Pipelin...duction(3)

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💖 Pipeline::Production — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the Pipelin...duction(3) page — it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and it's about one tiny lil wrapper class that does a very big job. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

Pipeline::Production — a wrapper for production objects 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Pipeline::Production;

my $pp = Pipeline::Production->new();

$pp->contents( $object );
my $production = $pp->contents();

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically the Pipeline::Production class is a wrapper. like, a lil cozy blanket. 🧣 it wraps around any scalar — which means literally any object, or any reference, too — that a Pipeline is supposed to treat as a production.

and here's the iconic part: a production object terminates the pipeline upon receipt and causes the cleanup segments to be executed. it's giving "i'm the main character and this scene is over." 👑

🌈 METHODS 🌈

  • new() — constructs a brand new, fresh-out-the-box Pipeline::Production object and hands it right back to you. in the process it also calls the init() method, because teamwork makes the dream work. ✨
  • init() — gets called at construction time to do any pre-use initialization on the object. it's the little pre-game routine before the object goes out. 🎀
  • contents( [ SCALAR ] ) — gets or sets the contents of the production. i.e., the actual production itself. pass a SCALAR to set it, pass nothing to just get it. lowkey the most important method here. 💖
  • contains( [ SCALAR ] ) — a synonym for contents. same energy, different name. twin behavior fr fr. 👯

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

"Pipeline" — go check out the parent vibe, iykyk 🦋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

James A. Duncan <jduncan@fotango.com> — the icon who wrote this 💜

Copyright 2003 Fotango Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

This software is released under the same terms as Perl itself. 🍓

okay and that's the whole page, bestie — it's a perl v5.42.0 page dated 2025-07-25, so if you're reading this, hi from the future, and slay. 💅✨🎀

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