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NAME

Apache2::Translation::_base - The Apache2::Translation provider interface

DESCRIPTION

A translation provider must implement the following interface. It is free to support more functions.

Methods

new( NAME=>VALUE, ... )

the constructor. It is called once from the master Apache during its configuration.

child_init

This method is optional. If defined it is called from a PerlChildInitHandler and can be used to do some initializations. The DB provider connects here to the database and decides to use a singleton or not.

start

This method is called at start of each uri translation. The DB provider checks the cache here.

stop

is called after each uri translation.

fetch( $key, $uri, $with_notes )

is called to fetch a list of blocks. The result is a list of arrays:

([block, order, action],
 [block, order, action],
 ...)

If the adminstration WEB interface is to be used fetch must return a list of:

([block, order, action, id],
 [block, order, action, id],
 ...)

where id is a unique key.

If the $with_notes parameter is true fetch is called from the admin interface and wants to fetch also notes. In this case the return value is a list like this:

([block, order, action, id, note],
 [block, order, action, id, note],
 ...)

Notes are comments on actions for the user of the admin interface. They are not evaluated otherwize.

The following interface is optional. It has to be implemented if the provider is to be used also with the administration WEB interface.

can_notes

returns true if a provider supports notes in its current configuration.

list_keys

returns a sorted list of known keys.

list_keys_and_uris( $key )

$key is a string.

The function returns a sorted list of [KEY, URI] pairs. If $key is empty all pairs are returned. Otherwise only pairs where $key eq KEY are returned.

begin
commit
rollback

A change conducted via the WEB interface is a sequence of update, insert or delete operations. Before it is started begin is called. If there has no error occured commit is called otherwise rollback. commit must save the changes to the storage. rollback must cancel all changes.

update( [@old], [@new] )
insert( [@new] )
delete( [@old] )

All these functions return something >0 on success. @old is a list of KEY, URI, BLOCK, ORDER, ID that specifies an existing action. If there is no such action the functions must return 0. @new is a list of KEY, URI, BLOCK, ORDER, ACTION that is to be inserted or has to replace an existing action.

The following interface is optional.

clear

deletes all entries from the provider. Is to be called within a begin - commit wrapper. Returns boolean.

iterator

returns a function reference that can be used the following way to step all entries currently hold by the provider.

my $iterator=$other->iterator;
while( my $el=$iterator->() ) {
  # $el is an array ref as expected by insert().
}

The following interface is implemented by Apache2::Translation::_base itself and can be used.

append( $other_provider )

Expects a provider object that implements the iterator function. append then insert()s all elements of $other_provider.

dump( $format, $filehandle )

Requires the iterator function to be implemented and dumps all elements formatted according to $format to $filehandle.

Both parameters are optional. Standard $filehandle is STDOUT, standard format is:

######################################################################
%{KEY} & %{URI} %{BLOCK}/%{ORDER}/%{ID}
%{paction> ;ACTION}
%{pnote> ;NOTE}

$format is an arbitrary string that contains substrings of the form

%{flags NAME}

where NAME is on of KEY, URI, BLOCK, ORDER, ACTION, NOTE or ID. These substrings are then replaced by the values for KEY, etc.

flags is optional. It is a semicolon separated list of strings. If given it must also be separated from NAME by a semicolon.

Currently 2 flags are known:

  • p string

    Trailing spaces are cut from the current value. Then all occurences of \r?\n are replaced by \nstring. Also, string is inserted at start if the current value.

    Example:

    Suppose an ACTION holds a multilined value:

    PerlHandler: sub {
  my $r=shift;
  $r->content_type( 'text/plain' );
  $r->print( "OK\n" );
  return 0;
}

    Then %{paction> ;ACTION} will be formatted as:

    action> PerlHandler: sub {
action>   my $r=shift;
action>   $r->content_type( 'text/plain' );
action>   $r->print( "OK\n" );
action>   return 0;
action> }

  • s l|t

    sl strips off leading spaces and st trailing spaces.

AUTHOR

Torsten Foertsch, <torsten.foertsch@gmx.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2008 by Torsten Foertsch

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.