NAME

Config::Model::Backend::Any - Virtual class for other backends

VERSION

version 2.080

SYNOPSIS

package Config::Model::Backend::Foo ;
use Mouse ;
use Log::Log4perl qw(get_logger :levels);

extends 'Config::Model::Backend::Any';

# optional
sub suffix { 
  return '.foo';
}

# mandatory
sub read {
   my $self = shift ;
   my %args = @_ ;

   # args are:
   # root       => './my_test',  # fake root directory, userd for tests
   # config_dir => /etc/foo',    # absolute path 
   # file       => 'foo.conf',   # file name
   # file_path  => './my_test/etc/foo/foo.conf' 
   # io_handle  => $io           # IO::File object
   # check      => yes|no|skip

   return 0 unless defined $args{io_handle} ; # or die?

   foreach ($args{io_handle}->getlines) {
       chomp ;
       s/#.*// ;
       next unless /\S/; # skip blank line

       # $data is 'foo=bar' which is compatible with load 
       $self->node->load(step => $_, check => $args{check} ) ;
   }
   return 1 ;
}

# mandatory
sub write {
   my $self = shift ;
   my %args = @_ ;

   # args are:
   # root       => './my_test',  # fake root directory, userd for tests
   # config_dir => /etc/foo',    # absolute path 
   # file       => 'foo.conf',   # file name
   # file_path  => './my_test/etc/foo/foo.conf' 
   # io_handle  => $io           # IO::File object
   # check      => yes|no|skip

   my $ioh = $args{io_handle} ;

   foreach my $elt ($self->node->get_element_name) {
       my $obj =  $self->node->fetch_element($elt) ;
       my $v   = $self->node->grab_value($elt) ;

       # write value
       $ioh->print(qq!$elt="$v"\n!) if defined $v ;
       $ioh->print("\n")            if defined $v ;
   }

   return 1;
}

no Mouse ;
__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable ;

DESCRIPTION

This Mouse class is to be inherited by other backend plugin classes

See "read callback" in Config::Model::BackendMgr and "write callback" in Config::Model::BackendMgr for more details on the method that must be provided by any backend classes.

CONSTRUCTOR

new ( node => $node_obj, name => backend_name )

The constructor should be used only by Config::Model::Node.

Methods to override

annotation

Whether the backend supports reading and writing annotation (a.k.a comments). Default is 0. Override this method to return 1 if your backend supports annotations.

suffix

Suffix of the configuration file. This method returns undef

read

Read the configuration file. This method must be overridden.

write

Write the configuration file. This method must be overridden.

Methods

node

Return the node (a Config::Model::Node) holding this backend.

show_message( string )

Show a message to STDOUT (unless overridden). Delegated to "show_message( string )" in Config::Model::Instance.

read_global_comments( lines , comment_char)

Read the global comments (i.e. the first block of comments until the first blank or non comment line) and store them as root node annotation. The first parameter (lines) is an array ref containing file lines.

associates_comments_with_data ( lines , comment_char)

This method will extract comments from the passed lines and associate them with actual data found in the file lines. Data is associated with comments preceding or on the same line as the data. Returns a list of [ data, comment ] .

Example:

# Foo comments
foo= 1
Baz = 0 # Baz comments

will return

( [  'foo= 1', 'Foo comments'  ] , [ 'Baz = 0' , 'Baz comments' ] )

write_global_comments( io_handle , comment_char)

Write global comments from configuration root annotation into the io_handle (if defined). Returns the string written to the io_handle.

write_data_and_comments( io_handle , comment_char , data1, comment1, data2, comment2 ...)

Write data and comments in the io_handle (if defined). Comments are written before the data. Returns the string written to the io_handle. If a data is undef, the comment will be written on its own line.

AUTHOR

Dominique Dumont, (ddumont at cpan dot org)

SEE ALSO

Config::Model, Config::Model::BackendMgr, Config::Model::Node, Config::Model::Backend::Yaml,

AUTHOR

Dominique Dumont

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2016 by Dominique Dumont.

This is free software, licensed under:

The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1, February 1999

cpanm Config::Model

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Config::Model