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use strict;
use warnings;
package Pod::Eventual;
{
  $Pod::Eventual::VERSION = '0.093331';
}
# ABSTRACT: read a POD document as a series of trivial events
use Mixin::Linewise::Readers;

use Carp ();


sub read_handle {
  my ($self, $handle, $arg) = @_;
  $arg ||= {};

  my $in_pod  = $arg->{in_pod} ? 1 : 0;
  my $current;

  LINE: while (my $line = $handle->getline) {
    if ($in_pod and $line =~ /^=cut(?:\s*)(.*?)(\n)\z/) {
      my $content = "$1$2";
      $in_pod = 0;
      $self->handle_event($current) if $current;
      undef $current;
      $self->handle_event({
        type       => 'command',
        command    => 'cut',
        content    => $content,
        start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
      });
      next LINE;
    }

    if ($line =~ /\A=[a-z]/i) {
      if ($current and not $in_pod) {
        $self->handle_nonpod($current);
        undef $current;
      }

      $in_pod = 1;
    }

    if (not $in_pod) {
      $current ||= {
        type       => 'nonpod',
        start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
        content    => '',
      };

      $current->{content} .= $line;
      next LINE;
    }

    if ($line =~ /^\s*$/) {
      if ($current and $current->{type} ne 'blank') {
        $self->handle_event($current);

        $current = {
          type       => 'blank',
          content    => '',
          start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
        };
      }
    } elsif ($current and $current->{type} eq 'blank') {
      $self->handle_blank($current);
      undef $current;
    }

    if ($current) {
      $current->{content} .= $line;
      next LINE;
    }

    if ($line =~ /^=([a-z]+\S*)(?:\s*)(.*?)(\n)\z/i) {
      my $command = $1;
      my $content = "$2$3";
      $current = {
        type       => 'command',
        command    => $command,
        content    => $content,
        start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
      };
      next LINE;
    }

    $current = { 
      type       => 'text',
      content    => $line,
      start_line => $handle->input_line_number,
    };
  }

  if ($current) {
    my $method = $current->{type} eq 'blank'  ? 'handle_blank'
               : $current->{type} eq 'nonpod' ? 'handle_nonpod'
               :                                'handle_event';

    $self->$method($current) if $current;
  }

  return;
}


sub handle_event {
  Carp::confess("handle_event not implemented by $_[0]");
}


sub handle_nonpod { }


sub handle_blank  { }

1;

__END__

=pod

=head1 NAME

Pod::Eventual - read a POD document as a series of trivial events

=head1 VERSION

version 0.093331

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  package Your::Pod::Parser;
  use base 'Pod::Eventual';

  sub handle_event {
    my ($self, $event) = @_;

    print Dumper($event);
  }

=head1 DESCRIPTION

POD is a pretty simple format to write, but it can be a big pain to deal with
reading it and doing anything useful with it.  Most existing POD parsers care
about semantics, like whether a C<=item> occurred after an C<=over> but before
a C<back>, figuring out how to link a C<< LE<lt>E<gt> >>, and other things like
that.

Pod::Eventual is much less ambitious and much more stupid.  Fortunately, stupid
is often better.  (That's what I keep telling myself, anyway.)

Pod::Eventual reads line-based input and produces events describing each POD
paragraph or directive it finds.  Once complete events are immediately passed
to the C<handle_event> method.  This method should be implemented by
Pod::Eventual subclasses.  If it isn't, Pod::Eventual's own C<handle_event>
will be called, and will raise an exception.

=head1 METHODS

=head2 read_handle

  Pod::Eventual->read_handle($io_handle, \%arg);

This method iterates through the lines of a handle, producing events and
calling the C<handle_event> method.

The only valid argument in C<%arg> (for now) is C<in_pod>, which indicates
whether we should assume that we are parsing pod when we start parsing the
file.  By default, this is false.

This is useful to behave differently when reading a F<.pm> or F<.pod> file.

=head2 read_file

This behaves just like C<read_handle>, but expects a filename rather than a
handle.

=head2 read_string

This behaves just like C<read_handle>, but expects a string containing POD
rather than a handle.

=head2 handle_event

This method is called each time Pod::Evental finishes scanning for a new POD
event.  It must be implemented by a subclass or it will raise an exception.

=head2 handle_nonpod

This method is called each time a non-POD segment is seen -- that is, lines
after C<=cut> and before another command.

If unimplemented by a subclass, it does nothing by default.

=head2 handle_blank

This method is called at the end of a sequence of one or more blank lines.

If unimplemented by a subclass, it does nothing by default.

=head1 EVENTS

There are four kinds of events that Pod::Eventual will produce.  All are
represented as hash references.

=head2 Command Events

These events represent commands -- those things that start with an equals sign
in the first column.  Here are some examples of POD and the event that would be
produced.

A simple header:

  =head1 NAME

  { type => 'command', command => 'head1', content => "NAME\n", start_line => 4 }

Notice that the content includes the trailing newline.  That's to maintain
similarity with this possibly-surprising case:

  =for HTML
  We're actually still in the command event, here.

  {
    type    => 'command',
    command => 'for',
    content => "HTML\nWe're actually still in the command event, here.\n",
    start_line => 8,
  }

Pod::Eventual does not care what the command is.  It doesn't keep track of what
it's seen or whether you've used a command that isn't defined.  The only
special case is C<=cut>, which is never more than one line.

  =cut
  We are no longer parsing POD when this line is read.

  {
    type    => 'command',
    command => 'cut',
    content => "\n",
    start_line => 15,
  }

Waiving this special case may be an option in the future.

=head2 Text Events

A text event is just a paragraph of text, beginning after one or more empty
lines and running until the next empty line (or F<=cut>).  In Perl 5's standard
usage of Pod, text content that begins with whitespace is a "verbatim"
paragraph, and text content that begins with non-whitespace is an "ordinary"
paragraph.

Pod::Eventual doesn't care.

Text events look like this:

  {
    type    => 'text',
    content => "a string of text ending with a\n",
    start_line =>  16,
  }

=head2 Blank events

These events represent blank lines (or many blank lines) within a Pod section.

Blank events look like this:

  {
    type    => 'blank',
    content => "\n\n\n\n",
    start_line => 21,
  }

=head2 Non-Pod events

These events represent non-Pod segments of the input.

Non-Pod events look like this:

  {
    type    => 'nonpod',
    content => "#!/usr/bin/perl\nuse strict;\n\nuse Acme::ProgressBar\n\n",
    start_line => 1,
  }

=head1 AUTHOR

Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Ricardo SIGNES.

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