NAME

Mojolicious::Plugin::JSONConfig - JSON configuration plugin

SYNOPSIS

  # myapp.json
  {
    "foo"       : "bar",
    "music_dir" : "<%= app->home->rel_dir('music') %>"
  }

  # Mojolicious
  my $config = $self->plugin('JSONConfig');

  # Mojolicious::Lite
  my $config = plugin 'JSONConfig';

  # Reads "myapp.json" by default
  my $config = app->config;

  # Everything can be customized with options
  my $config = plugin JSONConfig => {file => '/etc/myapp.conf'};

DESCRIPTION

Mojolicious::Plugin::JSONConfig is a JSON configuration plugin that preprocesses it's input with Mojo::Template. The application object can be accessed via $app or the app function. You can extend the normal config file myapp.json with mode specific ones like myapp.$mode.json. The code of this plugin is a good example for learning to build new plugins.

OPTIONS

Mojolicious::Plugin::JSONConfig inherits all options from Mojolicious::Plugin::Config and supports the following new ones.

template

  # Mojolicious::Lite
  plugin JSONConfig => {template => {line_start => '.'}};

Attribute values passed to Mojo::Template object used to preprocess configuration files.

METHODS

Mojolicious::Plugin::JSONConfig inherits all methods from Mojolicious::Plugin::Config and implements the following new ones.

parse

  $plugin->parse($content, $file, $conf, $app);

Process content with render and parse it with Mojo::JSON.

  sub parse {
    my ($self, $content, $file, $conf, $app) = @_;
    ...
    $content = $self->render($content, $file, $conf, $app);
    ...
    return $hash;
  }

register

  $plugin->register;

Register plugin in Mojolicious application.

render

  $plugin->render($content, $file, $conf, $app);

Process configuration file with Mojo::Template.

  sub render {
    my ($self, $content, $file, $conf, $app) = @_;
    ...
    return $content;
  }

SEE ALSO

Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, http://mojolicio.us.