NAME

Config::General::Hierarchical::Dump - Hierarchical Generic Config Dumper Module

SYNOPSIS

Simple use:

$
$ cat example.conf
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -MConfig::General::Hierarchical::Dump
variable1 value
variable2
<node>
 key value
</node>
$
$ chmod 755 example.conf
$ ./example.conf
node->key = 'value'
variable1 = 'value'
variable2 = ''
$
$

Full use:

package MyConfig::Dump;
#
use base 'Config::General::Hierarchical::Dump';
use MyConfig;
#
sub parser {
 return 'MyConfig';
}

DESCRIPTION

This module provides an easy way to dump configuration files written for Config::General::Hierarchical.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

import

Implicitally called by -M perl option, it reads the configuration file itself, dumps it to standard output and exits.

parser

Returns the class name to be used to parse the file, by default Config::General::Hierarchical. If you exetend Config::General::Hierarchical with so many customization that you need to use your own class to parse the file, you can extend Config::General::Hierarchical::Dump as well and simply redefine this method to return your own class name and use this second new class as parameter of -M perl option.

CMD LINE PARAMETERS

-c, --check

This can beusefull to find immediatelly which are eventaul configuration variables not respecting the syntax constraint

-f, --file

Makes the source file (foreach variable) to be printed.

-l, --fixed-length

Formats the output as fixed characters length.

-h, --help

Prints an help screen and exits.

-j, --json

Prints the output as a json string.

BUGS AND INCOMPATIBILITIES

Please report.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Daniele Ricci

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

AUTHOR

Daniele Ricci <icc |AT| cpan.org>

VERSION

0.05