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Module-Starter-Plugin-CGIApp-0.21
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NAME

Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApp - template based module starter for CGI apps.

SYNOPSIS

use Module::Starter qw(
    Module::Starter::Simple
    Module::Starter::Plugin::Template
    Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApp
);

Module::Starter->create_distro(%args);

ABSTRACT

This is a plugin for Module::Starter that builds you a skeleton CGI::Application module with all the extra files needed to package it for CPAN. You can customize the output using HTML::Template.

VERSION

Version 0.21

DESCRIPTION

This module subclasses Module::Starter::Plugin::Template which in turn subclasses Module::Starter::Simple. This document only describes the methods which are overriden from those modules or are new.

Only developers looking to extend this module need to read this. If you just want to use Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApp, read the docs for cgiapp-starter or titanium-starter instead.

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_LICENSE( )

This method creates a LICENSE file in the distribution's directory which can hold the distribution's license terms.

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_t( @modules )

This method creates a bunch of *.t files. @modules is a list of all modules in the distribution.

create_tmpl( )

This method takes all the template files ending in .html (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 lib/Foo/Bar/templates.

Note the files will just be copied over not rendered.

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.

Changes_guts

Implements the creation of a Changes file.

LICENSE_guts

Implements the creation of a LICENSE file.

MANIFEST_SKIP_guts

Implements the creation of a MANIFEST.SKIP file.

perlcriticrc_guts

Implements the creation of a perlcriticrc file.

server_pl_guts

Implements the creation of a server.pl file.

t_guts

Implements the creation of test files.

tmpl_guts

Implements the creation of template files.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-module-starter-plugin-cgiapp at rt.cpan.org, or 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

Jaldhar H. Vyas, <jaldhar at braincells.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008, Consolidated Braincells Inc. All Rights Reserved.

This distribution is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version, or

b) the Artistic License version 2.0.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.

SEE ALSO

cgiapp-starter, titanium-starter, Module::Starter, Module::Starter::Simple, Module::Starter::Plugin::Template. CGI::Application, Titanium, HTML::Template