NAME

Meta::Pdmt::Node - A PDMT graph node.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Node.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.10

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Pdmt::Node qw();
my($object)=Meta::Pdmt::Node->new();
my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This is a PDMT graph node. The node implements all the basic methods that child nodes need to override.

FUNCTIONS

BEGIN()
build($$)
uptodate($$)
TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

This is an initializer for the class. It takes care for a: 1. default constructor for the class. 2. accessor get_ set_ methods for the attributes name,rule. 3. print method for the class.

build($$)

This method actually builds a node. In this generic node it does nothing.

uptodate($$)

This method should be overriden by child nodes. This method should return whether the file is uptodate. This basic implementation returns true always.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV spelling and papers
0.01 MV perl packaging
0.02 MV md5 project
0.03 MV database
0.04 MV perl module versions in files
0.05 MV movies and small fixes
0.06 MV thumbnail user interface
0.07 MV more thumbnail issues
0.08 MV website construction
0.09 MV web site automation
0.10 MV SEE ALSO section fix

SEE ALSO

Meta::Class::MethodMaker(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.