/ 
Meta-0.08
River stage zero No dependents
++
/ Meta::Development::Verbose

NAME

Meta::Development::Verbose - object to inherit verbose objects from.

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: Verbose.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.02

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Development::Verbose qw();
        my($object)=Meta::Development::Verbose->new();
        $object->verbose("Hello, World!\n");

DESCRIPTION

Inherit objects from this one and you get get/set verbose methods and a method "verbose" which prints the string given to it only if verbose is turned on.

The idea is to not write this kind of method again and again in every object which is a drag and to make the code more readable (not full of remarks).

FUNCTIONS

        BEGIN()
        verbose($$)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

This is a setup method for the class which sets up the get_verbose and set_verbose methods.

verbose($$)

Call this method to output some text only if the verbose flag is turned on.

TEST($)

This is a testing suite for the Meta::Development::Verbose module. This test is should be run by a higher level management system at integration or release time or just as a regular routine to check that all is well.

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 move tests to modules
        0.01 MV bring movie data
        0.02 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

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

TODO

-be able to set the verbosity flag on construction according to reading the option from some kind of data base/config file according to the class name which is actually being constructed.