I Catalyst instead of Mojo, I thought I could give a try and do the same thing for Catalyst dispatcher, and I’ve coded CatalystX::Dispatcher::AsGraph. For the moment only private actions are graphed.

You use it like this:
perl bin/catalyst_graph_dispatcher.pl --appname Arkham --output routes.png
You can create a simple script to output as text if you prefer:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CatalystX::Dispatcher::AsGraph; my $graph = CatalystX::Dispatcher::AsGraph->new_with_options(); $graph->run; print $graph->graph->as_txt;
The code is on github for the moment.
For thoses who are interested by visualization, I’ll publish soon some (at least I think) really nice visualisations about CPAN, Perl, and his community, that we have created at $work.

June 2nd, 2009 at 11:10 am
Excellent! Release early release often, please :)
June 11th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I’ve a strange message and I’m not very familiar with Moose. Could you help me ?
unknown option name ‘CatalystX::Dispatcher::AsGraph’ at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MooseX/Declare/Syntax/NamespaceHandling.pm line 45
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/catalyst_graph_dispatcher.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/catalyst_graph_dispatcher.pl line 3.