Bigtop::Docs::Modules An annotated list of modules in the Bigtop distribution
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An annotated list of modules in the Bigtop distribution Bigtop::Docs::Modules is a Perl module with an annotated list of modules in the Bigtop distribution.IntroThis document goes into some depth on each piece of of the Bigtop distribution. Some of the details are left for the POD of the pieces themselves.If you want to know exactly what's legal in a bigtop file, look in Bigtop::Docs::Syntax or the more concise (and less complete) Bigtop::Docs::AutoKeywords. Or, you could look where tentmaker looks: Bigtop::Keywords.Bigtop.pmBigtop.pm is primarily a documentation module. It does provide two useful functions for backend authors. One writes files on the disk the other makes directory paths. See its docs for details.Bigtop::ParserThis is the real workhorse of Bigtop. It is a grammar driven parser for Bigtop files. Interactions with this parser are usually indirect. End users use the bigtop script, which in turn uses the parser to first build an abstract syntax tree (AST) and then to generate output by passing the AST to the backends. Developers should write backends which receive the AST in methods named for what they should produce (see Backends below).Parsing Bigtop specificationsIf you have a file on the disk and want to parse it into an abstract syntax tree (AST), call Bigtop::Parser->parse_file( $file_name ). This returns the AST.The bigtop script is quite simple. (It relies on Bigtop::ScriptHelp when it needs to manufacture or modify bigtop source files.) Mostly, it handles command line options, then directly passes the rest of its command line arguments to gen_from_file in Bigtop::Parser. gen_from_file reads the file into memory and passes it and the other command line arguments to gen_from_string.gen_from_string first parses the config section of the Bigtop file to find the backends. It requires each of those (using Bigtop::Parser->import), then calls gen_YourType on each one that is not marked no_gen.The backend's gen_YourType is called as a class method. It receives the base directory of the build (where the user wants files to end up), the AST, and the input file name (if one is available). Requirements: · Perl

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