NAME

Rubric::Entry - a single entry made by a user

VERSION

version 0.150

DESCRIPTION

This class provides an interface to Rubric entries. It inherits from Rubric::DBI, which is a Class::DBI class.

COLUMNS

id          - a unique identifier
link        - the link to which the entry refers
username    - the user who made the entry
title       - the title of the link's destination
description - a short description of the entry
body        - a long body of text for the entry
created     - the time when the entry was first created
modified    - the time when the entry was last modified

RELATIONSHIPS

link

The link attribute returns a Rubric::Link.

uri

The uri attribute returns the URI of the entry's link.

username

The user attribute returns a Rubric::User.

tags

Every entry has_many tags that describe it. The tags method will return the tags, and the entrytags method will return the Rubric::EntryTag objects that represent them.

recent_tags_counted

This method returns a reference to an array of arrayrefs, each a (tag, count) pair for tags used on the week's 50 most recent entries.

INFLATIONS

created

modified

The created and modified columns are stored as seconds since epoch, but inflated to Time::Piece objects.

METHODS

query(\%arg)

The arguments to query provide a set of abstract constraints for the query. These are sent to Rubric::Entry::Query, which builds an SQL query and returns the result of running it. (Either a list or an Iterator is returned.)

(The built-in Class::DBI search method can't handle this kind of search.)

user   - entries for this User
tags   - entries with these tags (arrayref)
link   - entries for this Link
urimd5 - entries for the Link with this md5 sum
has_body    - whether entries must have bodies (T, F, or undef)
has_link    - whether entries must have a link (T, F, or undef)
(time spec) - {created,modified}_{before,after,on}
              limits entries by time; given as a complete or partial
              time and date string in the form "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM"

set_new_tags(\%tags)

This method replaces all entry's current tags with the new set of tags.

tags_from_string

my $tags = Rubric::Entry->tags_from_string($string);

This (class) method takes a string of tags, delimited by whitespace, and returns an array of the tags, throwing an exception if it finds invalid tags.

Valid tags (shouldn't this be documented somewhere else instead?) may contain letters, numbers, underscores, colons, dots, and asterisks. Hyphens me be used, but not as the first character.

markup

This method returns the value of the entry's @markup tag, or _default if there is no such tag.

body_as

my $formatted_body = $entry->body_as("html");

This method returns the body of the entry, formatted into the given format. If the entry cannot be rendered into the given format, an exception is thrown.

AUTHOR

Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Ricardo SIGNES.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.