NAME

Dist::Zilla::Role::EnsureStash - Ensure your plugin has access to a certain stash

VERSION

This document describes version 0.002 of Dist::Zilla::Role::EnsureStash - released December 30, 2012 as part of Dist-Zilla-Role-EnsureStash.

SYNOPSIS

    package Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Something;

    use Moose;
    use namespace::autoclean;

    with
        'Dist::Zilla::Plugin::BeforeRelease',
        'Dizt::Zilla::Role::EnsureStash',
        ;

    sub our_stash_name  { '%ThatStash'                    }
    sub our_stash_class { 'Dist::Zilla::Stash::ThatStash' }

    sub before_release {
        my $self = shift @_;

        # returns '%ThatStash' if it exists, otherwise creates, registers,
        # then returns it
        my $stash = $self->our_stash;

        # profit!
    }

DESCRIPTION

This is a Dist::Zilla role designed to ensure that if a plugin needs access to a stash, and that stash does not already exist, then it is automatically created and returned.

This is more intended for helping plugins that need to share common data do so via stashes, rather than specific information (e.g. PAUSE credentials and the like). As such, the stash instances created here are expected to largely be able to do their thing without much (preferably any) external input.

REQUIRED METHODS

our_stash_name

Just as it sounds; should return something Dist::Zilla will recognize as a stash name (e.g. %SomeStash).

our_stash_class

This is expected to return the class name of the class to be created and registered as our_stash_name() if a stash by that name does not exist.

It is expected to have consumed the Dist::Zilla::Role::Stash role.

SEE ALSO

Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.

• Dist::Zilla::Role::RegisterStash

AUTHOR

Chris Weyl <cweyl@alumni.drew.edu>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by Chris Weyl.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1, February 1999