NAME Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Tangram - A storage class for Catalyst authentication from a class stored in Tangram SYNOPSIS use Catalyst qw/ Authentication /; __PACKAGE__->config( authentication => { default_realm => 'members', realms => { members => { credential => { class => 'Password', password_field => 'password', password_type => 'clear' }, store => { class => 'Tangram', tangram_user_class => 'Users', tangram_model => 'Tangram', storage_method => 'storage', # $c->model('Tangram')->storage }, }, }, }); # Log a user in: sub login : Global { my ( $self, $c ) = @_; $c->authenticate({ email_address => $c->req->param('email_address'), password => $c->req->param('password'), }); } DESCRIPTION The Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Tangram class provides access to authentication information stored in a database via Tangram. CONFIGURATION The Tangram authentication store is activated by setting the store config's class element to *Tangram* as shown above. See the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication documentation for more details on configuring the store. The Tangram storage module has several configuration options authentication => { default_realm => 'members', realms => { members => { credential => { # ... }, store => { class => 'Tangram', user_class => 'Users', tangram_model => 'Tangram', storage_method => 'storage', # $c->model('Tangram')->storage }, }, }, } class Class is part of the core Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication module, it contains the class name of the store to be used. tangram_user_class Contains the class name of the class persisted in your Tangram schema to use as the source for user information. This config item is REQUIRED. This class name is used to get a Tangram remote object when constructing a search for your user when first authenticating, and also this is the class which the ->load method is called on to restore the user from a session. tangram_model Contains the class name (as passed to $c->model()) of the Tangram model to use as the source for user information. This config item is REQUIRED. The *storage_method* method will be invoked on this class to get the Tangram::Storage instance to restore the user from. storage_method Contains the method to call on the *tangram_model* to retrieve the instance of Tangram::Storage which users are looked up from. user_class Contains the class which the user object is blessed into. This class is usually Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Tangram::User, but you can sub-class that class and have your subclass used instead by setting this configuration parameter. You will not need to use this setting unless you are doing unusual things with the user class. METHODS new ( $config, $app, $realm ) Simple constructor, returns a blessed reference to the store object instance. find_user ( $authinfo, $c ) *$auth_info* is expected to be a hash with the keys being field names on your Tangram user object, and the values being what those fields should be matched against. A tangram select will be built from the supplied auth info, and this select is used to retrieve the user from Tangram. for_session ( $c, $user ) This method returns the Tangram ID for the user, as that is all that is necessary to be persisted in the session to restore the user. from_session ( $c, $frozenuser ) This method is called whenever a user is being restored from the session. $frozenuser contains the Tangram ID of the user to restore. user_supports ( $feature, ... ) Returns false. AUTHOR Tomas Doran, With thanks to state51, my employer, for giving me the time to work on this. BUGS All complex software has bugs, and I'm sure that this module is no exception. Please report bugs through the rt.cpan.org bug tracker. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2008, state51. Some rights reserved. LICENSE This module is free software; you can use, redistribute, and modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.8.x.