NAME

Data::Manager - The Marriage of Message::Stack & Data::Verifier

VERSION

version 0.10

SYNOPSIS

use Data::Manager;
use Data::Verifier;

my $dm = Data::Manager->new;

# Create a verifier for the 'billing_address'
my $verifier = Data::Verifier->new(
    profile => {
        address1 => {
            required=> 1,
            type    => 'Str'
        }
        # ... more fields
    }
);
$dm->set_verifier('billing_address', $verifier);

# Addresses are the same, reuse the verifier
$dm->set_verifier('shipping_address', $verifier);

my $ship_data = {
    address1 => { '123 Test Street' },
    # ... more
};
my $bill_data => {
    address1 => { '123 Test Street' }
    # ... more
};

$dm->verify('billing_address', $bill_data);
$dm->verify('shipping_address', $ship_data);


# Later...


my $bill_results = $dm->get_results('billing_address');
my $bill_stack = $dm->messages_for_scope('billing_address');


my $ship_results = $dm->get_results('shipping_address');
my $ship_stack = $dm->messages_for_scope('shipping_address');

DESCRIPTION

Data::Manager provides a convenient mechanism for managing multiple Data::Verifier inputs with a single Message::Stack, as well as convenient retrieval of the results of verification.

This module is useful if you have complex forms and you'd prefer to create separate Data::Verifier objects, but want to avoid creating a complex hashref of your own creation to manage things.

It should also be noted that if married with MooseX::Storage, this entire object and it's contents can be serialized. This maybe be useful with Catalyst's flash for storing the results of verification between redirects.

SERIALIZATION

The Data::Manager object may be serialized thusly:

my $ser = $dm->freeze({ format => 'JSON' });

later

my $dm = Data::Manager->thaw($ser, { format => 'JSON' });

This is possible thanks to the magic of MooseX::Storage. All attributes except verifiers are stored. Serialization causes the verifiers attribute to be set to undefined, as those objects are not serializable.

ATTRIBUTES

messages

The Message::Stack object for this manager. This attribute is lazily populated, parsing the Data::Verifier::Results objects. After fetching this attribute any changes to the results will not be reflected in the message stack.

results

HashRef of Data::Verifier::Results objects, keyed by scope.

verifiers

HashRef of Data::Verifier objects, keyed by scope.

METHODS

messages_for_scope ($scope)

Returns a Message::Stack object containing messages for the specified scope.

get_results ($scope)

Gets the Data::Verifier::Results object for the specified scope.

set_results ($scope, $results)

Sets the Data::Verifier::Results object for the specified scope.

success

Convenience method that checks success on each of the results in this manager. Returns false if any are false.

verify ($scope, $data);

Verify the data against the specified scope. After verification the results and messages will be automatically created and stored. The Data::Verifier::Results class will be returned.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Justin Hunter

Jay Shirley

Brian Cassidy

AUTHOR

Cory G Watson gphat@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Cory G Watson.

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