use strict;
use warnings;
package Rubric::Entry::Formatter;
{
  $Rubric::Entry::Formatter::VERSION = '0.151';
}
# ABSTRACT: a base class for entry body formatters


use Carp ();
use Rubric::Config;


sub _load_formatter {
  my ($class, $formatter) = @_;

  return 1 if eval { $formatter->can('as_text'); };

  ## no critic (StringyEval)
  return 1 if eval qq{require $formatter};
  ## use critic

  return 0;
}

sub _formatter_for {
  my ($class, $markup) = @_;

  my $markup_formatter = Rubric::Config->markup_formatter;
  $markup_formatter->{_default} = 'Rubric::Entry::Formatter::Nil'
    unless $markup_formatter->{_default};

  Carp::croak "no formatter is registered for $markup markup"
    unless my $formatter = $markup_formatter->{ $markup };

  return $formatter;
}

sub format {
  my ($class, $arg) = @_;
  my $config = {}; # extra configuration for formatter code

  my $formatter = $class->_formatter_for($arg->{markup});

  if (ref $formatter) {
    $config = { %$formatter };
    Carp::croak "formatter config for $arg->{markup} includes no class"
      unless $formatter = delete $config->{class};
  }

  $class->_load_formatter($formatter)
    or Carp::croak "couldn't load formatter '$formatter': $@";

  my $formatter_code = $formatter->can("as_$arg->{format}")
    or Carp::croak "$formatter does not implement formatting to $arg->{format}";

  $formatter_code->($formatter, $arg, $config);
}


1;

__END__
=pod

=head1 NAME

Rubric::Entry::Formatter - a base class for entry body formatters

=head1 VERSION

version 0.151

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This class serves as a single point of dispatch for attempts to format entry
bodies from their native format into rendered output.

=head1 METHODS

=head2 C< format >

  my $formatted = Rubric::Entry::Formatter->format(\%arg);

This method accepts a set of named arguments and returns formatted output in
the requested format.  If it is unable to do so, it throws an exception.

Valid arguments are:

 markup - the markup format used to mark up the text (default: _default)
 text   - the text that has been marked up and should be formatted (required)
 format - the requested output format (required)

Formatting requests are dispatched according to the configuration in
C<markup_formatter>.  

=head1 WRITING FORMATTERS

Writing a formatter should be very simple; the interface is very simple,
although it's also very young and so it may change when I figure out the
problems in the current implementation.

A formatter must implement an C<as_FORMAT> method for each format to which it
claims to be able to output formatted text.  When Rubric::Entry::Formatter
wants to dispatch text for formatting, it will call that method as follows:

  my $formatted = Formatter->as_whatever(\%arg);

The arguments in C<%arg> will be the same as those passed to
Rubric::Entry::Formatter.

Actually, the method is found and called via C<can>, so a suitably programmed
module can respond to C<can> to allow it to render into all the format it likes
-- or at least to claim to.

=head1 AUTHOR

Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2004 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

