NAME

Rubric::Entry::Formatter - a base class for entry body formatters

VERSION

version 0.157

DESCRIPTION

This class serves as a single point of dispatch for attempts to format entry bodies from their native format into rendered output.

PERL VERSION

This code is effectively abandonware. Although releases will sometimes be made to update contact info or to fix packaging flaws, bug reports will mostly be ignored. Feature requests are even more likely to be ignored. (If someone takes up maintenance of this code, they will presumably remove this notice.) This means that whatever version of perl is currently required is unlikely to change -- but also that it might change at any new maintainer's whim.

METHODS

format

my $formatted = Rubric::Entry::Formatter->format(\%arg);

This method accepts a set of named arguments and returns formatted output in the requested format. If it is unable to do so, it throws an exception.

Valid arguments are:

markup - the markup format used to mark up the text (default: _default)
text   - the text that has been marked up and should be formatted (required)
format - the requested output format (required)

Formatting requests are dispatched according to the configuration in markup_formatter.

WRITING FORMATTERS

Writing a formatter should be very simple; the interface is very simple, although it's also very young and so it may change when I figure out the problems in the current implementation.

A formatter must implement an as_FORMAT method for each format to which it claims to be able to output formatted text. When Rubric::Entry::Formatter wants to dispatch text for formatting, it will call that method as follows:

my $formatted = Formatter->as_whatever(\%arg);

The arguments in %arg will be the same as those passed to Rubric::Entry::Formatter.

Actually, the method is found and called via can, so a suitably programmed module can respond to can to allow it to render into all the format it likes -- or at least to claim to.

AUTHOR

Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@semiotic.systems>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Ricardo SIGNES.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.