GroupField(3pm)

✨ GroupField — Lire::GroupField ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the LogReport's Lire Documentation era 🎀 this little page is literally all about Lire::GroupField, and ngl it's a vibe.

💖 NAME 💖

Lire::GroupField — the class that implements the field element in report specifications. that's it, that's the whole personality ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

use Lire::GroupField;

one line, iconic, no notes 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically this module is what you use to represent the field elements — the ones that show up inside the group aggregator element in report specifications. like, that's its whole job and it ate 🔥

👑 CONSTRUCTOR 👑

💜 new( %params )

creates a brand-new Lire::GroupField object for you 🫶 it takes several parameters, and they're similar to Lire::ReportOperator (iykyk).

• name — the DLF field's name that this GroupField represents. important caveat bestie: this shouldn't be a quantity or time field — other aggregators should be used for those, fr fr 🙈
• report_spec — the report specification in which this the group field is added.
• label — the column's label that should be used for this field.

🌈 name()

returns the DLF field name which we represent. simple, clean, slay ✨

🍓 label( [$new_label] )

returns the label that should be used for the column we generate in the report. the default? it uses the DLF field's label 💖

and you can totally change it — just pass a $new_label parameter and boom, new label 🌸

⭐ field()

returns the DLF field which we represents as a Lire::Field object. it's giving object-oriented excellence 👑

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Lire::Group(3pm) — go read it, bestie, it's the whole friend group 💜

🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

• Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org>
• Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang@logreport.org>

💫 VERSION 💫

$Id: GroupField.pm,v 1.19 2006/07/23 13:16:29 vanbaal Exp $

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org

This file is part of Lire.

Lire is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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ok that's the whole page, no cap 💅 go forth and group those fields, bestie 🦋

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