Padre::Browser(3)

NAME
Padre::Browser -- documentation browser for Padre

DESCRIPTION
Provide an interface for retrieving / generating documentation, resolving terms to documentation (search?) and formatting documentation.

Allow new packages to be loaded and interrogated for the MIME types they can generate documentation for. Provide similar mechanism for registering new documentation viewers and URI schemes accepted for resolving.

NOTE: I think all the method names are wrong. Blast it.

SYNOPSIS
  # Does perlish things by default via 'Padre::Browser::POD'
  my $browser = Padre::Browser->new;
  my $source = Padre::Document->new( filename=>'source/Package.pm' );

  my $docs = $browser->docs( $source );
  # $docs provided by Browser::POD->generate
  #  should be Padre::Browser::Document , application/x-pod

  my $output = $browser->browse( $docs );
  # $output provided by Browser::POD->render
  #  should be Padre::Document , text/x-html

  $browser->load_viewer( 'Padre::Browser::PodAdvanced' );
  # PodAdvanced->render might add an html TOC in addition to
  #  just pod2html

  my $new_output = $browser->browse( $docs );
  # $new_output now with a table of contents

METHODS

  new
Boring constructor, pass nothing. Yet.

  load_provider
Accepts a single class name, will attempt to auto-use the class and interrogate its "provider_for" method. Any MIME types returned will be associated with the class for dispatch to "generate".

Additionally, interrogate class for "accept_schemes" and associate the class with URI schemes for dispatch to "resolve".

  load_viewer
Accepts a single class name, will attempt to auto-use the class and interrogate its "viewer_for" method. Any MIME types returned will be associated with the class for dispatch to "render".

  resolve
Accepts a URI or scalar

  browse

  accept

EXTENDING
  package My::Browser::Doxygen;

  # URI of doxygen:$string or doxygen://path?query
  sub accept_schemes {
      'doxygen',
  }

  sub provider_for {
      'text/x-c++src'
  }

  sub viewer_for {
      'text/x-doxygen',
  }

  sub generate {
      my ($self,$doc) = @_;
      # $doc will be Padre::Document of any type specified
      # by ->provider_for

      # push $doc through doxygen
      # ...
      # that was easy :)

      # You know your own output type, be explicit
      my $response = Padre::Document->new;
      $response->{original_content} = $doxygen->output;
      $response->set_mimetype( 'text/x-doxygen' );
      return $response;
  }

  sub render {
      my ($self,$docs) = @_;
      # $docs will be of any type specified
      # by ->viewer_for;

      ## turn $docs into doxygen(y) html document
      #  ...
      #

      my $response = Padre::Document->new;
      $response->{original_content} = $doxy2html->output;
      $response->set_mimetype( 'text/x-html' );
      return $response;

  }