NAME

Pipeline::Production - wrapper for production objects

SYNOPSIS

use Pipeline::Production;

my $pp = Pipeline::Production->new();

$pp->contents( $object );
my $production = $pp->contents();

DESCRIPTION

The Pipeline::Production class acts as a wrapper around any scalar (and therfore object, or reference) that a Pipeline is to consider as a production. A production object will terminate the pipeline apon receipt and cause the cleanup segments to be executed.

METHODS

new()

The new method constructs a fresh Pipeline::Production object and returns it. In the process it calls the init() method.

init()

The init method is called at construction time to perform any pre-use initialization on the object.

contents( [ SCALAR ] )

The contents method gets or sets the contents of the production, ie, the actual production itself.

contains( [ SCALAR ] )

A synonym for contents

SEE ALSO

Pipeline

AUTHOR

James A. Duncan <jduncan@fotango.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003 Fotango Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

This software is released under the same terms as Perl itself.