=pod
=encoding utf-8
=for stopwords frobnicate greps regexps
=head1 NAME
Exporter::Tiny::Manual::QuickStart - the quickest way to get up and running with Exporter::Tiny
=head1 SYNOPSIS
package MyUtils;
use Exporter::Shiny qw( frobnicate );
sub frobnicate {
...; # your code here
}
1;
Now people can use your module like this:
use MyUtils "frobnicate";
frobnicate(42);
Or like this:
use MyUtils "frobnicate" => { -as => "frob" };
frob(42);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
See the synopsis. Yes, it's that simple.
=head2 Next steps
=head3 Default exports
Note that the module in the synopsis doesn't export anything by default.
If people load C<MyUtils> like this:
use MyUtils;
Then they haven't imported any functions. You can specify a default set
of functions to be exported like this:
package MyUtils;
use Exporter::Shiny qw( frobnicate );
our @EXPORT = qw( frobnicate );
sub frobnicate { ... }
1;
Or, if you want to be a superstar rock god:
package MyUtils;
use Exporter::Shiny our @EXPORT = qw( frobnicate );
sub frobnicate { ... }
1;
=head3 Tags
You can provide tags for people to use:
package MyUtils;
use Exporter::Shiny qw( frobnicate red green blue );
our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
utils => [qw/ frobnicate /],
colours => [qw/ red green blue /],
);
sub frobnicate { ... }
sub red { ... }
sub green { ... }
sub blue { ... }
1;
And people can now import your functions like this:
use MyUtils ":colours";
Or this:
use MyUtils "-colours";
Or take advantage of the fact that Perl magically quotes barewords
preceded by a hyphen:
use MyUtils -colours;
Two tags are automatically defined for you: C<< -default >> (which is
just the same as C<< @EXPORT >>) and C<< -all >> (which is the union of
C<< @EXPORT >> and C<< @EXPORT_OK >>). If you don't like them, then you
can override them:
our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
default => \@some_other_stuff,
all => \@more_stuff,
);
=head3 Generators
Exporting normally just works by copying a sub from your package into
your caller's package. But sometimes it's useful instead to generate
a I<custom> sub to insert into your caller's package. This is pretty
easy to do.
package MyUtils;
use Exporter::Shiny qw( frobnicate );
sub _generate_frobnicate {
my $me = shift;
my $caller = caller;
my ($name, $args) = @_;
return sub {
...; # your code here
};
}
1;
The parameter C<< $me >> here is a string containing the package name
which is being imported from; C<< $caller >> is the destination package;
C<< $name >> is the name of the sub (in this case "frobnicate"); and
C<< $args >> is a hashref of custom arguments for this function.
# The hashref { foo => 42 } is $args above.
#
use MyUtils "frobnicate" => { foo => 42 };
=head2 Avoiding Exporter::Shiny
Exporter::Shiny is a tiny shim around Exporter::Tiny. It should mostly
do what you want, but you may sometimes prefer to use Exporter::Tiny
directly.
The example in the synopsis could have been written as:
package MyUtils;
use parent "Exporter::Tiny";
our @EXPORT_OK = qw( frobnicate );
sub frobnicate {
...; # your code here
}
1;
What Exporter::Shiny does is mostly just to set C<< @EXPORT_OK >> for
you and set up inheritance from the base class (Exporter::Tiny).
Exporter::Shiny also sets C<< $INC{'MyUtils.pm} >> for you, which in
usually makes little difference, but is useful in some edge cases.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<Exporter::Shiny>,
L<Exporter::Tiny>.
For more advanced information, see
L<Exporter::Tiny::Manual::Exporting>.
=head1 AUTHOR
Toby Inkster E<lt>tobyink@cpan.orgE<gt>.
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014, 2017 by Toby Inkster.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
=head1 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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