Config::MVP::Assembler - multivalue-property config-loading state machine
version 2.200013
First, you should probably read the example of using Config::MVP. If you already
know how it works, keep going.
Config::MVP::Assembler is a helper for constructing a Config::MVP::Sequence
object. It's a very simple state machine that lets you signal what kind of
events you've encountered while reading configuration.
This module should work on any version of perl still receiving updates from the
Perl 5 Porters. This means it should work on any version of perl released in
the last two to three years. (That is, if the most recently released version
is v5.40, then this module should work on both v5.40 and v5.38.)
Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the
minimum required version will not be increased. The version may be increased
for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower
the minimum required perl.
This attribute stores the name of the class to be used for the assembler's
sequence. It defaults to Config::MVP::Sequence.
This attribute stores the name of the class to be used for sections created by
the assembler. It defaults to Config::MVP::Section.
This is the sequence that the assembler is assembling. It defaults to a new
instance of the assembler's "sequence_class".
$assembler->begin_section($package_moniker, $name);
$assembler->begin_section($package_moniker);
$assembler->begin_section( \$package );
This method tells the assembler that it should begin work on a new section with
the given identifier. If it is already working on a section, an error will be
raised. See "change_section" for a method to begin a new section,
ending the current one if needed.
The package moniker is expanded by the "expand_package" method. The
name, if not given, defaults to the package moniker. These data are used to
create a new section and the section is added to the end of the sequence. If
the package argument is a reference, it is used as the literal value for the
package, and no expansion is performed. If it is a reference to undef, a
section with no package is created.
$assembler->end_section;
This ends the current section. If there is no current section, an exception is
raised.
$assembler->change_section($package_moniker, $name);
$assembler->change_section($package_moniker);
This method calls "begin_section", first calling
"end_section" if needed.
$assembler->add_value( $name => $value );
This method tells the assembler that it has encountered a named value and should
add it to the current section. If there is no current section, an exception is
raised. (If this is not the first time we've seen the name in the section and
it's not a multivalue property, the section class will raise an exception on
its own.)
This method is passed a short identifier for a package and is expected to return
the full name of the module to load and package to interrogate. By default it
simply returns the name it was passed, meaning that package names must be
given whole to the "change_section" method.
This returns the section object onto which the assembler is currently adding
values. If no section has yet been created, this method will return false.
my $assembler = Config::MVP::Assembler->new;
# Maybe you want a starting section:
my $starting_section = $assembler->section_class->new({ name => '_' });
$assembler->sequence->add_section($section_starting);
# We'll add some values, which will go to the starting section:
$assembler->add_value(x => 10);
$assembler->add_value(y => 20);
# Change to a new section...
$assembler->change_section($moniker);
# ...and add values to that section.
$assembler->add_value(x => 100);
$assembler->add_value(y => 200);
The code above creates an assembler and populates it step by step. In the end,
to get values, you could do something like this:
my @output;
for my $section ($assembler->sequence->sections) {
push @output, [ $section->name, $section->package, $section->payload ];
}
When changing sections, the given section "moniker" is used for the
new section name. The result of passing that moniker to the assembler's
"expand_package" method is used as the section's package name. (By
default, this method does nothing.) The new section's
"multivalue_args" and "aliases" are determined by calling
the "mvp_multivalue_args" and "mvp_aliases" methods on the
package.
Ricardo Signes <
[email protected]>
This software is copyright (c) 2022 by Ricardo Signes.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.