Pipeline::Store(3)

✨ Pipeline::Store ✨

okay so bestie, this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for Pipeline::Store(3), and it's the blueprint page, the interface page, the vibe-setter for the whole store family. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Pipeline::Store — it literally defines the interface for Pipeline store classes. that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

use Pipeline::Store; # interface class, does very little

and the comment is not me being shady, that is literally what the module says about itself. she's honest, we love her 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so Pipeline::Store hands you a constructor and a generic get/set interface for any class implementing a store to sit on a Pipeline. that's the deal. that's the assignment.

here's the part that lowkey changes everything: Pipeline stores are singletons inside the dispatch process. i.e., if you attempt to construct a pipeline store in between the dispatch method being called on a pipeline segment and having the method return a value, then you will get the same store as that segment's store() method. same one. no new one. no cap 🔥

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💅 METHODS 💅

first things first, bestie: the Pipeline class inherits from the Pipeline::Base class, and therefore also has any additional methods that its superclass may have. family tree matters 🧚

new()

the new method constructs a new Pipeline::Store object and calls the init method. cute. but — if the transaction flat is set, then it returns the current store singleton instead. (yes, the page says flat, not flag. typo? legend? mystery? iykyk 💀)

init()

the init method is called by new() to do any construction-time initialization of an object. that's her moment to get ready before the party starts ✨

start_transaction

sets the transaction flag, which makes the store object that this is called on a singleton until end_transaction is called. one store only. main character energy, no clones 🌟

end_transaction

clears the transaction flag, which lets you construct new pipeline stores. the singleton era is over, we're in our building-new-stores era 🦋

store( [ store ] )

the store method gets or sets the store in a Pipeline::Store object. unless init is changed, the store is set at construction time to a hash reference. that's the default, that's the lore 📦

get()

does nothing in Pipeline::Store — exists as a placeholder for subclasses. she's just standing there, holding space 🫶

set()

does nothing in Pipeline::Store — exists as a placeholder for subclasses. twins fr fr 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Pipeline
• Pipeline::Store::Simple
• Pipeline::Store::ISA

go read those next, bestie, that's the group chat 💬

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright 2003 Fotango Ltd. All Rights Reserved

This module is released under the same license as Perl itself.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

James A. Duncan <jduncan@fotango.com>

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okay periodt, that's the whole page. legal stuff stays legal stuff, no edits from me 💅

and that's a wrap! this gorgeous little page comes to you courtesy of perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and she's filed under Pipeline::Store(3). mwah 🎀✨