NAME

Weather::Bug::Quantity - Abstraction for a value with units.

VERSION

This document describes Weather::Bug::Quantity version 0.25

SYNOPSIS

use Weather::Bug::Quantity;

my $q = Weather::Bug::Quantity( -value => 5.1, -units => 'm' );

print "Distance: $q\n" unless $q->is_null();

DESCRIPTION

This class represents numeric values that have associated units. It can also represent a null object for cases where no value was available.

INTERFACE

This class supports one factory method and a set of accessor methods.

Factory Method

from_xml

This class method expects a single XML::LibXML node method with the value being the value of the node and the units specified in units attribute.

Accessor Methods

value

The numeric value represented by the object.

units

The units of the Quantity returned as a string.

is_null

Returns a false value if the Quantity has a value, a true value otherwise.

stringify

Convert the quantity into a printable string (value followed by units) unless the value is null. If the Quantity is null, return N/A.

DIAGNOSTICS

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Weather::Bug requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Moose, XML::LibXML.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-weather-weatherbug@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

G. Wade Johnson <wade@anomaly.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2008, G. Wade Johnson <wade@anomaly.org>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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