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package Mason;
$Mason::VERSION = '2.23';
use Mason::Interp;
use Mason::PluginManager;
use Mason::Util qw(can_load uniq);
use Method::Signatures::Simple;
use strict;
use warnings;

method new ($class: %params) {

    # Extract plugins and base_interp_class
    #
    my $plugin_specs = delete( $params{plugins} ) || [];
    my $base_interp_class = delete( $params{base_interp_class} )
      || $class->default_base_interp_class;

    # Process plugins and determine real interp_class
    #
    my @plugins = Mason::PluginManager->process_top_plugin_specs($plugin_specs);
    my $interp_class =
      Mason::PluginManager->apply_plugins_to_class( $base_interp_class, 'Interp', \@plugins );

    # Create and return interp
    #
    die "cannot pass mason_root_class directly"
      if exists( $params{mason_root_class} );
    return $interp_class->new(
        mason_root_class => $class,
        plugins          => \@plugins,
        %params
    );
}

method default_base_interp_class ($class:) {
    my @candidates =
      map { join( '::', $_, 'Interp' ) } ( uniq( $class, 'Mason' ) );
    my ($base_class) = grep { can_load($_) } @candidates
      or die sprintf( "cannot load %s for interp", join( ', ', @candidates ) );
    return $base_class;
}

1;

__END__

=pod

=head1 NAME

Mason - Powerful, high-performance templating for the web and beyond

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  foo.mc:
    % my $name = "Mason";
    Hello world! Welcome to <% $name %>.

  #!/usr/local/bin/perl
  use Mason;
  my $mason = Mason->new(comp_root => '...');
  print $mason->run('/foo')->output;

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Mason is a powerful Perl-based templating system, designed to generate dynamic
content of all kinds.

Unlike many templating systems, Mason does not attempt to invent an alternate,
"easier" syntax for templates.  It provides a set of syntax and features
specific to template creation, but underneath it is still clearly and proudly
recognizable as Perl.

Mason is most often used for generating web pages. It has a companion web
framework, L<Poet|Poet>, designed to take maximum advantage of its routing and
content generation features.  It can also be used as the templating layer for
web frameworks such as L<Catalyst|Catalyst::View::Mason2> and
L<Dancer|Dancer::Template::Mason2>.

All documentation is indexed at L<Mason::Manual>.

The previous major version of Mason (1.x) is available under the name
L<HTML::Mason>.

=head1 SUPPORT

The mailing list is C<mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net>. You must be
subscribed to send a message. To subscribe, visit
L<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users>.

You can also visit us at C<#mason> on L<irc://irc.perl.org/#mason>.

Bugs and feature requests will be tracked at RT:

    http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Mason
    bug-mason@rt.cpan.org

The latest source code can be browsed and fetched at:

    http://github.com/jonswar/perl-mason
    git clone git://github.com/jonswar/perl-mason.git

The official Mason website is L<http://www.masonhq.com/>, however it contains
mostly information about L<Mason 1|HTML::Mason>. We're not sure what the future
of the website will be wrt Mason 2.

=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Stevan Little and the L<Moose> team for the awesomeness of Moose,
which motivated me to create a second version of Mason years after I thought I
was done.

Thanks to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa and the L<PSGI/Plack|http://plackperl.org/> team,
who freed me from ever worrying about server backends again.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<HTML::Mason>

=head1 AUTHOR

Jonathan Swartz <swartz@pobox.com>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Jonathan Swartz.

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