Flavors¶

This document describes Amon2’s Flavor architecture.

Amon2 provides a setup script helper. It was completely rewritten at Amon2 2.60.

Properties¶

is_standalone¶

Value type: boolean

Is it a standalone flavor? If there is no standalone flavor is loadded, Amon2::Setup loads Amon2::Setup::Flavor::Basic as base flavor automatically.

This property is not mandatory. If there is no method, then it is not a standalone flavor.

Example code is:

package My::Flavor1;
sub is_standalone { 1 }

parent¶

Value type: list of strings

This property describes parent flavor. There is a example code:

package My::Flavor1;
sub parent { qw(Basic) }

Or:

package My::Flavor2;
sub parent { qw(+My::Flavor1) }

assets¶

Value type: list of strings

You can specify the assets class list:

package My::Flavor1;
sub assets { qw(jQuery) }

plugins¶

Value type: list of strings

You can load a plugins by flavor:

package My::Flavor1;
sub plugins { qw(Web::JSON) }

context_path¶

This property indicates a path of context class. It is normally lib/<<PATH>>.pm.

web_context_path¶

This property indicates a path of web context class. It is normally lib/<<PATH>>/Web.pm.

Path rewriting¶

Amon2::Setup rewrites a template path for normalization.

<<PATH>>¶

<<PATH>> rewrites as a directory path from module name. e.g. “My/App”:

lib/<<PATH>>.pm → lib/My/App.pm
lib/<<PATH>>/Web.pm → lib/My/App/Web.pm

<<WEB_CONTEXT_PATH>>¶

This indicates a path for web context object. e.g.:

<<WEB_CONTEXT_PATH>> → lib/<<PATH>>/Web.pm

<<CONTEXT_PATH>>¶

This indicates a path for context object. e.g.:

<<CONTEXT_PATH>> → lib/<<PATH>>.pm

Templates¶

You can write a templates on __DATA__ section in Data::Section::Simple’s format like:

package My::Flavor1;
__DATA__
@@ lib/<<PATH>>/Web.pm
: cascade "!";
: after prepare -> {
# load all controller classes
use Module::Find ();
Module::Find::useall("<: $module :>::DB");
: }
@@ t/04_foo.t
use Test::More;
ok 1;
done_testing;

Flavor’s template is Text::Xslate. And it uses Kolon syntax for using template cascading.

Template Cascading¶

Amon2 uses template cascading for flexible templating in setup script.

Just write a following line to indicate a overriding parent file:

: cascade "!";

List of overridable block names are available on each flavor’s docs.