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package Pod::Perldocs;
use strict;
require Pod::Perldoc;
our ($VERSION);
$VERSION = '0.17';
################################################################
# Change the following to reflect your setup
###############################################################
sub grand_search_init {
my($self, $pages, @found) = @_;
@found = $self->SUPER::grand_search_init($pages, @found);
return @found if @found;
print STDERR "Searching on remote pod server ...\n";
my $filename;
if ($filename = get_lwp($self, $pages->[0])) {
push @found, $filename;
return @found;
}
elsif ($filename = get_soap($self, $pages->[0])) {
push @found, $filename;
return @found;
}
else {
return @found;
}
}
sub get_lwp {
my ($self, $mod) = @_;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("Pod/Perldocs 0.16 ");
push @{ $ua->requests_redirectable }, 'POST';
# Create a request
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $pod_server);
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content("mod=$mod");
# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);
# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
my ($fh, $filename) = $self->new_tempfile();
print $fh $res->content;
return $filename;
}
else {
print STDERR "Remote server returned status code: " . $res->status_line . "\n";
return;
}
}
sub get_soap {
my ($self, $mod) = @_;
my $soap = make_soap() or return; # no SOAP::Lite available
my $result = $soap->get_doc($mod);
defined $result && defined $result->result or do {
print STDERR "No matches found there either.\n";
return;
};
my $lines = $result->result();
unless ($lines and ref($lines) eq 'ARRAY') {
print STDERR "Documentation not found there either.\n";
return;
}
my ($fh, $filename) = $self->new_tempfile();
print $fh @$lines;
return $filename;
}
sub make_soap {
unless (eval { require SOAP::Lite }) {
print STDERR "SOAP::Lite is unavailable to make remote call\n";
return undef;
}
return SOAP::Lite
->uri($soap_uri)
->proxy($soap_proxy,
options => {compress_threshold => 10000})
->on_fault(sub { my($soap, $res) = @_;
print STDERR "SOAP Fault: ",
(ref $res ? $res->faultstring
: $soap->transport->status),
"\n";
return undef;
});
}
1;
=head1 NAME
Pod::Perldocs - view remote pod via Pod::Perldoc
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This is a drop-in replacement for C<perldoc> based on
C<Pod::Perldoc>. Usage is the same, except in the case
when documentation for a module cannot be found on the
local machine, in which case a query (via LWP or SOAP::Lite) will
be made to a remote pod repository and, if the documentation is
found there, the results will be displayed as usual.
=head1 NOTE
The values of C<$pod_server>, C<$soap_uri> and
C<$soap_proxy> at the top of this script reflect
the location of the remote pod repository.
=head1 SERVER
See the I<CPAN-Search-Lite> project on SourceForge at
for the software needed to set up a remote pod
repository used by C<perldocs>.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<Pod::Perldoc>.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
This software is copyright 2004,2009 by Randy Kobes
E<lt>r.kobes@uwinnipeg.caE<gt>. Usage and redistribution
is under the same terms as Perl itself.
=head1 CURRENT MAINTAINER
Kenichi Ishigaki E<lt>ishigaki@cpan.orgE<gt>
=cut