NAME

Pipeline::Store - defines the interface for Pipeline store classes

SYNOPSIS

  use Pipeline::Store; # interface class, does very little

DESCRIPTION

"Pipeline::Store" provides a constructor and a generic get/set interface for any class implementing a store to sit on a Pipeline. Pipeline stores are singletons inside the dispatch process. Ie, if you attempt to construct a pipeline store in between the dispatch method being called on a pipeline segment and having the method return a value then you will get the same store as that segments store() method.

METHODS

The Pipeline class inherits from the "Pipeline::Base" class and therefore also has any additional methods that its superclass may have.

new(): The "new" method constructs a new Pipeline::Store object and calls the "init" method. If the transaction flat is set then it returns the current store singleton.
init(): The "init" method is called by new() to do any construction-time initialization of an object.
start_transaction: Sets the transaction flag, which makes the store object that this is called on a singleton until end_transaction is called.
end_transaction: Clears the transaction flag, which lets you construct new pipeline stores.
store( [ store ] ): The "store" method gets or sets the store in a Pipeline::Store object. Unless "init" is changed the store is set at construction time to a hash reference.
get(): Does nothing in Pipeline::Store - exists as a placeholder for subclasses.
set(): Does nothing in Pipeline::Store - exists as a placeholder for subclasses.

COPYRIGHT

This module is released under the same license as Perl itself.

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