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Name

SVN::Notify::HTML - Subversion activity HTML notification

Synopsis

Use svnnotify in post-commit:

  svnnotify --repos-path "$1" --revision "$2" \
    --to developers@example.com --handler HTML [options]

Use the class in a custom script:

  use SVN::Notify::HTML;

  my $notifier = SVN::Notify::HTML->new(%params);
  $notifier->prepare;
  $notifier->execute;

Description

This subclass of SVN::Notify sends HTML formatted email messages for Subversion activity, rather than the default plain text.

Prerequisites

In addition to the modules required by SVN::Notify, this class requires:

HTML::Entities

Usage

To use SVN::Notify::HTML, simply follow the instructions in SVN::Notify, but when using svnnotify, specify --handler HTML.

Class Interface

Class Methods

content_type

Returns the content type of the notification message, "text/html". Used to set the Content-Type header for the message.

Instance Interface

Instance Methods

start_body

  $notifier->start_body($file_handle);

This method starts the body of the notification message. It outputs the opening <html>, <head>, <style>, and <body> tags.

output_css

  $notifier->output_css($file_handle);

This method starts outputs the CSS for the HTML message. It is called by start_body(), and which wraps the output of output_css() in the appropriate <style> tags.

output_metadata

  $notifier->output_metadata($file_handle);

This method outputs a definition list containting the metadata of the commit, including the revision number, author (user), and date of the revision. If the viewcvs_url attribute has been set, then the appropriate URL for the revision will be used to turn the revision number into a link.

output_log_message

  $notifier->output_log_message($file_handle);

Outputs the commit log message in <pre> tags, and the label "Log Message" in <h3> tags.

output_file_lists

  $notifier->output_log_message($file_handle);

Outputs the lists of modified, added, deleted, files, as well as the list of files for which properties were changed as unordered lists. The labels used for each group are pulled in from the file_label_map() class method and output in <h3> tags.

end_body

  $notifier->end_body($file_handle);

Closes out the body of the email by outputting the closing </body> and </html> tags. Designed to be called when the body of the message is complete, and before any call to output_attached_diff().

output_diff

  $notifier->output_diff($out_file_handle, $diff_file_handle);

Sends the output of svnlook diff to the specified file handle for inclusion in the notification message. The diff is output between <pre> tags, and Each line of the diff file is escaped by HTML::Entities::encode_entities(). The diff data will be read from $diff_file_handle and printed to $out_file_handle.

See Also

SVN::Notify

To Do

  • Add support for Bugzilla, RT, and Jira links, so that text in the log message that looks like it refers to them will link to them.

  • Turn email addresses and URLs in the log message into actual links.

Author

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2004 Kineticode, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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