Padre::Task::PPI(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Padre::Task::PPI(3pm)

NAME

       Padre::Task::PPI - Generic PPI background processing task

SYNOPSIS

	 package Padre::Task::MyFancyTest;

	 use strict;
	 use base 'Padre::Task::PPI';

	 # Will be called after ppi-parsing:
	 sub process {
	     my $self	= shift;
	     my $ppi	= shift or return;
	     my $result = ...expensive_calculation_using_ppi...
	     $self->{result} = $result;
	     return;
	 }

	 1;

	 # elsewhere:

	 Padre::Task::MyFancyTest->new(
	     text => 'parse-this!',
	 )->schedule;

DESCRIPTION

       This is a base class for all tasks that need to do expensive calculations using PPI. The class will setup a PPI::Document object from a
       given piece of code and then call the "process_ppi" method on the task object and pass the PPI::Document as first argument.

       You can either let "Padre::Task::PPI" fetch the Perl code for parsing from the current document or specify it as the ""text"" parameter to
       the constructor.

       Note: If you don't supply the document text and there is no currently open document to fetch it from, "new()" will simply return the empty
       list instead of a "Padre::Task::PPI" object.

SEE ALSO

       This class inherits from "Padre::Task" and its instances can be scheduled using "Padre::TaskManager".

       The transfer of the objects to and from the worker threads is implemented with Storable.

AUTHOR

       Steffen Mueller "smueller@cpan.org"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2008-2012 The Padre development team as listed in Padre.pm.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5 itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-27						     Padre::Task::PPI(3pm)