1Config::MVP::Slicer(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentationConfig::MVP::Slicer(3)
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NAME

6       Config::MVP::Slicer - Extract embedded plugin config from parent config
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VERSION

9       version 0.303
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SYNOPSIS

12         my $slicer = Config::MVP::Slicer->new({
13           config => $parent->config,
14         });
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16         # extract a hashref from the parent config without modifying the plugin
17         my $plugin_config = $slicer->slice($plugin);
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19         # from plugin bundles:
20         my $plugin_spec = ['Name', 'Package::Name', {default => 'config'}];
21         # update the hashref
22         $slicer->merge($plugin_spec);
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24         # with object instances:
25         my $plugger = App::Plugin::Plugger->new({some => 'config'});
26         # update 'rw' attributes
27         $slicer->merge($plugger);
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DESCRIPTION

30       This can be used to extract embedded configurations for other plugins
31       out of larger (parent) configurations.
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33       A example where this can be useful is plugin bundles (see
34       Config::MVP::Assembler::WithBundles).
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36       A bundle loads other plugins with a default configuration that works
37       most of the time, but sometimes you wish you could customize the
38       configuration for one of those plugins without having to remove the
39       plugin from the bundle and re-specify it separately.
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41         # mvp config file
42         [@MyBundle]
43         Other::Plugin.setting = new value
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45       Now you can accept customizations to plugins into your bundle config
46       and separate them out using this module.
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ATTRIBUTES

49   config
50       This is the main/parent configuration hashref that contains embedded
51       plugin configurations.
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53   match_name
54       This is coderef that determines if a configuration line matches a
55       plugin's name.
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57       It can be customized by passing an alternate subroutine reference to
58       the constructor.
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60       The sub will receive two arguments:
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62       ·   The plugin name portion of the configuration line
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64       ·   The name of the plugin being worked on (provided to "slice", for
65           instance).
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67       The default returns true if the current plugin name matches the name
68       from the config line regardless of any leading "@Bundle/" prefixes in
69       the plugin name (as this is a common convention for bundles).
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71       Obviously if the "@Bundle/" prefix is specified in the configuration
72       then it is required to be there for the default sub to match (but
73       multiple other "@Bundle/" prefixes will be allowed before it).
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75         # configuration line: "Foo.attr = value"
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77         $slicer->match_name("Foo", "Foo");            # true
78         $slicer->match_name("Foo", "@Bar/Foo");       # true
79         $slicer->match_name("Foo", "Bar");            # false
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81         # configuration line: "@Bar/Foo.attr = value"
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83         $slicer->match_name("@Bar/Foo", "Foo");           # false
84         $slicer->match_name("@Bar/Foo", "@Bar/Foo");      # true
85         $slicer->match_name("@Bar/Foo", "@Baz/@Bar/Foo"); # true
86         $slicer->match_name("@Bar/Foo", "@Baz/Foo");      # false
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88       Subclasses can define "_build_match_name" (which should return a "sub")
89       to overwrite the default.
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91   match_package
92       This works like "match_name" except that the configuration line is
93       compared to the plugin's package (class).
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95       The default returns true if the two values are equal and false
96       otherwise.
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98       If you want to match by package rather than name and you expand
99       packages with (for example) a string prefix you may need to set this to
100       something like:
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102         match_package => sub { rewrite_prefix($_[0]) eq $_[1] }
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104       Subclasses can define "_build_match_package" (which should return a
105       "sub") to overwrite the default.
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107   prefix
108       Regular expression that should match at the beginning of a key before
109       the module name and attribute:
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111         # prefix => 'dynamic\.'
112         # { 'dynamic.Module::Name.attr' => 'value' }
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114       This can be a string or a compiled regular expression ("qr//").
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116       The default is no prefix (empty string '').
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118   separator
119       A regular expression that will capture the package name in $1 and the
120       attribute name in $2.
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122       The default ("(.+?)\.(.+?)")  separates plugin name from attribute name
123       with a dot:
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125         'Module::Name.attribute'
126         '-Plugin.attr'
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128       NOTE: The regexp should not be anchored since "separator_regexp" uses
129       it as the middle piece of a larger regexp (to add "prefix" and the
130       possible array bracket suffix).  Also beware of using a regexp that
131       greedily matches the array bracket suffix as that can confuse things as
132       well.
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METHODS

135   separator_regexp
136       Returns a compiled regular expression ("qr//") combining "prefix",
137       "separator", and the possible trailing array specification ("\[.*?\]").
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139   slice
140         $slicer->slice($plugin);
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142       Return a hashref of the config arguments for the plugin determined by
143       $plugin.
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145       This is a slice of the "config" attribute appropriate for the plugin
146       passed to the method.
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148       Starting with a config hashref of:
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150         {
151           'APlug:attr1'   => 'value1',
152           'APlug:second'  => '2nd',
153           'OtherPlug:attr => '0'
154         }
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156       Passing a plugin instance of 'APlug' (or an arrayref of "['APlug',
157       'Full::Package::APlug', {}]") would return:
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159         {
160           'attr1'   => 'value1',
161           'second'  => '2nd'
162         }
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164   merge
165         $slicer->merge($plugin, \%opts);
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167       Get the config slice (see "slice"), then attempt to merge it into the
168       plugin.
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170       If $plugin is an arrayref the hashref will be modified.  If it is an
171       object it's attributes should be writable ('rw').
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173       This will append to array references if it was specified as an array or
174       if a preexisting value is an arrayref.
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176       Returns the modified $plugin for convenience.
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178       Possible options:
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180       ·   "slice" - A hashref like that returned from "slice".  If not
181           present, "slice" will be called.
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183   plugin_info
184         $slicer->plugin_info($plugin);
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186       Used by other methods to normalize the information about a plugin.
187       Returns a list of "($name, $package, \%config)".
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189       If $plugin is an arrayref it will simply dereference it.  This can be
190       useful for processing the results of plugin bundles.
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192       If $plugin is an instance of a plugin that has a "plugin_name" method
193       it will construct the list from that method, "ref", and the instance
194       itself.
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CONFIGURATION SYNTAX

197       Often configurations come from an "ini" file and look like this:
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199         [PluginName]
200         option = value
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202       This gets converted to a hashref:
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204         PluginName->new({ option => 'value' });
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206       To embed configuration for other plugins:
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208         [@BigBundle]
209         bundle_option = value
210         Bundled::Plugin.option = other value
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212       The simple 'bundle_option' attribute is for @BigBundle, and the bundle
213       can slice out the "Bundled::Plugin" configuration and merge it in to
214       that plugin's configuration.
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216       Prefixes can be used (see "prefix").  In this example the prefix is set
217       as "plug.".
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219         [@Foo]
220         plug.Bundled::Plugin.attr = value
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222       Due to limitations of this dynamic passing of unknown options
223       (otherwise known as a hack) values that are arrays cannot be declared
224       ahead of time by the bundle.  You can help out by specifying that an
225       attribute should be an array:
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227         [@Bar]
228         Baz.quux[0] = part 1
229         Baz.quux[1] = part 2
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231       This is required because each line will end up in a hashref:
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233         { "quux[0]" => "part 1", "quxx[1]" => "part 2" }
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235       The subscripts inside the brackets are used for sorting but otherwise
236       ignored.  The "slice" method will sort the keys (alphabetically) to
237       produce:
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239         { quux => ["part 1", "part 2"] }
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241       For simplicity the keys are sorted alphabetically because "quux[1.9]"
242       and "quux[1.10]" probably won't sort the way you intended anyway, so
243       just keep things simple:
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245         [@Bundle]
246         Plug.attr[0] = part 1
247         Plug.attr[1] = part 2
248         Plug.other[09] = part 1
249         Plug.other[10] = part 2
250         Plug.alpha[a] = part 1
251         Plug.alpha[b] = part 2
252         Plug.alpha[bc] = part 3
253         Plug.single[] = subscript not required; only used for sorting
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SUPPORT

256   Perldoc
257       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
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259         perldoc Config::MVP::Slicer
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261   Websites
262       The following websites have more information about this module, and may
263       be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use
264       your favorite search engine to discover more resources.
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266       ·   MetaCPAN
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268           A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in
269           HTML format.
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271           <http://metacpan.org/release/Config-MVP-Slicer>
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273   Bugs / Feature Requests
274       Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to
275       "bug-config-mvp-slicer at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
276       <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Config-MVP-Slicer>.
277       You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by
278       the system.
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280   Source Code
281       <https://github.com/rwstauner/Config-MVP-Slicer>
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283         git clone https://github.com/rwstauner/Config-MVP-Slicer.git
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AUTHOR

286       Randy Stauner <rwstauner@cpan.org>
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289       This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Randy Stauner.
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291       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
292       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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296perl v5.28.0                      2017-09-04            Config::MVP::Slicer(3)
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