Cookieless Sessions - Automatically Login Your Users

The default Bedrock persistence store, implemented via the $session object has the ability to create a token (session identifier) you can use to automatically log your users into your applications.

This is a useful feature for resetting passwords and perhaps creating convenience links for fast access to application specific pages that would normally require a user to login to the application.  Here's how it works...

Plugin Bug

Fixed a bug in the <plugin>  tag.   Class names were not being parsed correctly if there was more that 1 level to the namespace.

For example, Amazon::SNS::VerifySignature was being incorrectly parsed as Amazon::SNS which happens to be valid Perl module.

Fix pushed to master.

Expanding the Use of Perl Plugins

The <plugin> tag allows you create Perl classes that provide specific functionality for your pages.  But what about using CPAN modules as plugins?  Most CPAN modules that have a new() constructor can be used as plugins.  One of my favorite CPAN modules is Text::CSV_XS so it was disappointing to find I had some issues with this one.

  <plugin:Text::CSV_XS>

Bedrock has had a limitation on using some CPAN modules because of the way Bedrock coerces lists into Bedrock array objects when invoking method calls on objects...until now.