NAME
OpenInteract2::Config::Base - Represents a server base configuration
SYNOPSIS
# Sample base configuration
website_dir /path/to/mysite
config_type ini
config_class OpenInteract2::Config::IniFile
config_dir conf
config_file server.ini
package_dir pkg
# Open an existing base config
my $bc = OpenInteract2::Config::Base->new({
website_dir => '/path/to/mysite' });
my $bc = OpenInteract2::Config::Base->new({
filename => '/path/to/mysite/conf/base-alt.conf' });
# Create a new one and write it with the default filename
my $bc = OpenInteract2::Config::Base->new;
$bc->website_dir( '/path/to/mysite' );
$bc->config_type( 'ini' );
$bc->config_class( 'OpenInteract2::Config::IniFile' );
$bc->config_dir( 'conf' );
$bc->config_file( 'server.ini' );
$bc->package_dir( 'pkg' );
$bc->write;DESCRIPTION
A base configuration enables you to easily bootstrap an OpenInteract server configuration with just a little information.
METHODS
Class Methods
new( [ \%params ] )
Creates a new base config object. You can initialize it with as many parameters as you like if you are creating one from scratch.
You can also pass in one of:
- filename
- website_dir
And the constructor will read values from filename or the filename returned by create_filename() with website_dir. The constructor will also set the filename property to the file from which the values were read.
Returns: A OpenInteract2::Config::Base object.
read_config( $filename )
Reads configuration values from $filename and returns the configured key/value pairs. When reading in the file we sskip all blank lines as well as lines beginning with a '#' for comments. Extra space is stripped from the beginning and ending of all keys and values.
Returns: Hashref of config values from $filename.
create_website_filename( $website_directory )
Creates a typicaly configuration filename given $website_directory. This is:
$website_directory/BASE_CONF_DIR/BASE_CONF_FILEwhere BASE_CONF_DIR and BASE_CONF_FILE are from OpenInteract2::Constants.
An exception is thrown if $directory is not provided. We do not check whether $directory is a valid directory.
Returns: a potential filename for a base config object
create_filename( $directory )
Creates a typical configuration filename given $directory. This is:
$directory/BASE_CONF_FILEwhere BASE_CONF_FILE is from OpenInteract2::Constants.
An exception is thrown if $directory is not provided. We do not check whether $directory is a valid directory.
Returns: a potential filename for a base config object
Object Methods
initialize( \%params )
You will probably never call this as it is only used from the constructor.
Returns: a OpenInteract2::Config::Base object with relevant properties from \%params set.
clean_dir( $property_name )
Remove the trailing '/' from the directory specified by $property_name. Sets the property in the object and returns the cleaned directory.
Example:
$bc->clean_dir( 'config_dir' );
$bc->clean_dir( 'website_dir' );Returns: the cleaned directory.
get_server_config_file()
Puts together the properties 'website_dir', 'config_dir' and 'config_file' to create a fully qualified filename.
Returns: full filename for the server config.
save_config()
Writes the configured values from the object to a file. If you do not set a filename before calling this the method will create one for you using create_filename() and the value from the website_dir property.
If you do not have all the properties defined the method will throw an exception.
Returns: the filename to which the configuration was written.
PROPERTIES
website_dir: Root directory of the website
config_type: Type of configuration site is using
config_class: Class used to read server configuration
config_dir: Directory where configuration is kept, relative to website_dir
config_file: Name of configuration file in config_dir
package_dir: Directory where packages are kept, relative to website_dir.
filename: Location of base_configuration file. Not written out to the base configuration file.
BUGS
None known.
TO DO
Nothing known.
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Chris Winters. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHORS
Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com>