"Santiago Hirschfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi everyone, > > I'm pretty new to perl and i'm doing a program to organize music, I'd > like to make a plugin system for the file formats, so i can just use > the formats y ussually have, and not include a long list of "use" in > my main program. > I was thinking in create modules in MyProg/AudioFormats/ with names as > Ogg.pm and then call them automattically in my main program (which > should check for all existing files and then create a hash containing > the extentions the plugin module manages and the module name (like > ('ogg' => 'Ogg', 'mp3' => 'Mp3',) ) and use some standard subs in > every module (get_file_tag, get_know_extentions, set_file_tag). > My idea is to call the right get_file_tag for every file, so > MyProg::AudioFormats::Ogg::get_file_tag is called when an ogg file is > used. And that is what i don't know how to do =) >
What you describe is called a "Class Factory" and you may be able to use a module or two from CPAN, the one that immediately comes to mind is the aptly named "Class::Factory." http://search.cpan.org/~cwinters/Class-Factory-1.03/lib/Class/Factory.pm Todd W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
