use strict;
use warnings;
package Pod::Eventual;
{
$Pod::Eventual::VERSION = '0.094001';
}
# ABSTRACT: read a POD document as a series of trivial events
use Mixin::Linewise::Readers 0.102;
use Carp ();
sub read_handle {
my ($self, $handle, $arg) = @_;
$arg ||= {};
my $in_pod = $arg->{in_pod} ? 1 : 0;
my $current;
LINE: while (my $line = $handle->getline) {
if ($in_pod and $line =~ /^=cut(?:\s*)(.*?)(\n)\z/) {
my $content = "$1$2";
$in_pod = 0;
$self->handle_event($current) if $current;
undef $current;
$self->handle_event({
type => 'command',
command => 'cut',
content => $content,
start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
});
next LINE;
}
if ($line =~ /\A=[a-z]/i) {
if ($current and not $in_pod) {
$self->handle_nonpod($current);
undef $current;
}
$in_pod = 1;
}
if (not $in_pod) {
$current ||= {
type => 'nonpod',
start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
content => '',
};
$current->{content} .= $line;
next LINE;
}
if ($line =~ /^\s*$/) {
if ($current and $current->{type} ne 'blank') {
$self->handle_event($current);
$current = {
type => 'blank',
content => '',
start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
};
}
} elsif ($current and $current->{type} eq 'blank') {
$self->handle_blank($current);
undef $current;
}
if ($current) {
$current->{content} .= $line;
next LINE;
}
if ($line =~ /^=([a-z]+\S*)(?:\s*)(.*?)(\n)\z/i) {
my $command = $1;
my $content = "$2$3";
$current = {
type => 'command',
command => $command,
content => $content,
start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
};
next LINE;
}
$current = {
type => 'text',
content => $line,
start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
};
}
if ($current) {
my $method = $current->{type} eq 'blank' ? 'handle_blank'
: $current->{type} eq 'nonpod' ? 'handle_nonpod'
: 'handle_event';
$self->$method($current) if $current;
}
return;
}
sub handle_event {
Carp::confess("handle_event not implemented by $_[0]");
}
sub handle_nonpod { }
sub handle_blank { }
1;
__END__
=pod
=head1 NAME
Pod::Eventual - read a POD document as a series of trivial events
=head1 VERSION
version 0.094001
=head1 SYNOPSIS
package Your::Pod::Parser;
use base 'Pod::Eventual';
sub handle_event {
my ($self, $event) = @_;
print Dumper($event);
}
=head1 DESCRIPTION
POD is a pretty simple format to write, but it can be a big pain to deal with
reading it and doing anything useful with it. Most existing POD parsers care
about semantics, like whether a C<=item> occurred after an C<=over> but before
a C<back>, figuring out how to link a C<< LE<lt>E<gt> >>, and other things like
that.
Pod::Eventual is much less ambitious and much more stupid. Fortunately, stupid
is often better. (That's what I keep telling myself, anyway.)
Pod::Eventual reads line-based input and produces events describing each POD
paragraph or directive it finds. Once complete events are immediately passed
to the C<handle_event> method. This method should be implemented by
Pod::Eventual subclasses. If it isn't, Pod::Eventual's own C<handle_event>
will be called, and will raise an exception.
=head1 METHODS
=head2 read_handle
Pod::Eventual->read_handle($io_handle, \%arg);
This method iterates through the lines of a handle, producing events and
calling the C<handle_event> method.
The only valid argument in C<%arg> (for now) is C<in_pod>, which indicates
whether we should assume that we are parsing pod when we start parsing the
file. By default, this is false.
This is useful to behave differently when reading a F<.pm> or F<.pod> file.
B<Important:> the handle is expected to have an encoding layer so that it will
return text, not bytes, on reads.
=head2 read_file
This behaves just like C<read_handle>, but expects a filename rather than a
handle. The file will be assumed to be UTF-8 encoded.
=head2 read_string
This behaves just like C<read_handle>, but expects a string containing POD
text rather than a handle.
=head2 handle_event
This method is called each time Pod::Evental finishes scanning for a new POD
event. It must be implemented by a subclass or it will raise an exception.
=head2 handle_nonpod
This method is called each time a non-POD segment is seen -- that is, lines
after C<=cut> and before another command.
If unimplemented by a subclass, it does nothing by default.
=head2 handle_blank
This method is called at the end of a sequence of one or more blank lines.
If unimplemented by a subclass, it does nothing by default.
=head1 EVENTS
There are four kinds of events that Pod::Eventual will produce. All are
represented as hash references.
=head2 Command Events
These events represent commands -- those things that start with an equals sign
in the first column. Here are some examples of POD and the event that would be
produced.
A simple header:
=head1 NAME
{ type => 'command', command => 'head1', content => "NAME\n", start_line => 4 }
Notice that the content includes the trailing newline. That's to maintain
similarity with this possibly-surprising case:
=for HTML
We're actually still in the command event, here.
{
type => 'command',
command => 'for',
content => "HTML\nWe're actually still in the command event, here.\n",
start_line => 8,
}
Pod::Eventual does not care what the command is. It doesn't keep track of what
it's seen or whether you've used a command that isn't defined. The only
special case is C<=cut>, which is never more than one line.
=cut
We are no longer parsing POD when this line is read.
{
type => 'command',
command => 'cut',
content => "\n",
start_line => 15,
}
Waiving this special case may be an option in the future.
=head2 Text Events
A text event is just a paragraph of text, beginning after one or more empty
lines and running until the next empty line (or F<=cut>). In Perl 5's standard
usage of Pod, text content that begins with whitespace is a "verbatim"
paragraph, and text content that begins with non-whitespace is an "ordinary"
paragraph.
Pod::Eventual doesn't care.
Text events look like this:
{
type => 'text',
content => "a string of text ending with a\n",
start_line => 16,
}
=head2 Blank events
These events represent blank lines (or many blank lines) within a Pod section.
Blank events look like this:
{
type => 'blank',
content => "\n\n\n\n",
start_line => 21,
}
=head2 Non-Pod events
These events represent non-Pod segments of the input.
Non-Pod events look like this:
{
type => 'nonpod',
content => "#!/usr/bin/perl\nuse strict;\n\nuse Acme::ProgressBar\n\n",
start_line => 1,
}
=head1 AUTHOR
Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Ricardo SIGNES.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
=cut