NAME

File::Find::Rule::TTMETA - Find files based on Template Toolkit META directives

SYNOPSIS

use File::Find::Rule qw(:TTMETA);

        my @files = find(ttmeta => { author => "darren chamberlain" },
                         in => "/var/www/html");

DESCRIPTION

"File::Find::Rule::TTMETA" extends "File::Find::Rule" to work with Template Toolkit templates by providing access to template-specific metadata.

"File::Find::Rule::TTMETA" adds a "ttmeta" method / keyword to "File::Find::Rule". "ttmeta" takes a series of name, value tuples, each of which is compared to the metadata for the file in question (a "Template::Provider" instance attempts to treat each file as a template; compile errors are silently skipped). A file matches if each element of metadata defined in "ttmeta" is present. If there are multiple keys defined, all must match for the file to be considered a match.

Values can be strings or regexes:

find(ttmeta => { VERSION => qr/^2\.\d+/ } => in => $dir);

        File::Find::Rule->file
                        ->ttmeta(color => "green", sheep => 3)
                        ->in($dir);

More complex variables are not (currently) supported by this module, even though "Template::Document" supports them. Patches welcome.

Template Toolkit DETAILS

"File::Find::Rule::TTMETA" uses "Template::Config" to instantiate its "Template::Provider" instance, so it is possible to use custom provider subclasses.

The "Template::Provider" instance that is created has only "ABSOLUTE => 1" set, mainly because most of the other options don't really apply here, but also because I can't think of an elegant way to pass configuration parameters to the constructor.

SEE ALSO

the File::Find::Rule manpage, the Template manpage