NAME

CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Store - Base module for building storage classes for the CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication plugin

SYNOPSIS

 package CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Store::MyStore;
 use base qw(CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Store);

  sub fetch {
      my $self   = shift;
      my @params = @_;
      ...
  }

  sub save {
      my $self   = shift;
      my %params = @_;
      ...
  }

  sub delete {
      my $self   = shift;
      my @params = @_;
      ...
  }

DESCRIPTION

This module is a base class for all storage classes for the CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication plugin. Each storage class is required to provide three methods that fetch, save and delete data from the store. The information that is saved will be text based, so there is no need to flatten any of the data that is to be stored.

METHODS TO OVERRIDE

The following three (and one optional) methods should be provided by the subclass.

fetch

This method accepts a list of parameters and will return a list of values from the store matching those parameters.

save

This method accepts a hash of parameters and values and will save those parameters in the store.

delete

This method accepts a list of parameters and will delete those parameters from the store.

clear

A call to this method will remove all information about the current user out of the store (should be provided by the subclass, but is not required to be).

OTHER METHODS

The following methods are also provided by the CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Store base class.

new

This is a constructor that can create a new Store object. It requires an Authentication object as its first parameter, and any number of other parameters that will be used as options depending on which Store object is being created. You shouldn't need to call this as the Authentication plugin takes care of creating Store objects.

initialize

This method will be called right after a new Store object is created. So any startup customizations can be dealt with here.

options

This will return a list of options that were provided when this store was configured by the user.

authen

This will return the underlying CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication object. In most cases it will not be necessary to access this.

AUTHOR

Cees Hek <ceeshek@gmail.com>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

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

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