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Dispatch-Declare-0.0.8
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/ Dispatch::Declare

NAME

Dispatch::Declare - Build a hash based dispatch table declaratively

VERSION

This document describes Dispatch::Declare version 0.0.8

SYNOPSIS

  use Dispatch::Declare;

  my $action = 'ADDUSER';

  declare REPAIRDB => sub {
      print 'This is a REPAIRDB test' . "\n";
  };

  declare ADDUSER => sub {
      print 'This is a ADDUSER test' . "\n";
  };

  run $action;

DESCRIPTION

Large if-else statement can be trouble. Or as the PBP calls them cascading ifs. I also
find that large hash/dispatch tables can lead to trouble too. If you make a syntax error the line given
could be at the end of the control structure. I thought most of the problems could be solved with
a little syntax.

INTERFACE

There are only two subroutines exported, declare and run.
declare is where you setup you dispatch table.
declare
declare KEY1 => sub {
    ...
};

declare KEY2 => sub {
    ...
};
declare_once
Only allow a key to be set once.

declare_once KEY1 => sub { # Set KEY1
    ...
};

declare_once KEY1 => sub { # Error
    ...
};
undeclare
undeclare 'KEY1';

Now KEY1 have been remove from the table.
run
Then to call your action:
my $key = 'KEY1';
run $key

That all there is to it.
DEFAULT key If you make one of your keys DEFAULT it will be executed if no other keys match.
declare DEFAULT => sub {
    ...
};

run; # runs DEFAULT action

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Dispatch::Declare requires no configuration files or environment variables.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

1. The value part of the declare must be a code ref. 2. Only one dispatch table can be used.

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-dispatch-declare@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Robert Boone <rlb@cpan.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Robert Boone <rlb@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

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

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