NAME
Date::Holidays::Abstract - abstract class for Date::Holidays::* modules
SYNOPSIS
package Date::Holidays::NN;
use base qw(Date::Holidays::Abstract);
sub holidays {
...
}
sub is_holiday {
...
}VERSION
This POD describes version 0.05 of Date::Holidays::Abstract
DESCRIPTION
This module is an abstract class intended for Date::Holidays::*
The goal is to have all the existing and future modules implement the same methods, so they will have a uniform usage and can be used in polymorphic context or can be easily adapted into the Date::Holidays class.
If you want to use Date::Holidays::Abstract and want to comply with my suggestions to the methods that ought to be implemented, you should implement:
- is_holiday
- holidays
is_holiday
Should at least take 3 arguments:
The return value from is holiday is either a 1 or 0 indicating true of false, indicating whether the specified date is a holiday in the given country's national calendar.
Additional arguments are at the courtesy of the author of the using module/class.
holidays
Should at least take one argument:
Returns a reference to a hash, where the keys are date represented as four digits. The two first representing month (01-12) and the last two representing day (01-31).
The value for the key in question is the local name for the holiday indicated by the day. The resultset will of course vary depending on the given country's national holiday.
Additional arguments are at the courtesy of the author of the using module/class.
--
Date::Holidays uses the requirements defined by this module and this module can therefor be used with success in conjunction with this.
This is an alternative to a SUPER class. I have given a lot of thought to programming a SUPER class, but since creating a super class for a bunch of modules implementing handling of national holidays, an abstract class seemed a better choice.
A proposed SUPER class for Date::Holidays::* is however implemented see: Date::Holidays::Super implement is_holiday and holidays and expect these to be overloaded.
Overloading would be necessary since nothing intelligent can be said about holidays without specifying a nationality (a part from holidays being nice but too few), and the implemented methods would be empty bodies returning empty result sets.
So I am more for an abstract class and as stated I consider this class an experiment and I have implemented Date::Holidays::Super as an alternative.
Suggestions for changes and extensions are more than welcome.
SUBROUTINES/METHODS
This class does not implement any methods, it is a abstract class.
DIAGNOSTICS
This class does not implement any exceptions or error, it is a abstract class.
CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
This class does not implement or require any special environment or configuration apart from what is mentioned in DEPENDENCIES
DEPENDENCIES
This class is subclassed from Class::Virtual, but holds not direct dependencies apart from that class/module.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
None known to the author
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
None known to the author
SEE ALSO
BUGS
Please report issues via CPAN RT:
L<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Date-Holidays-Abstract>or by sending mail to
L<bug-Date-Holidays-Abstract@rt.cpan.org>TEST/COVERAGE
This module is currently at 100% test coverage
AUTHOR
Jonas B. Nielsen, (jonasbn) - <jonasbn@cpan.org>
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Date-Holidays-Abstract is (C) by Jonas B. Nielsen, (jonasbn) 2004-2014
Date-Holidays-Abstract is released under the Artistic License See: (http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html) for details.