NAME
CGI::Application::Structured::Tools::Starter - template based module starter for CGI::Application::Structured apps.
SYNOPSIS
use Module::Starter qw(
Module::Starter::Simple
Module::Starter::Plugin::Template
CGI::Application::Structured::Tools::Starter
);
Module::Starter->create_distro(%args);
ABSTRACT
The prefered method for using this module is via the "cas-starter.pl" in scripts script.
VERSION
Version 0.015
DESCRIPTION
This is a plugin for Module::Starter that builds a skeleton CGI::Application::Structured module with all the extra files needed to package it for CPAN. It also generates - an CGI::Application::Structured controller base class for your modules - a customized CGI::Application::Dispatch subclass - a preconfigured development config file - a server.pl that runs out of the box - helper scripts to generate Controller modules subclasses - a helper script to generate DBIx::Class schema and result classes.
This module is inspired Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApp by Jaldhar H. Vyas .
METHODS
new ( %args )
This method calls the new
supermethod from Module::Starter::Plugin::Template and then initializes the template store and renderer. (See templates
and renderer
below.)
create_distro ( %args )
This method works as advertised in Module::Starter.
create_t( @modules )
This method creates a bunch of *.t files. @modules is a list of all modules in the distribution.
render( $template, \%options )
This method is subclassed from Module::Starter::Plugin::Template.
It is given an HTML::Template and options and returns the resulting document.
Data in the Module::Starter
object which represents a reference to an array @foo is transformed into an array of hashes with one key called $foo_item
in order to make it usable in an HTML::Template TMPL_LOOP
. For example:
$data = ['a'. 'b', 'c'];
would become:
$data = [
{ data_item => 'a' },
{ data_item => 'b' },
{ data_item => 'c' },
];
so that in the template you could say:
<tmpl_loop data>
<tmpl_var data_item>
</tmpl_loop>
renderer ()
This method is subclassed from Module::Starter::Plugin::Template but doesn't do anything as the actual template is created by render
in this implementation.
templates ()
This method is subclassed from Module::Starter::Plugin::Template.
It reads in the template files and populates the object's templates attribute. The module template directory is found by checking the MODULE_TEMPLATE_DIR
environment variable and then the config option template_dir
.
create_MANIFEST_SKIP()
This method creates a MANIFEST.SKIP
file in the distribution's directory so that unneeded files can be skipped from inclusion in the distribution.
create_perlcriticrc ()
This method creates a perlcriticrc
in the distribution's test directory so that the behavior of perl-critic.t
can be modified.
create_server_pl ()
This method creates server.pl
in the distribution's root directory.
create_debug_sh ()
This method creates debug.sh
in the distribution's root directory. Starts werver with environment set to display ::Plugin::DebugScreen on error
create_config_pl ()
This method creates config-test.pl
in the distribution's root/config directory.
create_create_pl ()
This method creates create_controller.pl
in the distribution's app/script directory.
create_tmpl ()
This method takes all the template files ending in .tmpl (representing HTML::Template's and installs them into a directory under the distro tree. For instance if the distro was called Foo-Bar
, the templates would be installed in Foo-Bar/templates
.
Note the files will just be copied over not rendered.
create_submodule ()
Implements a default "Home" subclass of the main module. This module will be auto configured as the default module in the Dispatch subclass.
create_submodule ()
Implements a default controller baseclass (main module).
create_dbic_pl ()
This method creates create_dbic_schema.pl
in the distribution's root/script/ directory.
create_dispatch ()
Implements a CGI::Application::Dispatch subclass for this app in the lib directory under the main modules directory.
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
AUTHOR
Gordon Van Amburg, <vanamburg at cpan.org>
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This module borrows heavily, is verily grafted from, <Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApp> by Jaldhar H. Vyas, <jaldhar at braincells.com>
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
CGI::Application::Structured-starter, CGI::Application::Structured, CGI::Application, Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApplication