1Workflow::Condition(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentationWorkflow::Condition(3)
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NAME

6       Workflow::Condition - Evaluate a condition depending on the workflow
7       state and environment
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VERSION

10       This documentation describes version 1.07 of this package
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SYNOPSIS

13        # First declare the condition in a 'workflow_condition.xml'...
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15        <conditions>
16          <condition
17             name="IsAdminUser"
18             class="MyApp::Condition::IsAdminUser">
19                <param name="admin_group_id" value="5" />
20                <param name="admin_group_id" value="6" />
21          </condition>
22        ...
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24        # Reference the condition in an action of the state/workflow definition...
25        <workflow>
26          <state>
27            ...
28            <action name="SomeAdminAction">
29              ...
30              <condition name="IsAdminUser" />
31            </action>
32            <action name="AnotherAdminAction">
33             ...
34             <condition name="IsAdminUser" />
35            </action>
36            <action name="AUserAction">
37             ...
38             <condition name="!IsAdminUser" />
39            </action>
40          </state>
41          ...
42        </workflow>
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44        # Then implement the condition
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46        package MyApp::Condition::IsAdminUser;
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48        use strict;
49        use base qw( Workflow::Condition );
50        use Workflow::Exception qw( condition_error configuration_error );
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52        __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors( 'admin_group_id' );
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54        sub _init {
55            my ( $self, $params ) = @_;
56            unless ( $params->{admin_group_id} ) {
57                configuration_error
58                    "You must define one or more values for 'admin_group_id' in ",
59                    "declaration of condition ", $self->name;
60            }
61            my @admin_ids = $self->_normalize_array( $params->{admin_group_id} );
62            $self->admin_group_id( { map { $_ => 1 } @admin_ids } );
63        }
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65        sub evaluate {
66            my ( $self, $wf ) = @_;
67            my $admin_ids = $self->admin_group_id;
68            my $current_user = $wf->context->param( 'current_user' );
69            unless ( $current_user ) {
70                condition_error "No user defined, cannot check groups";
71            }
72            foreach my $group ( @{ $current_user->get_groups } ) {
73                return if ( $admin_ids->{ $group->id } );
74            }
75            condition_error "Not member of any Admin groups";
76        }
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DESCRIPTION

79       Conditions are used by the workflow to see whether actions are
80       available in a particular context. So if user A asks the workflow for
81       the available actions she might get a different answer than user B
82       since they determine separate contexts.
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84       NOTE: The condition is enforced by Workflow::State. This means that the
85       condition name must be visible inside of the state definition. If you
86       specify the reference to the condition only inside of the full action
87       specification in a seperate file then nothing will happen. The
88       reference to the condition must be defined inside of the state/workflow
89       specification.
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CONFIGURATION

92       While some conditions apply to all workflows, you may have a case where
93       a condition has different implementations for different workflow types.
94       For example, IsAdminUser may look in two different places for two
95       different workflow types, but you want to use the same condition name
96       for both.
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98       You can accomplish this by adding a type in the condition
99       configuration.
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101        <conditions>
102        <type>Ticket</type>
103          <condition
104             name="IsAdminUser"
105             class="MyApp::Condition::IsAdminUser">
106                <param name="admin_group_id" value="5" />
107                <param name="admin_group_id" value="6" />
108          </condition>
109        ...
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111       The type must match a loaded workflow type, or the condition won't
112       work.  When the workflow looks for a condition, it will look for a
113       typed condition first. If it doesn't find one, it will look for non-
114       typed conditions.
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SUBCLASSING

117   Strategy
118       The idea behind conditions is that they can be stateless. So when the
119       Workflow::Factory object reads in the condition configuration it
120       creates the condition objects and initializes them with whatever
121       information is passed in.
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123       Then when the condition is evaluated we just call "evaluate()" on the
124       condition. Hopefully the operation can be done very quickly since the
125       condition may be called many, many times during a workflow lifecycle --
126       they are typically used to show users what options they have given the
127       current state of the workflow for things like menu options. So keep it
128       short!
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130   Methods
131       To create your own condition you should implement the following:
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133       init( \%params )
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135       This is optional, but called when the condition is first initialized.
136       It may contain information you will want to initialize your condition
137       with in "\%params", which are all the declared parameters in the
138       condition declartion except for 'class' and 'name'.
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140       You may also do any initialization here -- you can fetch data from the
141       database and store it in the class or object, whatever you need.
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143       If you do not have sufficient information in "\%params" you should
144       throw an exception (preferably 'configuration_error' imported from
145       Workflow::Exception).
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147       evaluate( $workflow )
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149       Determine whether your condition fails by throwing an exception. You
150       can get the application context information necessary to process your
151       condition from the $workflow object.
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153       _init
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155       This is a dummy, please refer to "init"
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157   Caching and inverting the result
158       If in one state, you ask for the same condition again, Workflow uses
159       the cached result, so that within one list of available actions, you
160       will get a consistent view. Note that if we would not use caching, this
161       might not necessary be the case, as something external might change
162       between the two evaluate() calls.
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164       Caching is also used with an inverted condition, which you can specify
165       in the definition using "<condition name="!some_condition"">.  This
166       condition returns exactly the opposite of the original one, i.e.  if
167       the original condition fails, this one does not and the other way
168       round. As caching is used, you can model "yes/no" decisions using this
169       feature - if you have both "<condition name="some_condition""> and
170       "<condition name="!some_condition""> in your workflow state definition,
171       exactly one of them will succeed and one will fail - which is
172       particularly useful if you use "autorun" a lot.
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175       Copyright (c) 2003-2007 Chris Winters. All rights reserved.
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177       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
178       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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AUTHORS

181       Jonas B. Nielsen (jonasbn) <jonasbn@cpan.org> is the current
182       maintainer.
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184       Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com>, original author.
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