NAME

TM::Serializable - Topic Maps, abstract trait for stream (map) based input/output drivers

SYNOPSIS

  # step 1) you write an input/output driver for a serialized TM format
  package MyFormat;

     # provides methods
     sub deserialize {
         my $self   = shift; # gets current map
	 my $stream = shift;
         # .... fill the map with content
     }

     sub serialize {
         my $self = shift; # get the map
         # ....
         return ... #serialized content
     }
  1;

  # step 2) construct a subclass of TM using this driver
  package MapWithMyFormat;

    use TM;
    use base qw(TM);
    use Class::Trait qw(TM::Serializable MyFormat);

    1;

  # step 3) use it in your application
  my $tm = new MapWithMyFormat (url => 'file:map.myformat');
  $tm->sync_in; # uses MyFormat to parse the content from the file

DESCRIPTION

This trait implements synchronizable resources using a serialized format. Examples are formats such as AsTMa 1.0, 2.0, LTM, CTM, XTM. The only thing these drivers have to provide are the methods serialize and deserialize which serialize maps to streams and vice-versa.

This trait provides the implementations for source_in and source_out triggering deserialize and serialize, respectively.

INTERFACE

Methods

source_in

Uses the URL attached to the map object to trigger deserialize on the stream content behind the resource. All URLs of LWP are supported. If the URI is io:stdio then content from STDIN is consumed. This content can be consumed more than once (it is buffered internally), so that you can read several times from io:stdin getting the same input.

If the resource URI is io:stdout, then nothing happens.

If the resource URI is null:, then nothing happens.

source_out

This method triggers serialize on the object. The contents will be copied to the resource identified by the URI attached to the object. At the moment, only file: URLs and io:stdout is supported.

If the resource URI is io:stdin, nothing happens.

If the resource URI is null:, nothing happens.

If the resource URI is inline:.. nothing happens.

SEE ALSO

TM, TM::Synchronizable

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Copyright 200[2-6], Robert Barta <drrho@cpan.org>, All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html