NAME

Meta::Info::Enum - This is a generic enumerated type that can be parsed from XML.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Enum.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.01

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Info::Enum qw();
my($object)=Meta::Info::Enum->new();
my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This is a classic enumerated type that can be parsed from an XML file.

FUNCTIONS

BEGIN()
new_file($$)
new_modu($$)
is_selected($$$)
TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

This is a bootup method intended to setup the accessor methods for the following attributes: 0. name - name of this enumerated type. 1. description - description of this enumerated type. 2. default - default value for this enumerated type.

new_file($$)

Constructor from an XML/Enum file.

new_modu($$)

Constructor from an XML/Enum module.

is_selected($$$)

Give this method an Enum object and two values. One entered by some outside source and one that your software wants to check it against. The method will return whether they are the same. Why not use eq ? well - this method raises an exception if the value in your source is not part of the enum...:)

TEST($)

This is a testing suite for the Meta::Info::Enum module. This test is should be run by a higher level management system at integration or release time or just as a regular routine to check that all is well.

SUPER CLASSES

Meta::Ds::Ohash(3)

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV teachers project
0.01 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), Meta::Development::Module(3), Meta::Ds::Ohash(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Xml::Parsers::Enum(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.