SYNOPSIS

use Catmandu -all;
use Catmandu qw(config store);
use Catmandu -load; # loads default configuration file
use Catmandu -all -load => [qw(/config/path' '/another/config/path)];
# If you have Catmandu::OAI and Catmandu::MongoDB installed
my $importer = Catmandu->importer('OAI',url => 'https://biblio.ugent.be/oai')
my $store = Catmandu->exporter('MongoDB',database_name => 'test');
# Import all the OAI records into MongoDB
$store->add_many($importer);
# Export all the MongoDB records to YAML and apply some fixes
# myfixes.txt:
# upcase(title.*)
# remove_field(_metadata)
# join_field(creator,'; ')
# join_field(subject,'-- ')
my $fixer = Catmandu->fixer('myfixes.txt');
my $exporter = Catmandu->exporter('YAML');
$exporter->add_many(
$fixer->fix($store)
);
$exporter->commit;
# Or be very lazy and do this via the command line
$ catmandu import OAI --url https://biblio.ugent.be/oai to MongoDB --database_name test
$ catmandu export MongoDB --database_name test --fix myfixes.txt to YAML

DESCRIPTION

Importing, transforming, storing and indexing data should be easy.

Catmandu provides a suite of Perl modules to ease the import, storage, retrieval, export and transformation of metadata records. Combine Catmandu modules with web application frameworks such as PSGI/Plack, document stores such as MongoDB and full text indexes such as Solr to create a rapid development environment for digital library services such as institutional repositories and search engines.

In the <http://librecat.org/> project it is our goal to provide an open source set of programming components to build up digital libraries services suited to your local needs.

Read an in depth introduction into Catmandu programming at <https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu/wiki/Introduction>.

INSTALLATION

To install Catmandu just run:

  cpanm Catmandu

To install a whole bunch of Catmandu* modules run

  cpanm --interactive Task::Catmandu

Read our documentation for more installation hints and OS specific requirements:

http://librecat.org/Catmandu/#installation

METHODS

log

Return the current logger (the Log::Any::Adapter for category Catmandu::Env). See Log::Any#Logging for how to send messages to the logger. Read our <https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu/wiki/Cookbook> ``See some debug messages'' for some hints on logging.

default_load_path('/default/path')

Set the location of the default configuration file to a new path.

load

Load all the configuration options in the catmandu.yml configuration file. See CONFIG below for extended examples of configuration options.

load('/path', '/another/path')

Load all the configuration options stored at alternative paths.

A load path ':up' will search upwards from your program for configuration.

See CONFIG below for extended examples of configuration options.

roots

Returns an ARRAYREF of paths where configuration was found. Note that this list is empty before "load".

root

Returns the first path where configuration was found. Note that this is "undef" before "load".

config

Returns the current configuration as a HASHREF.

default_store

Return the name of the default store.

store([NAME])

Return an instance of Catmandu::Store. The NAME is a name of a Catmandu::Store or the name of a store configured in a catmandu.yml configuration file. When no NAME is given, the 'default' store in the configuration file will be used.

E.g. if the configuration file 'catmandu.yml' contains:

 store:
  default:
   package: ElasticSearch
   options:
     index_name: blog
  test:
   package: Mock

then in your program:

    # This will use ElasticSearch
    my $store = Catmandu->store('ElasticSearch', index_name => 'blog');
    # or because we have a 'default' set in the configuration file
    my $store = Catmandu->store('default');
    # or because 'default' will be used when no name was provided
    my $store = Catmandu->store;
    # This will use Mock
    my $store = Catmandu->store('test');

Configuration settings can be overwritten by the store command:

  my $store2 = Catmandu->store('default', index_name => 'test2');

default_fixer

Return the name of the default fixer.

fixer(NAME)

fixer(FIX,FIX)

fixer([FIX])

Return an instance of Catmandu::Fix. NAME can be the name of a fixer section in a catmandu.yml file. Or, one or more Catmandu::Fix-es can be provided inline.

E.g. if the configuration file 'catmandu.yml' contains:

 fixer:
  default:
    - do_this()
    - do_that()

then in your program al these lines below will create the same fixer:

    my $fixer = Catmandu->fixer('do_this()', 'do_that()');
    my $fixer = Catmandu->fixer(['do_this()', 'do_that()']);
    my $fixer = Catmandu->fixer('default');
    my $fixer = Catmandu->fixer(); # The default name is 'default'

FIX-es can be also written to a Fix script. E.g. if myfixes.txt contains:

 do_this()
 do_that()

then the above code will even be equivalent to:

   my $fixer = Catmandu->fixer('myfixes.txt');

default_importer

Return the name of the default importer.

default_importer_package

Return the name of the default importer package if no package name is given in the config or as a param.

importer(NAME)

Return an instance of Catmandu::Importer. The NAME is a name of a Catmandu::Importer or the name of a importer configured in a catmandu.yml configuration file. When no NAME is given, the 'default' importer in the configuration file will be used.

E.g. if the configuration file 'catmandu.yml' contains:

  importer:
    default:
      package: OAI
      options:
        url: http://www.instute.org/oai/

then in your program all these lines will be equivalent:

  my $importer = Catmandu->importer('OAI', url => 'http://www.instute.org/oai/');
  my $importer = Catmandu->importer('default');
  my $importer = Catmandu->importer(); # The default name is 'default'

Configuration settings can be overwritten by the importer command:

  my $importer2 = Catmandu->importer('default', url => 'http://other.institute.org');

default_exporter

Return the name of the default exporter.

default_exporter_package

Return the name of the default exporter package if no package name is given in the config or as a param.

exporter([NAME])

Return an instance of Catmandu::Exporter with name NAME (or the default when no name is given). The NAME is set in the configuration file (see 'importer').

export($data,[NAME])

Export data using a default or named exporter.

    Catmandu->export({ foo=>'bar'});
    my $importer = Catmandu::Importer::Mock->new;
    Catmandu->export($importer, 'YAML', file => '/my/file');
    Catmandu->export($importer, 'my_exporter');
    Catmandu->export($importer, 'my_exporter', foo => $bar);

export_to_string

Export data using a default or named exporter to a string.

    my $importer = Catmandu::Importer::Mock->new;
    my $yaml = Catmandu->export_to_string($importer, 'YAML');
    # is the same as
    my $yaml = "";
    Catmandu->export($importer, 'YAML', file => \$yaml);

EXPORTS

config

Same as "Catmandu->config".

store

Same as "Catmandu->store".

importer

Same as "Catmandu->importer".

exporter

Same as "Catmandu->exporter".

export

Same as "Catmandu->export".

export_to_string

Same as "Catmandu->export_to_string".

fixer

Same as "Catmandu->fixer".

log

Same as "Catmandu->log".

-all/:all

Import everything.

-load/:load

    use Catmandu -load;
    use Catmandu -load => [];
    # is the same as
    Catmandu->load;
    use Catmandu -load => ['/config/path'];
    # is the same as
    Catmandu->load('/config/path');

CONFIG

Catmandu configuration options can be stored in files in the root directory of your programming project. The file can be YAML, JSON or Perl and is called "catmandu.yml", "catmandu.json" or "catmandu.pl". In this file you can set the default Catmandu stores and exporters to be used. Here is an example of a "catmandu.yml" file:

    store:
      default:
        package: ElasticSearch
        options:
          index_name: myrepository
    exporter:
      default:
        package: YAML

Split config

For large configs it's more convenient to split the config into several files. You can do so by having multiple config files starting with catmandu*.

    catmandu.general.yml
    catmandu.db.yml
    ...

Split config files are processed and merged by Config::Onion.

Deeply nested config structures

Config files can indicate a path under which their keys will be nested. This makes your configuration more readable by keeping indentation to a minimum.

A config file containing

    _prefix:
        foo:
            bar:
    baz: 1

will be loaded as

    foo:
      bar:
        baz: 1

See Config::Onion for more information on how this works.

AUTHOR

Nicolas Steenlant, "<nicolas.steenlant at ugent.be>"

CONTRIBUTORS

Magnus Enger, "magnus at enger.priv.no"

Nicolas Franck, "nicolas.franck at ugent.be"

Patrick Hochstenbach, "patrick.hochstenbach at ugent.be"

Vitali Peil, "vitali.peil at uni-bielefeld.de"

Christian Pietsch, "christian.pietsch at uni-bielefeld.de"

Dave Sherohman, "dave.sherohman at ub.lu.se"

Jakob Voss, "nichtich at cpan.org"

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/> for more information.