Dancer...:Debug(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

Dancer::Handler::Debug — a debug handler that makes tracing your Dancer app an absolute vibe 💅 (it's the Dancer::Handler::Debug page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, bestie, and yes we're getting into it)

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 1.3522 — that's the one, no cap 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so when you're developing a Dancer application, sometimes you really need to see exactly what goes down when a query gets processed. like, the full play-by-play. and this handler? it's literally here to hand that to you — it gives you a way to run your dancer app inside the Perl debugger without wanting to scream. icon behavior, honestly ✨

here's the tea though: this handler processes one query. just one. based on the arguments you feed it on the command line, which must follow this pattern:

<verb> <path> <parameter segment> <env variable> <even variable>

(yes, <even variable> — we said what we said, copy it exactly, don't come for me 🙈)

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👑 USAGE 👑

# in bin/app.pl
set apphandler => 'Debug';

# then, run the app the following way
perl -d bin/app.pl GET '/some/path/to/test'

# with arguments
perl -d bin/app.pl GET '/some/path/to/test' 'with=parameters&other=42'

# with environment variables
perl -d bin/app.pl GET '/some/path/to/test' '' HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH=XMLHttpRequest SERVER_NAME=fake

look at that. three little blocks, three whole moods. set the handler, run it plain, run it with params, run it with env vars — chef's kiss 🧚

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

Dancer contributors 🫶

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Dancer Core Developers 👑

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Alexis Sukrieh.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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and that's the whole page, bestie — no crumbs left behind 💀✨ this was perl v5.40.1 energy, dated 2026-05-05, and you ate that. go run your one (1) debug query and slay 🎀💅