NAME

       Dancer::Engine - base class for Dancer engines

SYNOPSIS

           my $engine = Dancer::Engine->build( Serializer => 'JSON', $configuration );

DESCRIPTION

       Dancer has various engines such Serializer engines, Template engines, Logger engines and
       Session handlers engines. This is the base class for all Dancer engines.

       If you're writing an engine of a common type (such as those mentioned above), you probably
       want to simply use their base class, which in turn use Dancer::Engine. For example,
       Template engines inherit from Dancer::Template::Abstract and Serializer engines inherit
       from Dancer::Serializer::Abstract. Those Abstract base classes inherit from
       Dancer::Engine.

       If a new type of Dancer engine is created, it is best it inherits from this class.

ATTRIBUTES

   name
       The name of the engine, such as JSON, or Simple.

   type
       The type of the engine, such as Serializer, or Session.

METHODS/SUBROUTINES

   config
       Fetches the configuration of the engine.

           my $configuration = $engine->config;

       You can only set the configuration at initialization time, not after.

   build
       Builds and returns the engine.

           my $engine = Dancer::Engine->build( $type => $name, $config );

AUTHOR

       Alexis Sukrieh

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2009-2010 Alexis Sukrieh.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or
       the Artistic License.

       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.