Date::Holidays::Super - a SUPER class for the Date::Holidays::* modules

	package MyHolidays;

	use Date::Holidays::Super;
	use vars qw(@ISA);

	@ISA = qw(Date::Holidays::Super);

	my $mh = MyHolidays->new();

	my $bool = $mh->is_holiday( ... ); 

	my $hashref = $mh->holidays( ... ); 

This POD described version 0.03 of Date::Holidays::Super

This is a SUPER class intended for use by Date::Holidays::* modules.

The goal is to have all the existing and future modules implement the same methods, so they will have a uniform usage and can be used in polymorphic context or can be easily adapted into the Date::Holidays class.

The class provides two methods: is_holiday and holidays an alternative to this class is Date::Holidays::Abstract, which does not implement these methods, but require that they are implemented.

If you want to use Date::Holidays::Super and want to comply with my suggestions to the methods that ought to be implemented, you should overload the methods provided by this class, when and if you have the time in your Date::Holidays::* module.

is_holiday

holidays

Should at least take 3 arguments:

year, four digits

month, between 1-12

day, between 1-31

The return value from is holiday is either a 1 or 0 indicating true of false, indicating whether the specified date is a holiday in the given country's national calendar.

is_holiday in the SUPER class returns 0 indicating false, since nothing intelligent can be said about holidays without specifying a national calendar.

Additional arguments are at the courtesy of the author of the using module/class.

Should at least take one argument:

year, four digits

Returns a reference to a hash, where the keys are date represented as four digits. The two first representing month (01-12) and the last two representing day (01-31).

The value for the key in question is the local name for the holiday indicated by the day. The resultset will of course vary depending on the given country's national holiday.

holidays in the SUPER class return a reference to an empty hash, since nothing intelligent can be said about holidays without specifying a national calendar.

Additional arguments are at the courtesy of the author of the using module/class.

--

Date::Holidays uses the requirements defined by this module and this module can therefor be used with success in conjunction with this.

This is an alternative to the abstract class Date::Holidays::Abstract.

Suggestions for changes and extensions are more than welcome.

No special exceptions/diagnostics are used at this time, please see TODO file

No special configuration and/or environment required

No dependencies at this time

No known incompatibilities at this time

Please report issues via CPAN RT:

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Date-Holidays-Super

or by sending mail to

  bug-Date-Holidays-Super@rt.cpan.org

Date::Holidays::Abstract

Date::Holidays

Date::Holidays::*

Jonas B. Nielsen, (jonasbn) - <jonasbn@cpan.org>

Date-Holidays-Super is (C) by Jonas B. Nielsen, (jonasbn) 2004-2007

Date-Holidays-Super is released under the artistic license

The distribution is licensed under the Artistic License, as specified by the Artistic file in the standard perl distribution (http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html).