NAME

Graph::Maker - Create many types of graphs

VERSION

Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

Base class for Graph::Maker::*. Subclasses extend this class and override the init method. The init method is passed the class and the parameters. This uses Class::Factory.

	use strict;
	use warnings;
        use Graph;
	use Graph::Maker;
	use Graph::Maker::Linear; # or import qw/Graph::Maker/;

	my $g = new Graph::Maker('linear', N => 10);
	# work with the graph

SUBCLASSING

The simplest example is the linear graph, nodes i is connected to node i+1. The implimentation can simply be:

package Graph::Maker::Linear;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;
use base qw/Graph::Maker/;
use Graph;

sub init
{
	my ($self, %params) = @_;

	my $N = delete($params{N});

	my $g = new Graph(%params);
	$g->add_path(1..$N);
	return $g;
}

Graph::Maker->add_factory_type( 'linear' => __PACKAGE__ );

1;

A real implimentation should check that N is defined and is valid (the one provided in this package does). It is that simple.

SEE ALSO

Class::Factory

Graph

AUTHOR

Matt Spear, <batman900+cpan at gmail.com>

BUGS

None at the moment...

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-graph-maker at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Graph-Maker. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This package owes a lot to NetworkX, this is something I think is really needed to extend the great Graph module.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Matt Spear, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.