I'm clueless. How to subclass Palm::Raw

Skeeve has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi!

I never ever got really friend with OO-style. I use it with XML::Twig and I could manage to read Palm Pilot Databases with CPAN Module PALM::Raw.

But now I seek your advice. Or maybe even instruction?

I have one palm database that I'd like to mangle with. I managed to read it with Palm::Raw. Now I'd love to make my own Palm::AGsu module that will handle these databases. The way should be to subclass Palm::Raw, I guess. But how do I start? Where do I put my methods like ->get_field_by_name('name') and what ever else I might need.

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Re: I'm clueless. How to subclass Palm::Raw by leriksen (Curate) on Jun 28, 2006 at 00:05 UTC
in ( I suggest ) lib/Palm/AGsu.pm... `package Palm::AGsu; use strict; use warnings; use base qw(Palm::Raw); sub get_field_by_name { my ($self, $name) = @_; .... } sub you_other_methods_here { my ($self, $param1, $param2,...) = @_; .... } .... 1;` [download] In t/Palm/AGsu.t `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use Test::More qw(no_plan); # for now ... BEGIN { use_ok('Palm::AGsu') or die "cannot use Palm::AGsu'; }; require_ok('Palm::AGsu'); my pa = Palm::AGsu->new(...whatever...); isa_ok($pa, 'Palm::AGsu'); is($pa->get_field_by_name('some field'), 'some value', 'some field == +some value'); ...` [download] Then you can do this `prove -vl t/Palm/AGsu.t ...<output from test harness>...` [download] ...reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. - R P Feynmann	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: I'm clueless. How to subclass Palm::Raw by Skeeve (Parson) on Jun 28, 2006 at 14:58 UTC
Many, many thanks! A final question: What should I do so that others can review and criticize my modules? Shall I post it here? Are there any monks around wanting to check what I did? `s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{});#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(\|?{%` `+`.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: I'm clueless. How to subclass Palm::Raw by Old_Gray_Bear (Bishop) on Jun 28, 2006 at 16:33 UTC
Well, you can post a Meditation here and label it 'RFC' (Request For Comment). You will get a fair bit of commentary and critique initially. For longer term feed-back, get your self a PAUSE ID and build a CPAN distribution. I know, that's a lot more work, but.... ---- I Go Back to Sleep, Now. OGB	[reply]