Building Tables in Catalyst

[TheHobbit]

Greetings monks,
I'm looking for a module analogous of HTML::FormBuilder, but targeted to build tables to be used in a Catalyst app.

Ideally, I would have to define a table class with something like

package MyApp::Tables::MyTable;
use Some::Fantastic::TableBuilder;

has_column column_name => (
   # various named parameters
);

Here, has_column should be some analogous of has_field in HTML::FormBuilder

Then, in my controller I'll do something like

sub show :Local {
  my $data = fetch_tabular_data_from_model();
  my $table = MyApp::Tables::MyTable->new();
  $table->set_data($data);
  $c->stash(table => $table);
  $c->stash(template => 'mytable.tt2');
}

Here tabular data means something like a Data::Table instance, or a sequence of row object, such as that returned by a DBIC search.

Later, in mytable.tt2 TT template I'll have a line with

[% table.render %]

and all will magically work :)

For all to magically work I need, at the very least, to be able to put wrappers around things (whole table, rows, individual cells...) by defining wrapper methods/classes as in HTML::FormBuilder

Now there are the questions. First, does a module such as this, or something approaching it, exists? If not, would it be interesting to have it?

[Anonymous Monk]

I don't know, but, I don't think so :)

HTML::Table / HTML::Table::FromDatabase? HTML::Tabulate?

Also, HTML::FormBuilder? You mean like HTML::FormHandler::Widget::Wrapper::Table / HTML::FormHandler::Render::Table

So you could just copy/paste from one of the above examples, ditch the form stuff, and you got table stuff