Workflow::Persister(3pm)

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NAME

6       Workflow::Persister - Base class for workflow persistence
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VERSION

9       This documentation describes version 1.09 of this package
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SYNOPSIS

12        # Associate a workflow with a persister
13        <workflow type="Ticket"
14                  persister="MainDatabase">
15        ...
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17        # Declare a persister
18        <persister name="MainDatabase"
19                   class="Workflow::Persister::DBI"
20                   driver="MySQL"
21                   dsn="DBI:mysql:database=workflows"
22                   user="wf"
23                   password="mypass"/>
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25        # Declare a separate persister
26        <persister name="FileSystem"
27                   class="Workflow::Persister::File"
28                   path="/path/to/my/workflow"/>
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DESCRIPTION

31       This is the base class for persisting workflows. It does not implement
32       anything itself but actual implementations should subclass it to ensure
33       they fulfill the contract.
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35       The job of a persister is to create, update and fetch the workflow
36       object plus any data associated with the workflow. It also creates and
37       fetches workflow history records.
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SUBCLASSING

40   Methods
41       create_workflow( $workflow )
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43       Stub that warns that the method should be overwritten in the derived
44       Persister. Since this is a SUPER class.
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46       Generate an ID for the workflow, serialize the workflow data (ID and
47       state) and set the ID in the workflow.
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49       update_workflow( $workflow )
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51       Stub that warns that the method should be overwritten in the derived
52       Persister. Since this is a SUPER class.
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54       Update the workflow state.
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56       fetch_workflow( $workflow_id )
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58       Stub that warns that the method should be overwritten in the derived
59       Persister. Since this is a SUPER class.
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61       Retrieve the workflow data corresponding to $workflow_id. It not found
62       return undef, if found return a hashref with the data.
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64       create_history( $workflow, @history )
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66       Stub that warns that the method should be overwritten in the derived
67       Persister. Since this is a SUPER class.
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69       Serialize all objects in @history for later retrieval.
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71       fetch_history( $workflow )
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73       Stub that warns that the method should be overwritten in the derived
74       Persister. Since this is a SUPER class.
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76       The derived class method should return a list of Workflow::History
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79       get_create_user( $workflow )
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81       When creating an initial Workflow::History record to insert into the
82       database, the return value of this method is used for the value of the
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85       Override this method to change the value from the default, "n/a".
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87       get_create_description( $workflow )
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89       When creating an initial Workflow::History record to insert into the
90       database, the return value of this method is used for the value of the
91       "description" field.
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93       Override this method to change the value from the default, "Create new
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98       When creating an initial Workflow::History record to insert into the
99       database, the return value of this method is used for the value of the
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102       Override this method to change the value from the default, "Create
103       workflow".
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105       assign_generators( \%params )
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107       Assigns proper generators based on intialization, see "init"
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109       fetch_extra_workflow_data ( $workflow )
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111       A stub that warns that the method should be overwritten in the derived
112       Persister. Since this is a SUPER class.
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114       commit_transaction
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116       Commit the current transaction if the persister supports transactions.
117       This stub does not have to be overridden. It is not executed if
118       autocommit is on.
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122       Roll back the current transaction if the persister supports
123       transactions.  This stub does not have to be overridden. It is not
124       executed if autocommit is on.
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128       Method to initialize persister based on configuration.
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130       init_random_generators( \%params )
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132       Initializes random id generators, takes the following named parameters:
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134       ·   length, of random id to be generated
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136       Returns two identical random id generator objects in list context.
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138       init_uuid_generators( \%params )
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140       Initializes UUID generators, takes no parameters
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142       Returns two identical UUID generator objects in list context.
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TODO

145       ·   refactor init_random_generators, returns two similar objects?
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147       ·   refactor init_uuid_generators, returns two similar objects?
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149       ·   refactor init_uuid_generators, takes no parameters, even though we
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COPYRIGHT

158       Copyright (c) 2003-2007 Chris Winters. All rights reserved.
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160       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
161       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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AUTHORS

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