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use strict;
use Carp;
our $VERSION = '1.003';
# method that extracts the items from the remote content and returns them
sub extract {
my $class = ref $_[0] || $_[0];
no strict 'refs';
my $func = ${"$class\::Remote"}{extract};
# provide a very basic default
my $meth = ref $func eq 'CODE'
? sub { my %seen; return grep { !$seen{$_}++ } $func->( $_[1], $_[2] ); }
: sub { return $_[1] }; # very basic default
# put the method in the subclass symbol table (at runtime)
*{"$class\::extract"} = $meth;
# now run the function^Wmethod
goto &$meth;
}
# methods related to the source URL
sub source {
my $class = ref $_[0] || $_[0];
no strict 'refs';
return ${"$class\::Remote"}{source};
}
sub sources {
my $class = ref $_[0] || $_[0];
no strict 'refs';
my $src = ${"$class\::Remote"}{source};
if ( ref $src eq 'ARRAY' ) {
return @$src;
}
elsif ( ref $src eq 'HASH' ) {
return grep $_,
defined $_[1] && $_[1] ne ':all'
? ref $_[1] ? @$src{ @{ $_[1] } }
: $src->{ $_[1] }
: values %$src;
}
return $src;
}
sub has_remotelist { return defined $_[0]->source(); }
# main method: return the list from the remote source
sub remote_list {
my $class = ref $_[0] || $_[0];
return unless $class->has_remotelist();
# check that we can access the network
eval {
require LWP::UserAgent;
die "version 5.802 required ($LWP::VERSION installed)\n"
if $LWP::VERSION < 5.802;
};
if ($@) {
carp "LWP::UserAgent not available: $@";
return;
}
# figure out the default category (for an instance)
my $category = ref $_[0] ? $_[1] || $_[0]->{category} : $_[1];
# fetch the content
my @items;
my @srcs = $class->sources($category);
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( env_proxy => 1 );
foreach my $src (@srcs) {
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(
ref $src
? ( POST => $src->[0],
[ content_type => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' ],
$src->[1]
)
: ( GET => $src )
);
my $res = $ua->request( $request );
if ( ! $res->is_success() ) {
carp "Failed to get content at $src (" . $res->status_line();
return;
}
# extract, cleanup and return the data
# if decoding the content fails, we just deal with the raw content
push @items =>
$class->extract( $res->decoded_content() || $res->content(),
$category || () );
}
# return unique items
my %seen;
return grep { !$seen{$_}++ } @items;
}
#
# transformation subroutines
#
sub tr_nonword {
my $str = shift;
$str =~ tr/a-zA-Z0-9_/_/c;
$str;
}
sub tr_accent {
my $str = shift;
$str =~ tr{ÀÁÂÃÄÅÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ}
{AAAAAACEEEEIIIINOOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaceeeeiiiinoooooouuuuyy};
return $str;
}
my %utf2asc = (
"æ" => 'ae',
"Æ" => 'AE',
"\xc5\xa0" => 'S',
"\x{0160}" => 'S',
# for pokemons
"\x{0101}" => 'a',
"\x{012b}" => 'i',
"\x{014c}" => 'o',
"\x{014d}" => 'o',
"\x{016b}" => 'u',
"\xe2\x99\x80" => 'female',
"\xe2\x99\x82" => 'male',
"\x{2640}" => 'female',
"\x{2642}" => 'male',
);
my $utf_re = qr/(@{[join( '|', sort keys %utf2asc )]})/;
sub tr_utf8_basic {
my $str = shift;
$str =~ s/$utf_re/$utf2asc{$1}/go;
return $str;
}
1;
__END__
=head1 NAME
Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList - Retrieval of a remote source for a theme
=head1 SYNOPSIS
package Acme::MetaSyntactic::contributors;
use strict;
use Acme::MetaSyntactic::List;
our @ISA = qw( Acme::MetaSyntactic::List );
# data regarding the remote source
our %Remote = (
source =>
extract => sub {
my $content = shift;
my @items =
map { Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList::tr_nonword($_) }
map { Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList::tr_accent($_) }
$content =~ /^\* (.*?)\s*$/gm;
return @items;
},
);
__PACKAGE__->init();
1;
# and the usual documentation and list definition
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This base class adds the capability to fetch a fresh list of items from a
remote source to any theme that requires it.
To be able to fetch remote items, an C<Acme::MetaSyntactic> theme must
define the package hash variable C<%Remote> with the appropriate keys.
The keys are:
=over 4
=item C<source>
The URL where the data is available. The content will be passed to the
C<extract> subroutine.
Because of the various way the data can be made available on the web
and can be used in L<Acme::MetaSyntactic>, this scheme has evolved to
support several cases:
Single source URL:
source => $url
Multiple source URL:
source => [ $url1, $url2, ... ]
For themes with categories, it's possible to attach a URL for each
category:
source => {
category1 => $url1,
category2 => $url2,
...
}
In the case where the C<source> is an array or a hash reference, an
extra case is supported, in case the source data can only be obtained
via a C<POST> request. In that case, the source should be provided as
either:
source => [
[ $url1 => $data1 ],
[ $url2 => $data2 ],
...
]
or
source => {
category1 => [ $url1 => $data1 ],
category2 => [ $url2 => $data2 ],
...
}
It is possible to mix C<POST> and C<GET> URL:
source => [
$url1, # GET
[ $url2 => $data2 ], # POST
...
]
or
source => {
category1 => $url1, # GET
category2 => [ $url2 => $data2 ], # POST
...
}
This means that even if there is only one source and a C<POST> request
must be used, then it must be provided as a list of a single item:
source => [ [ $url => $data ] ]
=item C<extract>
A reference to a subroutine that extracts a list of items from a string.
The string is meant to be the content available at the URL stored in
the C<source> key.
The coderef may receive an optional parameter corresponding to the name of
the category (useful if the coderef must behave differently depending on
the category).
=back
C<LWP::Simple> is used to download the remote data.
All existing C<Acme::MetaSyntactic> behaviours
(C<Acme::MetaSyntactic::List> and C<Acme::MetaSyntactic::Locale> are
subclasses of C<Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList>.
=head1 METHODS
As an ancestor, this class adds the following methods to an
C<Acme::MetaSyntactic> theme:
=over 4
=item remote_list()
Returns the list of items available at the remote source, or an empty
list in case of error.
=item has_remotelist()
Return a boolean indicating if the C<source> key is defined (and therefore
if the theme actually has a remote list).
=item source()
Return the data structure containing the source URLs. This can be quite
different depending on the class: a single scalar (URL), an array
reference (list of URLs) or a hash reference (each value being either
a scalar or an array reference) for themes that are subclasses of
C<Acme::MetaSyntactic::MultiList>.
=item sources( [ $category ] )
Return the list of source URL. The C<$category> parameter can be used
to select the sources for a sub-category of the theme (in the case of
C<Acme::MetaSyntactic::MultiList>).
C<$category> can be an array reference containing a list of categories.
=item extract( $content )
Return a list of items from the C<$content> string. C<$content> is
expected to be the content available at the URL given by C<source()>.
=back
=head1 TRANSFORMATION SUBROUTINES
The C<Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList> class also provides a few helper
subroutines that simplify the normalisation of items:
=over 4
=item tr_nonword( $str )
Return a copy of C<$str> with all non-word characters turned into
underscores (C<_>).
=item tr_accent( $str )
Return a copy of C<$str> will all iso-8859-1 accented characters turned
into basic ASCII characters.
=item tr_utf8_basic( $str )
Return a copy of C<$str> with some of the utf-8 accented characters turned
into basic ASCII characters. This is very crude, but I didn't to bother
and depend on the proper module to do that.
=back
=head1 AUTHOR
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat, C<< <book@cpan.org> >>.
=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Michael Scherer for his help in finding the name of this
module on C<#perlfr>. Welcome in F<CONTRIBUTORS>, Michael! C<:-)>
#perlfr Tue Nov 1 19:33 CET 2005
<@BooK> bon, je sais toujours pas comment appeler mon module moi
<@BooK> AMS::RemoteSource ?
< misc> RemoteListing ?
<@BooK> RemoteList, même
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<Acme::MetaSyntactic>, L<Acme::MetaSyntactic::List>,
L<Acme::MetaSyntactic::Locale>.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2005-2012 Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat, All Rights Reserved.
=head1 LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
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