NAME

MasonX::Component - manage mason components

SYNOPSIS

    use MasonX::Component::Interp;

    my $interp = MasonX::Component::Interp->new;
    $interp->exec('/component');

DESCRIPTION

This distribution contains infrastructure to manage systemwide installed mason components. It's intended to be used to install mason components from CPAN and use them in your applications.

This works by registering components at installation time with MasonX::Component::Registry and using MasonX::Component::Interp instead of HTML::Mason::Interp which will automatically pick up all components registered in the registry.

WRITING COMPONENTS

Writing MasonX::Component components is easy. They are just normal CPAN distributions with the following differences:

They contain a directory with mason components which needs to be installed next to the things in lib/.

They need to register their components with MasonX::Registry at installation time.

If you happen to like Module::Install, do the following:

create a component directory

Put all your components in there.

create a component.ini file

This contains meta information of your components:

    [MasonX::Component::YourDistribution]
    priority = 5
    components = foo, bar

depend on MasonX::Component

Makefile.PL:

    requires 'MasonX::Component' => 0;

install and register your components

Makefile.PL:

    mason_component;

This will automatically install files in component and register them with the information in component.ini when you run make install.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Currently MasonX::Component::Interp puts all registered components into the comp_root. A mechanism to only use requested components or exclude certain things is planned but not implemented yet.

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-masonx-component@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

SEE ALSO

HTML::Mason

HTML::Mason::Interp

MasonX::Component::Registry

MasonX::Component::Interp

AUTHOR

Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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