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Tie-Hash-Attribute-1.06
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/ Tie::Hash::Attribute

NAME

Tie::Hash::Attribute - Just another HTML attribute generator.

SYNOPSIS

 use Tie::Hash::Attribute;

 tie my %tag, 'Tie::Hash::Attribute';
 %tag = (
     table => { border => 0 },
     tr => {
         style => { color => 'red', align => 'right' },
     },
     td => {
         style => {
             align => [qw( left right )],
             color => [qw( red blue green )],
         }
     },
 );

 print $tag{-table};
   # border: 0

 print $tag{-tr};
   # style="align: right; color: red;"

 print $tag{-td} for 1 .. 4;
   # style="align: left; color: red;"',
   # style="align: right; color: blue;"',
   # style="align: left; color: green;"',
   # style="align: right; color: red;"',

 # or emit all attributes at once
 tie my %tr_tag, 'Tie::Hash::Attribute';

 %tr_tag = ( style => {
     align => [qw(left right)],
     color => [qw(red blue green)]
 } );

 print scalar %tr_tag for 1 .. 4;
   # style="align: left; color: red;"
   # style="align: right; color: blue;"
   # style="align: left; color: green;"
   # style="align: right; color: red;"

DESCRIPTION

This module will translate nested hash keys and values into HTML tag attributes that can have ther values automatically rotated.

Hash values can be scalars, arrays, hashes or hashes of hashes.

To emit values as an HTML attribute string, fetch the key with a dash prepended to it:

%hash = ( foo => 1, bar => 2, baz => 3);

print $hash{foo};     # returns 1
print $hash{-foo};    # returns foo="1"

Or access the entire hash as a scalar:

print scalar %hash;
  # foo="1" bar="2" baz="3"

This can be used to aide in the creation of HTML tags:

print '<table>';
for my $row (@rows) {
    printf '<tr%s>', scalar %tr_tag;
    for my $col (@$row) {
        printf '<td%s>%s</td>', scalar %td_tag, $col;
    }
    print '</tr>';
}
print '/<table>';

The decision on which style to apply to a row is deferred to the tied hash. Assign an array reference to the key and each value will be rotated.

%tr_tag = ( class => [qw( odd even )] );

All HTML attribute strings returned will have a leading space. This prevents the client from having to check for the potential of no attributes, which would leave tags with trailing space inside the start tag: <foo ></foo>

As such all attributes values are enclosed in double quotes, not single quotes. Additional rules for keys and values:

  • any attribute with a value of undef will be skipped

  • no case-insenstive matches for attribute names in start tag

  • remove any occurance from keys: " ' > / = and spaces

  • remove any occurance from values: "

ORDERING

Since the internal storage for this package is a hash, ordering of attribute names (for consistancy) can be achieved by specifying a true value for the parameter sorted like so:

tie my %tag, 'Tie::Hash::Attribute', sorted => 1;
%hash = ( foo => 1, bar => 2, baz => 3);
print scalar %hash;
  # bar="2" baz="3" foo="1"

The author wishes to somehow utilize Tie::IxHash to allow the client to force desired order, but tieing a tied hash is tricky. Most of time attribute order is not important, but it can be in a handful of cases. If you run into such a case, please alert the author via a bug report.

SEE ALSO

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Assignment stops at the second nested key, which will use the third as its value:

$tag{foo}{1st}{2nd}{3rd} = '4th';
print $tag{-foo}, "\n";

# yields 1st="2nd: 3rd;"

This is an intended limitation. If there are other keys in the second nested hash, then the first key in alphabetical order wins.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to either

GITHUB

The Github project is https://github.com/jeffa/Tie-Hash-Attribute

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Tie::Hash::Attribute

You can also look for information at:

AUTHOR

Jeff Anderson, <jeffa at cpan.org>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2024 Jeff Anderson.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

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