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CGI-Application-Plugin-ConfigAny-0.01
/ CGI::Application::Plugin::ConfigAny

NAME

CGI::Application::Plugin::ConfigAny - Add Config::Any Support to CGI::Application

VERSION

Version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

In your CGI::Application-based module:

use base 'CGI::Application';
use CGI::Application::Plugin::ConfigAny;

sub cgiapp_init {
    my $self = shift;

    # Set config file and other options
    $self->config->init(
        configdir => '/path/to/configfiles',
        files     => [ 'app.conf' ],
        name      => 'main',
        params    => {
            ## passed to Config::Any->load_files;
            ## see Config::Any for valid params
        }
    );
}

Later...

## get a complete config section as a hashref
$self->config->section( 'sectionname' );

## get a single config param
$self->config->param( 'sectionname.paramname' );

DESCRIPTION

This module allows to use Config::Any for config files inside a CGI::Application based application.

This module is "work in progress" and subject to change without warning!

(Config::Any provides a facility for Perl applications and libraries to load configuration data from multiple different file formats. It supports XML, YAML, JSON, Apache-style configuration, Windows INI files, and even Perl code.)

METHODS

init

Initializes the plugin.

$self->config->init(
    configdir => '/path/to/configfiles',
    files     => [ 'app.conf' ],
);

Valid params:

configdir SCALAR

Path where the config files reside in.

files ARRAY

A list of files to load.

name SCALAR

You can use more than one configuration at the same time by using config names. For example:

$self->config->init(
    name   => 'database',
    files  => [ 'db.conf' ],
);
$self->config->init(
    name   => 'template',
    files  => [ 'tpl.conf' ],
);

...

my $connection_options  = $self->config('database')->section('connection');
my $template_config     = $self->config('template')->param('file');
params HASHREF

Options to pass to Config::Any->load_files(). See Config::Any for details.

config

This method is exported to your C::A based application as an accessor to the configuration methods.

param

Retrieve a value from your configuration.

Examples:

$self->config->section('mysection')->param('mysetting');
# set the section to 'mysection' before retrieving 'mysetting'

$self->config->param('mysection.mysetting');
# more convenient way to do the same as above

$self->config->param('mysetting');
# if no section name is given, the name of the last section
# named by ->section() or ->param(<section>.<attribute>) syntax
# is used; this may change in future, so don't rely on it!

section

Retrieve a complete section from your configuration, or set the name of the current "default section" for later use with ->param().

my $hash = $self->config->section('mysection');

getall

Get complete configuration as a hashref.

DEBUGGING

This module provides some internal debugging. Any debug messages go to STDOUT, so beware of enabling debugging when running in a web environment. (This will end up with "Internal Server Error"s in most cases.)

There are two ways to enable the debug mode:

In the module

Find line

$CGI::Application::Plugin::ConfigAny::DEBUG = 0;

and set it to any "true" value. ("1", "TRUE", ... )

From outside the module

Add this line before calling new:

$CGI::Application::Plugin::ConfigAny::DEBUG = 1;

AUTHOR

Bianka Martinovic, <Bianka.Martinovic at materna.de>

BUGS

None I'am aware of, but as I said above, this is still under development.

SUPPORT

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

perldoc CGI::Application::Plugin::ConfigAny

You can also look for information at:

DEPENDENCIES

Config::Any

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This module was slightly inspired by CGI::Application::Plugin::Context. See http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CGI::Application::Plugin::Config::Context for details.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Bianka Martinovic, all rights reserved.

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