package Bridge::Simple;

use strict;
use Carp;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $object_ref = shift;
    my $method_map = shift;
    my $self = {};
    $self->{$_} = $method_map->{$_} for keys %$method_map;
    $self->{object} = $object_ref;
    return bless($self, $class);
}

sub AUTOLOAD {
    my $self = shift;
    use vars '$AUTOLOAD';
    $AUTOLOAD =~ s/.*:://;
    croak "no method $AUTOLOAD" unless exists $self->{$AUTOLOAD};
    my $method = $self->{$AUTOLOAD};
    return $self->{object}->$method(@_);
}

1;

##</code><code>##

----------
| Session |
| object  |
----------
|obj ref: |
| $store  |     -----------------
|     \___|____\| Bridge::Simple |             | Database|
|         |    /|                |             | objects:|
interface:      | $map    $obj --------------->| DB_File,|
 fetch()         ---:------------              | SQLite  |
 fetch_ids()        :
 store()            :
 delete()           :
                    :
               -----------
               (maps the interface
                of the using object
                to the implementation
                interface, eg, the DB_File
                implementation)
                {
                   fetch=>'get_value',
                   fetch_ids=>'get_keys',
                   store=>'set_value',
                   delete=>'delete',
                }

##</code><code>##

my $storage = Bridge::Simple->new(
    Database::DB_File->new(
        type=>'db_btree',
        dbpath=>$path_info{sessionpath},
        dbname=>'sessiontree.db',
    ),
    $storage_map,
);

##</code><code>##

my $xml_map = {
    serialize=>'xml_out',
    deserialize=>'xml_in',
};
my $yaml_map = {
    serialize=>'Dump',
    deserialize=>'Load',
};

my $xml_serializer = Bridge::Simple->new(
    XML::Simple->new(),
    $xml_map,
);
my $yaml_serializer = Bridge::Simple->new(
    YAML->new(),
    $yaml_map,
);