NAME

Footprintless::Plugin - The base class for footprintless plugins

VERSION

version 1.24

DESCRIPTION

This class serves as a base class for plugins. It defines the mandatory interface that a plugin must implement. Plugins add methods to the factory itself at runtime. For example:

    package Foo::Plugin;

    use parent qw(Footprintless::Plugin);

    sub foo {
        require Foo;
        return Foo->new();
    }

    sub factory_methods {
        my ($self) = @_;
        return {
            foo => sub {
                return $self->foo(@_);
            }
        }
    }

    package Foo;

    sub new() {
        return bless({}, shift);
    }

    sub bar {
        print("BAR");
    }

Then they can be registered with a factory instance:

    $factory->register_plugin(Foo::Plugin->new());

Or, they can be registered via configuration in the footprintless.plugins entity:

    # $FPL_HOME/config/footprintless.pm
    return {
        plugins => [
            'Foo::Plugin',
            'Bar::Plugin'
        ],
        'Foo::Plugin' => {
            # optional config
        }
        'Bar::Plugin' => {
            # optional config
        }
    };

Then you can use the methods directly on the footprintless instance:

    my $footprintless = Footprintless->new();
    my $foo = $footprintless->foo();

If a key with the same name as the plugin is present in the footprintless entity, then the entire hashref will be set as $self-{config}> on the plugin instance during construction. You can then override the _init() method to do configuration based initialization.

If you want to add commands, just add a module under the package returned by command_packages (defaults to ref($self) . '::Command'):

    package Foo::Plugin::Command::foo
    use Footprintless::App -command;
    
    sub execute {
        my ($self, $opts, $args) = @_;

        my $foo = $self->app()->footprintless()->foo();

        $foo->bar();
    }

Then your command will be availble from the fpl command:

    $> fpl foo
    BAR

CONSTRUCTORS

new()

Creates a new plugin.

METHODS

command_packages()

Returns a list of packages to scan for commands.

factory_methods()

Returns a hash full of factory methods. The key will be used as the method name that gets registered with the factory. Its value must be a reference to a sub.

AUTHOR

Lucas Theisen <lucastheisen@pastdev.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Lucas Theisen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

SEE ALSO

Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.

• Footprintless

cpanm Footprintless

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Footprintless