Zoidberg::PluginHash(3)

NAME
Zoidberg::PluginHash - Magic plugin loader

SYNOPSIS
        use Zoidberg::PluginHash;
        my %plugins;
        tie %plugins, q/Zoidberg::PluginHash/, $shell;
        $plugins{foo}->bar();

DESCRIPTION
Documentation about Zoidberg's plugin mechanism will be provided in an other document. FIXME tell where exactly.

This module hides some plugin loader stuff behind a transparent "tie" interface. You should regard the tied hash as a simple hash with object references. You can NOT store objects in the hash, all stored values are expected to be either a filename or a hash with meta data.

The $shell object is expected to be a hash containing at least the array "$shell->{settings}{data_dirs}" which contains the search path for plugin meta data. Config data for plugins is located in "$shell->{settings}{plugin_name}". Commands and events as defined by the plugins are stored in "$shell->{commands}" and "$shell->{events}". These two hashes are expected to be tied with class Zoidberg::DispatchTable.

Zoidberg::PluginHash depends on Zoidberg::Utils for reading files of various content types. Also it has special bindings for initialising Zoidberg::Fish objects.

AUTHOR
Jaap Karssenberg || Pardus [Larus] <pardus@cpan.org>

Copyright (c) 2003 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
Zoidberg, Zoidberg::Utils, Zoidberg::Fish, Zoidberg::DispatchTable