Graph::Maker(3pm)

💖 Graph::Maker 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Graph::Maker(3pm) — the perl manual page that's literally about making graphs. this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, so you know it's giving community-made, handcrafted, artisanal ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Graph::Maker — create many types of graphs. that's it, that's the whole vibe. many. types. graphs. 👑

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

Version 0.02 — baby numbers, but she's working 🫶

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

so basically this is the base class for Graph::Maker::*. the subclasses extend this class and override the init method, and init gets handed the class plus the parameters. and the whole thing rides on Class::Factory. iykyk 💅

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

literally that's all it takes, no cap.

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🦋 SUBCLASSING 🦋

okay so the simplest example ever is the linear graph — node i is connected to node i+1. that's the whole personality. the implementation 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;

now a real implementation should check that N is defined and is valid (the one provided in this package does, she's thorough 💅). and honestly? it is that simple. that's the tea.

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

• Class::Factory
• Graph

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🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

Matt Spear, "<batman900+cpan at gmail.com>" — shoutout to the author, icon behavior 🙈

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💜 BUGS 💜

None at the moment... ✨ manifesting that energy forever ✨

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.

like, mutual notif system? we love a two-way street fr fr 🫶

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🌸 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. lowkey iconic of them to say it 💖

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👑 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.

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bestie reminder: free software, same terms as Perl, don't be weird about it 💅

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and that's the page!! this was perl v5.32.1, dated 2021-08-27, and the manual is Graph::Maker(3pm) — go forth and make graphs, main character 🦋✨