NAME
XML::Compile::Dumper - Translate Schema or WSDL to code
INHERITANCE
SYNOPSIS
# create readers and writers or soap things
my $reader = $schema->compile(READER => '{myns}mytype');
my $writer = $schema->compile(WRITER => ...);
# then dump them into a package
my $dumper = XML::Compile::Dumper->new
(package => 'My::Package', filename => 'My/Package.pm');
$dumper->freeze(foo => $reader, bar => $writer);
$dumper->close;
# later, they can get recalled using
use My::Package;
my $hash = foo($xml);
my $doc = bar($doc, $xml);
DESCRIPTION
This module simplifies the task of saving and loading pre-compiled translators. Schema's can get huge, and when you are not creating a daemon to do the XML communication, you may end-up compiling and interpreting these large schemas often, just to be able to process simple data-structures.
Based on the excellent module Data::Dump::Streamer, this module helps you create standard Perl packages which contain the reader and writer code references.
WARNING: this feature was introduced in release 0.17. Using perl 5.8.8, libxml 2.6.26, XML::LibXML 2.60, and Data::Dump::Streamer 2.03, Perl complains about "PmmREFCNT_dec: REFCNT decremented below 0! during global destruction."
when the tests are run. This bug can be anywhere. Therefore, these tests are disabled by default in t/TestTools.pm. If you have time, could you please run the tests with $skip_dumper = 0;
and report the results to the author?
METHODS
Constructors
$obj->close
Finalize the produced file. This will be called automatically if the objects goes out-of-scope.
XML::Compile::Dumper->new(OPTIONS)
Create an object which will collect the information for the output file. You have to specify either a filehandle
or a filename
. A filehandle will be closed after processing.
Option --Default
filehandle undef
filename undef
package <required>
. filehandle => IO::Handle
. filename => FILENAME
The file will be written using utf8 encoding, using IO::File. If you want something else, open your filehandle first, and provide that as argument.
. package => PACKAGE
The name-space which will be used: it will produce a package
line in the output.
Accessors
$obj->file
Returns the output file-handle, which you may use to add extensions to the module.
Producers
$obj->footer(FILEHANDLE)
$obj->freeze(PAIRS|HASH)
Produce the dump for a group of code references, which will be made available under a normal subroutine name. This method can only be called once.
$obj->header(FILEHANDLE, PACKAGE)
Prints the header text to the file.
DIAGNOSTICS
Error: either filename or filehandle required
Error: freeze can only be called once
The various closures may have related variables, and therefore need to be dumped in one go.
Error: freeze needs PAIRS or a HASH
Error: package name required
The perl module which is produced is cleanly encapsulating the produced program text in a perl package name-space. The name has to be provided.
Error: value with $name is not a code reference
SEE ALSO
This module is part of XML-Compile distribution version 0.57, built on November 05, 2007. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/xml-compile/
LICENSE
Copyrights 2006-2007 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html