package Workflow::Action; # $Id: Action.pm 493 2009-10-05 13:08:14Z jonasbn $ # Note: we may implement a separate event mechanism so that actions # can trigger other code (use 'Class::Observable'? read observations # from database?) use warnings; use strict; use base qw( Workflow::Base ); use Log::Log4perl qw( get_logger ); use Workflow::Action::InputField; use Workflow::Validator::HasRequiredField; use Workflow::Factory qw( FACTORY ); use Carp qw(croak); $Workflow::Action::VERSION = '1.10'; my @PROPS = qw( name class description ); __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(@PROPS); #################### # INPUT FIELDS sub add_fields { my ( $self, @fields ) = @_; push @{ $self->{_fields} }, @fields; } sub required_fields { my ($self) = @_; return grep { $_->requirement() eq 'required' } @{ $self->{_fields} }; } sub optional_fields { my ($self) = @_; return grep { $_->requirement() eq 'optional' } @{ $self->{_fields} }; } sub fields { my ($self) = @_; return @{ $self->{_fields} }; } #################### # VALIDATION sub add_validators { my ( $self, @validator_info ) = @_; my @validators = (); foreach my $conf (@validator_info) { my $validator = FACTORY->get_validator( $conf->{name} ); my @args = $self->normalize_array( $conf->{arg} ); push @validators, { validator => $validator, args => \@args }; } push @{ $self->{_validators} }, @validators; } sub get_validators { my ($self) = @_; return () if (not defined $self->{_validators}); return @{ $self->{_validators} }; } sub validate { my ( $self, $wf ) = @_; my @validators = $self->get_validators; return unless ( scalar @validators ); my $context = $wf->context; foreach my $validator_info (@validators) { my $validator = $validator_info->{validator}; my $args = $validator_info->{args}; my @runtime_args = ($wf); foreach my $arg ( @{$args} ) { if ( $arg =~ /^\$(.*)$/ ) { push @runtime_args, $context->param($1); } else { push @runtime_args, $arg; } } $validator->validate(@runtime_args); } } # Subclasses override... sub execute { my ( $self, $wf ) = @_; croak "Class ", ref($self), " must implement 'execute()'\n"; } ######################################## # PRIVATE sub init { my ( $self, $wf, $params ) = @_; my $log = get_logger(); # So we don't destroy the original... my %copy_params = %{$params}; $self->class( $copy_params{class} ); $self->name( $copy_params{name} ); $self->description( $copy_params{description} ); ## init normal fields my @fields = $self->normalize_array( $copy_params{field} ); foreach my $field_info (@fields) { if(my $field_class = $field_info->{class}){ $log->debug("Using custom field class $field_class"); $self->add_fields( $field_class->new($field_info) ); } else{ $log->debug("Using standard field class"); $self->add_fields( Workflow::Action::InputField->new($field_info) ); } } ## establish validator for fields with is_required="yes" @fields = $self->required_fields(); my $validator = Workflow::Validator::HasRequiredField->new( { name => 'HasRequiredField for is_required fields', class => 'Workflow::Validator::HasRequiredField' } ); my @args = (); foreach my $field (@fields) { next if ( not $field ); ## empty @fields array push @args, $field->name(); } push @{ $self->{_validators} }, { validator => $validator, args => \@args }; ## init normal validators my @validator_info = $self->normalize_array( $copy_params{validator} ); $self->add_validators(@validator_info); delete @copy_params{qw( class name description field validator )}; # everything else is just a passthru param while ( my ( $key, $value ) = each %copy_params ) { $self->param( $key, $value ); } } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Workflow::Action - Base class for Workflow actions =head1 VERSION This documentation describes version 1.09 of this package =head1 SYNOPSIS # Configure the Action... $username $email # Define the action package MyApp::Action::CreateUser; use base qw( Workflow::Action ); use Workflow::Exception qw( workflow_error ); sub execute { my ( $self, $wf ) = @_; my $context = $wf->context; # Since 'username' and 'email' have already been validated we # don't need to check them for uniqueness, well-formedness, etc. my $user = eval { User->create({ username => $context->param( 'username' ), email => $context->param( 'email' ) }) }; # Wrap all errors returned... if ( $@ ) { workflow_error "Cannot create new user with name '", $context->param( 'username' ), "': $EVAL_ERROR"; } # Set the created user in the context for the application and/or # other actions (observers) to use $context->param( user => $user ); # return the username since it might be used elsewhere... return $user->username; } =head1 DESCRIPTION This is the base class for all Workflow Actions. You do not have to use it as such but it is strongly recommended. =head1 CONFIGURATION You configure your actions and map them to a specific module in your actions configuration file using the syntax above and that shown in L. In some cases, you'll have actions that apply to all workflows. In more elaborate configurations, you may have one workflow server loading multiple workflows and multiple actions for each. In these cases, you'll have multiple workflow types and you may want actions with the same names to have different behaviors for each type. For example, you may have a workflow type Ticket and another type Order_Parts. They both may have a Submit action, but you'll want the Submit to be different for each. You can specify a type in your actions configuration to associate that action with that workflow type. If you don't provide a type, the action is available to all types. For example: Ticket Actions for the Ticket workflow only. ...Addtional configuration... The type must match an existing workflow type or the action will never be called. =head1 OBJECT METHODS =head2 Public Methods =head3 new() Subclasses may override this method, but it's not very common. It is called when you invoke a method in your Workflow object that returns an Action object, for example, methods such as $wf->_get_action will call this method. B need to override this method at all>. However, under some circumstances, you may find the need to extend your action classes. Suppose you want to define some extra properties to actions but you also want for some of these properties to depend on a particular state. For example, the action "icon" will almost allways be the same, but the action "index" will depend on state, so you can display your actions in a certain order according to that particular state. Here is an example on how you easily do this by overriding new(): 1) Set the less changing properties in your action definition: foo 2) Set the state dependant properties in the state definition: Manage Manufaturers 3) Craft a custom action base class package your::action::base::class; use warnings; use strict; use base qw( Workflow::Action ); use Workflow::Exception qw( workflow_error ); # extra action class properties my @EXTRA_PROPS = qw( index icon type data ); __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(@EXTRA_PROPS); sub new { my ($class, $wf, $params) = @_; my $self = $class->SUPER::new($wf, $params); # set only our extra properties from action class def foreach my $prop (@EXTRA_PROPS) { next if ( $self->$prop ); $self->$prop( $params->{$prop} ); } # override specific extra action properties according to state my $wf_state = $wf->_get_workflow_state; my $action = $wf_state->{_actions}->{$self->name}; $self->index($action->{index}); return $self; } 1; B: this hack takes advantage of the fact that the XML parser picks up the extra parameters and add them to the action hash of the current $wf_state. Your milage may vary. 4) Use your custom action base class instead of the default package actual::action::class; use warnings; use strict; use base qw( your::base::action::class ); use Workflow::Exception qw( workflow_error ); sub execute { ... } 1; =head2 Private Methods =head3 init( $workflow, \%params ) init is called in conjuction with the overall workflow initialization. It sets up the necessary validators based on the on configured actions, input fields and required fields. =head3 add_field( @fields ) Add one or more Ls to the action. =head3 required_fields() Return a list of L objects that are required. =head3 optional_fields() Return a list of L objects that are optional. =head3 fields() Return a list of all L objects associated with this action. =head3 add_validators( @validator_config ) Given the 'validator' configuration declarations in the action configuration, ask the L for the L object associated with each name and store that along with the arguments to be used, runtime and otherwise. =head3 get_validators() Get a list of all the validator hashrefs, each with two keys: 'validator' and 'args'. The 'validator' key contains the appropriate L object, while 'args' contains an arrayref of arguments to pass to the validator, some of which may need to be evaluated at runtime. =head3 validate( $workflow ) Run through all validators for this action. If any fail they will throw a L, the validation subclass. =head3 execute( $workflow ) Subclasses B implement -- this will perform the actual work. It's not required that you return anything, but if the action may be used in a L object that has multiple resulting states you should return a simple scalar for a return value. =head3 add_fields Method to add fields to the workflow. The method takes an array of fields. =head1 SEE ALSO L L =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Chris Winters. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 AUTHORS Chris Winters Echris@cwinters.comE