Add App::Netdisco::Util::ExpandParams a CGI::Expand subclass with Rails like tokenization for parameters passed during DataTables server-side processing.

Netdisco/Makefile.PL

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ requires 'AnyEvent::DNS::EtcHosts' => 0;
 requires 'App::cpanminus' => 1.6108;
 requires 'App::local::lib::helper' => 0.07;
 requires 'Archive::Extract' => 0;
+requires 'CGI::Expand' => 2.05;
 requires 'DBD::Pg' => 0;
 requires 'DBD::SQLite' => 1.37;
 requires 'DBIx::Class' => 0.08250;

Netdisco/lib/App/Netdisco/Util/ExpandParams.pm

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package App::Netdisco::Util::ExpandParams;
+use base qw/CGI::Expand/;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+sub max_array {0}
+sub separator {'.[]'}
+
+sub split_name {
+    my $class = shift;
+    my $name  = shift;
+    $name =~ /^ ([^\[\]\.]+) /xg;
+    my @segs = $1;
+    push @segs, ( $name =~ / \G (?: \[ ([^\[\]\.]+) \] ) /xg );
+    return @segs;
+}
+
+sub join_name {
+    my $class = shift;
+    my ( $first, @segs ) = @_;
+    return $first unless @segs;
+    return "$first\[" . join( '][', @segs ) . "]";
+}
+
+1;
+
+__END__
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+App::Netdisco::Util::ExpandParams
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+CGI::Expand subclass with Rails like tokenization for parameters passed
+during DataTables server-side processing.
+
+=cut