Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2006-11-05 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList - Retrieval of a remote source for a theme

SYNOPSIS

     package Acme::MetaSyntactic::contributors;
     use strict;
     use Acme::MetaSyntactic::List;
     our @ISA = qw( Acme::MetaSyntactic::List );
     
     # data regarding the remote source
     our %Remote = (
         source =>
             'http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-MetaSyntactic/CONTRIBUTORS',
         extract => sub {
             my $content = shift;
             my @items   =
                 map { Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList::tr_nonword($_) }
                 map { Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList::tr_accent($_) }
                 $content =~ /^\* (.*?)\s*$/gm;
             return @items;
         },
     );
 
     __PACKAGE__->init();
 
     1;
 
     # and the usual documentation and list definition
 
 

DESCRIPTION

This base class adds the capability to fetch a fresh list of items from a remote source to any theme that requires it.

To be able to fetch remote items, an "Acme::MetaSyntactic" theme must define the package hash variable %Remote with the appropriate keys.

The keys are:

"source"
The URL where the data is available. This can also be an array reference containing several URLs, whose content will be passed to the "extract" subroutine.
"extract"
A reference to a subroutine that extracts a list of items from a string. The string is meant to be the content available at the URL stored in the "source" key.

"LWP::Simple" is used to download the remote data.

All existing "Acme::MetaSyntactic" behaviours ("Acme::MetaSyntactic::List" and "Acme::MetaSyntactic::Locale" are subclasses of "Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList".

METHODS

As an ancestor, this class adds the following methods to an "Acme::MetaSyntactic" theme:
remote_list()
Returns the list of items available at the remote source, or an empty list in case of error.
has_remotelist()
Return a boolean indicating if the "source" key is defined (and therefore if the theme actually has a remote list).
source()
Return the data structure containing the source URLs. This can be quite different depending on the class: a single scalar (URL), an array reference (list of URLs) or a hash reference (each value being either a scalar or an array reference) for themes that are subclasses of "Acme::MetaSyntactic::MultiList".
sources( [ $category ] )
Return the list of source URL. The $category parameter can be used to select the sources for a sub-category of the theme (in the case of "Acme::MetaSyntactic::MultiList").
extract( $content )
Return a list of items from the $content string. $content is expected to be the content available at the URL given by "source()".

TRANSFORMATION SUBROUTINES

The "Acme::MetaSyntactic::RemoteList" class also provides a few helper subroutines that simplify the normalisation of items:
tr_nonword( $str )
Return a copy of $str with all non-word characters turned into underscores ("_").
tr_accent( $str )
Return a copy of $str will all iso-8859-1 accented characters turned into basic ASCII characters.
tr_utf8_basic( $str )
Return a copy of $str with some of the utf-8 accented characters turned into basic ASCII characters. This is very crude, but I didn't to bother and depend on the proper module to do that.

AUTHOR

Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat, "<book@cpan.org>".

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Michael Scherer for his help in finding the name of this module on "#perlfr". Welcome in CONTRIBUTORS, Michael! ":-)"
     #perlfr Tue Nov  1 19:33 CET 2005
     <@BooK> bon, je sais toujours pas comment appeler mon module moi
     <@BooK> AMS::RemoteSource ?
     < misc> RemoteListing ?
     <@BooK> RemoteList, meme
 
 

SEE ALSO

Acme::MetaSyntactic, Acme::MetaSyntactic::List, Acme::MetaSyntactic::Locale. Copyright 2005-2006 Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat, All Rights Reserved.

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