[Jifty-commit] r5316 - in jifty/trunk: lib

[Jifty commits]

Author: alexmv
Date: Wed Apr 16 17:41:10 2008
New Revision: 5316

Modified:
   jifty/trunk/   (props changed)
   jifty/trunk/lib/Jifty.pm

Log:
 r29946 at kohr-ah:  chmrr | 2008-04-16 17:40:37 -0400
  * Give a way for scripts to not make var/mason/* dirs


Modified: jifty/trunk/lib/Jifty.pm
==============================================================================
--- jifty/trunk/lib/Jifty.pm	(original)
+++ jifty/trunk/lib/Jifty.pm	Wed Apr 16 17:41:10 2008
@@ -132,6 +132,15 @@
 database or do something extreme like that; most of Jifty expects the
 handle to exist.  Defaults to false.
 
+=item no_views
+
+If this is set to true, does not initialize any of the view handling
+components of Jifty.  This is useful if you are running a command-line
+script, and not want the overhead associated with it.  This also
+prevents the mason cache files from being created, which may be the
+right thing if your script is running as a privileged user.  Defaults
+to false.
+
 =item logger_component
 
 The name that Jifty::Logger will log under.  If you don't specify anything
@@ -150,6 +159,7 @@
         no_handle        => 0,
         pre_init         => 0,
         logger_component => undef,
+        no_views         => 0,
         @_
     );
 
@@ -230,7 +240,7 @@
         qw/Jifty::Model::Metadata Jifty::Model::Session/;
 
     # Configure the request handler and action API handler
-    Jifty->handler(Jifty::Handler->new());
+    Jifty->handler(Jifty::Handler->new()) unless $args{no_views};
     Jifty->api(Jifty::API->new());
 
     # We can only require view classes once we have our models and actions set.