NAME

       Graph::Maker - Create many types of graphs

VERSION

       Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

       Base class for Graph::Maker::*.  Subclasses extend this class and override the init
       method.  The init method is passed the class and the parameters.  This uses
       Class::Factory.

               use strict;
               use warnings;
               use Graph;
               use Graph::Maker;
               use Graph::Maker::Linear; # or import qw/Graph::Maker/;

               my $g = new Graph::Maker('linear', N => 10);
               # work with the graph

SUBCLASSING

       The simplest example is the linear graph, nodes i is connected to node i+1.  The
       implimentation can simply be:

               package Graph::Maker::Linear;

               use strict;
               use warnings;
               use Carp;
               use base qw/Graph::Maker/;
               use Graph;

               sub init
               {
                       my ($self, %params) = @_;

                       my $N = delete($params{N});

                       my $g = new Graph(%params);
                       $g->add_path(1..$N);
                       return $g;
               }

               Graph::Maker->add_factory_type( 'linear' => __PACKAGE__ );

               1;

       A real implimentation should check that N is defined and is valid (the one provided in
       this package does).  It is that simple.

SEE ALSO

       Class::Factory
       Graph

AUTHOR

       Matt Spear, "<batman900+cpan at gmail.com>"

BUGS

       None at the moment...

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-graph-maker at rt.cpan.org", or through
       the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Graph-Maker>.  I will
       be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make
       changes.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       This package owes a lot to NetworkX <http://networkx.lanl.gov/>, this is something I think
       is really needed to extend the great Graph module.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

       Copyright 2008 Matt Spear, all rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.