NAME

AxKit::App::TABOO::Data::MediaType - MediaType Data objects for TABOO

SYNOPSIS

  use AxKit::App::TABOO::Data::MediaType;
  $type = AxKit::App::TABOO::Data::MediaType->new(@dbconnectargs);
  $type->load(limit => {mimetype => 'text/html'});

DESCRIPTION

This contains a simple class for MIME Types as defined by IANA.

METHODS

This class implements only one method and reimplements two, in addition to the constructor, the rest is inherited from AxKit::App::TABOO::Data.

new(@dbconnectargs)

The constructor. Nothing special.

load(what => fields, limit => {mimetype => value, [...]})

Nothing very different from other load methods. You would usually load an object by specifying the mimetype as in the above example.

populate($args)

The populate method is reimplemented, to deal well with MIME::Type objects. Its interface is unchanged, however.

mimetype

Will return a MIME::Type object with the loaded MIME Type.

STORED DATA

The data is stored in named fields, and for certain uses, it is good to know them. If you want to subclass this class, you might want to use the same names, see the documentation of AxKit::APP::TABOO::Data for more about this. These are the names of the stored data of this class:

• mimetype

  The IANA-registered MIME types.

• name

  An expanded name intended for human consumption.

• uri

  Creating new media types seems like a long and burdensome process. I was hoping that some day, also media types will be identified by URIs. I don't know if there is any progress on that, but I reserve this field in the hope. Also, in the Semantic Web you'd like to identify things and their relationships with URIs, so we might as well have a field.

XML representation

The write_xml() method, implemented in the parent class, can be used to create an XML representation of the data in the object. The above names will be used as element names. The xmlelement(), xmlns() and xmlprefix() methods can be used to set the name of the root element, the namespace URI and namespace prefix respectively. Usually, it doesn't make sense to change the default namespace or prefix, that are

• http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/software/TABOO/NS/MediaType/Output

• type

However, the root element may change depending on what kind of mediatype we have. The default is mediatype.

FORMALITIES

See AxKit::App::TABOO.