NAME

Any::Template::ProcessDir -- Process a directory of templates

VERSION

version 0.07

SYNOPSIS

use Any::Template::ProcessDir;

# Process templates and generate result files in a single directory
#
my $pd = Any::Template::ProcessDir->new(
    dir => '/path/to/dir',
    process_text => sub {
        my $template = Any::Template->new( Backend => '...', String => $_[0] );
        $template->process({ ... });
    }
);
$pd->process_dir();

# Process templates and generate result files to a separate directory
#
my $pd = Any::Template::ProcessDir->new(
    source_dir => '/path/to/source/dir',
    dest_dir   => '/path/to/dest/dir',
    process_file => sub {
        my $file = $_[0];
        # do something with $file, return content
    }
);
$pd->process_dir();

DESCRIPTION

Recursively processes a directory of templates, generating a set of result files in the same directory or in a parallel directory. Each file in the source directory may be template-processed, copied, or ignored depending on its pathname.

CONSTRUCTOR

Specifying directory/directories

  • If you want to generate the result files in the same directory as the templates, just specify dir.

    my $pd = Any::Template::ProcessDir->new(
        dir => '/path/to/dir',
        ...
    );
  • If you want to generate the result files in a separate directory from the templates, specify source_dir and dest_dir.

    my $pd = Any::Template::ProcessDir->new(
        source_dir => '/path/to/source/dir',
        source_dir => '/path/to/dest/dir',
        ...
    );

Specifying how to process templates

process_file

A code reference that takes the full template filename and the Any::Template::ProcessDir object as arguments, and returns the result string. This can use Any::Template or another method altogether. By default it calls "process_text" on the contents of the file.

process_text

A code reference that takes the template text and the Any::Template::ProcessDir object as arguments, and returns the result string. This can use Any::Template or another method altogether.

Optional parameters

dir_create_mode

Permissions mode to use when creating destination directories. Defaults to 0775. No effect if you are using a single directory.

file_create_mode

Permissions mode to use when creating destination files. Defaults to 0444 (read-only), so that destination files are not accidentally edited.

ignore_files

Coderef which takes a full pathname and returns true if the file should be ignored. By default, all files will be considered.

readme_filename

Name of a README file to generate in the destination directory - defaults to "README". No file will be generated if you pass undef or if you are using a single directory.

template_file_suffix

Suffix of template files in source directory. Defaults to ".src". This will be removed from the destination file name.

Any file in the source directory that does not have this suffix (or "ignore_file_suffix") will simply be copied to the destination.

METHODS

process_dir

Process the directory. If using multiple directories, the destination directory will be removed completely and recreated, to eliminate any old files from previous processing.

SEE ALSO

Any::Template

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Jonathan Swartz.

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