#+title:         Status Report for Week #9
#+date:          2011-07-28
#+layout:        post
#+category:      gsoc

For week #9, I met for a few days with my mentors, but didn't set new
tasks, it was mostly code review. They did help me out with the
migration of =Dancer::Script= to =Dancer::Object=. After that I added
some other details to my commits, modifications that my mentors had
been pushing since the last weeks. From that most of my time was taken
by handling the module with =Dancer::Object=. After that, tests and
more tests were part of the whole week. It was really more about me
studying what I was going to do than actually writing code. I did
format the log outputs in the module and added new error messages.

*** What I worked on Week #9
I completely moved everything to =Dancer::Object=, so not only did we
make use of =Dancer::Logger=, but also take more on =Dancer= modules,
instead of adding more dependencies. So what does this means? Well,
that you go from using this:

#+begin_src perl
$self->{appname} = $appname;
#+end_src

To using this:

#+begin_src perl
$self->appname($appname);
#+end_src

This makes the reading/writing more elegant, and you make use of less
lines per action or logic block. You can find more about that
modification in this [[https://github.com/gnusosa/Dancer/commit/ff85edfc8707645d04679d492ad51c426df985c5][commit]].

While I was at this I used =perltidy= to indent and format correctly
my files, so I could present =Dancer::Script= to the core team of
=Dancer=. So the end-of-lines, tabs, and spaces that my editor was
doing, are no longer in my files.

While I was modifying stuff related to the module, Franck ask me to
modify all the =subs= naming into =private methods=. The methods moved
from =templates= to =_templates=, and so forth in the file. The
following [[https://github.com/gnusosa/Dancer/commit/f75f9605b011564070e6032ec027f84ca6b3ceb6][commit]] shows the changes.

For last, I added the new error outputs using the method =error()=
from =Dancer::Logger::Abstract=. Since I was already using =debug=
method, it felt right to also make use of =error()=. You can find
those lines changes in this [[https://github.com/gnusosa/Dancer/commit/8b57c8b258eed80f6d502bf8e88e62a5cba99838][commit]].

*** What's next?
For week #10, the following are the key points:

- Finish and polish the documentation for the module.
- Fix new errors in several tests.
- Write a code hand-out of the plugins implementation.
- Add detailed tests to each plugin function.

So this week's work is more than I thought, but I'm happy because of
the progress I've made without much guidance for week #9. For week
#10, I'm happy to say that this would take me all the week, including
the weekend. I don't want to get stuck in the most important thing:
the documentation.

On another note, I introduced =Dancer::Script= to the Dancer's core
development team in the following post I did in the middle of the
week. Here is the [[http://gnusosa.net/gsoc/2011/07/27/current-state-dancer-script.html][post]]. I had a positive feedback, so thanks to
everyone that read my post.

Cheers to everybody!