NAME

Apache2::DirBasedHandler - Directory based Location Handler helper

VERSION

This documentation refers to <Apache2::DirBasedHandler> version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

  package My::Thingy

  use strict
  use Apache2::DirBasedHandler
  our @ISA = qw(Apache2::DirBasedHandler);
  use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(:common);

  sub root_index {
      my $self = shift;
      my ($r,$uri_args,$args) = @_;

      if (@$uri_args) {
          return Apache2::Const::NOT_FOUND;
      }

      return (
          Apache2::Const::OK,
          qq[this is the index],
          qq[text/plain; charset=utf-8]
      );
  }

  sub super_page {
      my $self = shift;
      my ($r,$uri_args,$args) = @_;

      return (
          Apache2::Const::OK,
          qq[this is $location/super and all it's contents],
          qq[text/plain; charset=utf-8]
      );
  }

  sub super_dooper_page {
      my $self = shift;
      my ($r,$uri_args,$args) = @_;

      return (
          Apache2::Const::OK,
          qq[this is $location/super/dooper and all it's contents],
          qq[text/plain; charset=utf-8]
      );
  }

  1;

DESCRIPTION

This module is designed to allow people to more quickly implement uri to function style handlers. This module is intended to be subclassed.

A request for

  $r->location . qq[/foo/bar/baz/]

will be served by the first of the following functions with is defined

  foo_bar_baz_page
  foo_bar_page
  foo_page
  root_index

METHODS

The following methods (aside from 'handler') are meant to be overridden in your subclass if you want to modify its behavoir.

handler

handler is the guts of DirBasedHandler. It provides the basic structure of the module, turning the request uri into an array, which is then turned into possible function calls.

init

init is used to include objects or data you want to be passed into your page functions. To be most useful it should return a hash reference. The default implementation returns a reference to an empty hash.

parse_uri

parse_uri takes an Apache::RequestRec (or derived) object, and returns a reference to an array of all the non-slash parts of the uri. It strips repeated slashes in the same manner that they would be stripped if you do a request for static content.

uri_to_function

uri_to_function converts an Apache2::RequestRec (or derived) object and an array reference and returns and returns the name of a function to handle the request it's arguments describe.

root_index

root_index handles requests for $r->location, and any requests that have no other functions defined to handle them. You must subclass it (or look silly)

set_debug

set_debug enables or disables debug output to the apache error log

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires modperl 2 (http://perl.apache.org), and libapreq (http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/) which must be installed seperately.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

There are no known incompatibilities for this module.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

There are no known bugs in this module. Please report any problems through

http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Apache2-DirBasedHandler

AUTHOR

Adam Prime (adam.prime@utoronto.ca)

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2008 by Adam Prime (adam.prime@utoronto.ca). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

This module 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.

cpanm Apache2::DirBasedHandler

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Apache2::DirBasedHandler