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.

AUTHOR

Steffen Mueller "[email protected]"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2008-2013 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.