# $Id: Sitebase.pm,v 1.10 2009/08/10 09:28:39 grant Exp $ package WWW::Sitebase; use Spiffy -Base; use Carp; use Params::Validate; use Config::General; use YAML qw'LoadFile DumpFile'; =head1 NAME WWW::Sitebase - Base class for Perl modules =head1 VERSION Version 0.9 =cut our $VERSION = '0.9'; =head1 SYNOPSIS (Derived from WWW::Myspace::MyBase 0.3) This is a base class that can be used for all Perl modules. I could probably call it "Base" or somesuch, but that's a bit too presumptious for my taste, so I just included it here. You'll probably just use WWW::Sitebase::Navigator or WWW::Sitebase::Poster instead, which subclass WWW::Sitebase. WWW::Sitebase provides basic, standardized options parsing in several formats. It validates data using Params::Validate. To use this in your new module, you simply subclass this module, add the "default_options" method to define your data, and write your methods. package WWW::MySite::MyModule; use WWW::Sitebase -Base; const default_options => { happiness => 1, # Required count => { default => 50 }, # Not required, defaults to 50 }; field 'happiness'; field 'count'; sub mymethod { if ( $self->happiness ) { print "I'm happy" } } People can then call your method with: $object = new WWW::MySite::MyModule( happiness => 5 ); or $object = new WWW::MySite::MyModule( { happiness => 5 } ); See Params::Validate for more info on the format of, and available parsing stunts available in, default_options. =cut # ###################################################################### # Setup ###################################################################### # Libraries we use ###################################################################### # new =head1 METHODS =head2 default_options This method returns a hashref of the available options and their default values. The format is such that it can be passed to Params::Validate (and, well it is :). You MUST override this method to return your default options. Basically, you just have to do this: sub default_options { $self->{default_options}={ option => { default => value }, option => { default => value }, }; return $self->{default_options}; } The approach above lets your subclasses add more options if they need to. it also sets the default_options parameter, and returns it so that you can call $self->default_options instead of $self->{default_options}. =cut stub 'default_options'; =head2 positional_parameters If you need to use positional paramteres, define a "positional_parameters" method that returns a reference to a list of the parameter names in order, like this: const positional_parameters => [ "username", "password" ]; If the first argument to the "new" method is not a recognized option, positional parameters will be used instead. So to have someone pass a browser object followed by a hashref of options, you could do: const positional_parameters => [ 'browser', 'options' ]; =cut stub 'positional_parameters'; =head2 new Initialize and return a new object. We accept the following formats: new - Just creates and returns the new object. new( $options_hashref ) new( %options ); new( @options ); - Each option passed is assigned in order to the keys of the "DEFAULT_OPTIONS" hash. new( 'config_file' => "/path/to/file", 'config_file_format' => 'YAML' ); - File format can be "YAML" (see YAML.pm) or "CFG" (see Config::General). - Defaults to "YAML" if not specified. If you specify options and a config file, the config file will be read, and any options you explicitly passed will override the options read from the config file. =cut sub new() { # Set up the basic object my $proto = shift; my $class = ref($proto) || $proto; my $self = {}; bless( $self, $class ); # Unless they passed some options, we're done. return $self unless ( @_ ); # Set the options they passed. $self->set_options( @_ ); # Done return $self; } =head2 set_options Allows you to set additional options. This is called by the "new" method to parse, validate, and set options into the object. You can call it yourself if you want to, either to set the options, or to change them later. # Set up the object $object->new( browser => $browser ); # Read in a config file later. $object->set_options( config_file => $user_config ); This also lets you override options you supply directly with, say, a user-supplied config file. Otherwise, the options passed to "new" would override the config file. =cut sub set_options { # Figure out the paramter format and return a hash of option=>value pairs my %options = $self->parse_options( @_ ); # Validate the options my @options = (); foreach my $key ( keys %options ) { push ( @options, $key, $options{$key} ); } %options = validate( @options, $self->default_options ); # Copy them into $self foreach my $key ( keys( %options ) ) { $self->{"$key"} = $options{"$key"} } } =head2 get_options General accessor method for all options. Takes a list of options and returns their values. If called with one option, returns just the value. If called with more than one option, returns a list of option => value pairs (not necessarily in the order of your original list). If called with no arguments, returns a list of all options and their values (as option => value pairs). This is basically a "catch all" accessor method that allows you to be lazy ad not create accessors for your options. =cut sub get_options { my ( @options ) = @_; # If no options were specified, return them all unless ( @options ) { @options = keys( %{ $self->default_options } ); } # If there's only one value requested, return just it return $self->{$options[0]} if ( @options == 1 ); # Otherwise return a hash of option => value pairs. my %ret_options = (); foreach my $option ( @options ) { if ( $self->{ $option } ) { $ret_options{ $option } = $self->{ $option }; } else { croak "Invalid option passed to get_options"; } } return ( %ret_options ); } =head2 parse_options This method is called by set_options to determine the format of the options passed and return a hash of option=>value pairs. If needed, you can call it yourself using the same formats described in "new" above. $object->new; $object->parse_options( 'username' => $username, 'config_file' => "/path/to/file" ); =cut sub parse_options { my %options = (); # figure out the format # - new( $options_hashref ) if ( ( @_ == 1 ) && ( ref $_[0] eq 'HASH') ) { %options = %{ $_[0] }; # - new( %options ) # If more than 1 argument, and an even number of arguments, and # the first argument is one of our known options. } elsif ( ( @_ > 1 ) && ( @_ % 2 == 0 ) && ( defined( $self->default_options->{ "$_[0]" } ) ) ) { %options = ( @_ ); # - new( @options ) # We just assign them in order. } else { foreach my $option ( @{ $self->positional_parameters } ) { $options{"$option"} = shift; } } # If they passed a config file, read it if ( exists $options{'config_file'} ) { %options = $self->read_config_file( %options ); } return %options; } =head2 read_config_file This method is called by parse_options. If a "config_file" argument is passed, this method is used to read options from it. Currently supports CFG and YAML formats. =cut sub read_config_file { my ( %options ) = @_; my %config; # XXX CFG reads into a hash, YAML reads into a hashref. # This is a bit unstable, but YAML's file looks weird if you # just dump a hash to it, and hashrefs are better anyway. if ( ( defined $options{'config_file_format'} ) && ( $options{'config_file_format'} eq "CFG" ) ) { # Read CFG-file format my $conf = new Config::General( $options{'config_file'} ); %config = $conf->getall; } else { # Default to YAML format my $config = LoadFile( $options{'config_file'} ); %config = %{ $config }; } # Copy the config file into the options hashref. # Existing params override the config file foreach my $key ( keys %config ) { unless ( exists $options{"$key"} ) { $options{"$key"} = $config{"$key"}; } } return %options; } =head2 save( filename ) Saves the object to the file specified by "filename". Saves every field specified in the default_options and positional_parameters methods. =cut sub save { my $filename = shift; my $data = {}; # For each field listed as persistent, store it in the # hash of data that's going to be saved. foreach my $key ( ( keys( %{ $self->default_options } ), @{ $self->positional_parameters } ) ) { unless ( $self->_nosave( $key ) ) { # IMPORTANT: Only save what's defined or we'll # break defaults. if ( exists $self->{$key} ) { ${$data}{$key} = $self->{$key} } } } DumpFile( $filename, $data ); } =head2 _nosave( fieldname ) Override this method in your base class if there are fields you don't want the save command to save. Otherwise, all fields specified in your default_options and postitional_parameters will be saved. _nosave is passed a field name. Return 1 if you don't want it saved. Return 0 if you want it saved. The stub method just returns 0. Sample _nosave method: sub _nosave { my ( $key ) = @_; # List only fields you don't want saved my %fields = ( fieldname => 1, fieldname2 => 1 ); if ( $key && ( $fields{"$key"} ) ) { return 1 } else { return 0 } } =cut sub _nosave { return 0 } =head2 load( filename ) Loads a message in YAML format (i.e. as saved by the save method) from the file specified by filename. =cut sub load { my ( $file ) = @_; my $data = {}; ( $data ) = LoadFile( $file ); # For security we only loop through fields we know are # persistent. If there's a stored value for that field, we # load it in. foreach my $key ( ( keys( %{ $self->default_options } ), @{ $self->positional_parameters } ) ) { if ( exists ${$data}{$key} ) { $self->{$key} = ${$data}{$key} } } } =pod =head1 AUTHOR Grant Grueninger, C<< >> =head1 BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to C, or through the web interface at L. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. =head1 NOTES You currently have to both specify the options in default_options and create accessor methods for those you want accessor methods for (i.e. all of them). This should be made less redundant. We probably want to include cache_dir and possibile cache_file methods here. =head1 TO DO =head1 SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc WWW::Bebo::Base You can also look for information at: =over 4 =item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation L =item * CPAN Ratings L =item * RT: CPAN's request tracker L =item * Search CPAN L =back =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS =head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2005 Grant Grueninger, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut 1; # End of WWW::Bebo::Base