Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

Appendix B. Object Constructor Parameters

This appendix provides a quick reference to all the constructor parameters of the major pieces of the Mason framework. See Chapter 6 or the official Mason documentation for more detail, including information on how and where to specify them.

It’s important to understand the relationships among the various pieces of Mason’s framework; Figure B-1 shows how they relate to one another. Keep in mind that you can pass any class’s parameters to a class that contains it. For example, you can pass any Compiler parameters to the new( ) method of the Interpreter, ApacheHandler, or CGIHandler. In the figure, the solid arrows indicate a “contains one” relationship, and the dashed arrows indicate a “contains many” relationship.

Figure B-1.  An outline for the Mason framework

HTML::Mason::Interp

Name	Type	Default	Description
autohandler_name (MasonAutohandlerName)	string	autohandler	The filename to use for Mason’s ‘autohandler’ capability
code_cache_max_size (Mason-CodeCacheMaxSize)	string	10485760	The maximum size of the component code cache
compiler (MasonCompiler)	object	HTML::Mason::Compiler::ToObject->new	A Compiler object for compiling components
data_dir (MasonDataDir)	string		A directory for storing cache files and other state information
ignore_warnings_expr (Mason-IgnoreWarningsExpr)	regex	qr/Subroutine .* redefined/i ...