Defining a customized role for use in a package.xml

Defining a customized role for use in a package.xml

To define a custom role, you need to create a package containing a single file. Here is a sample package.xml that could be a custom role:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<package version="2.0" xmlns="http://pear.php.net/dtd/package-2.0"
    xmlns:tasks="http://pear.php.net/dtd/tasks-1.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://pear.php.net/dtd/tasks-1.0
http://pear.php.net/dtd/tasks-1.0.xsd
http://pear.php.net/dtd/package-2.0
http://pear.php.net/dtd/package-2.0.xsd">
 <name>Chiarafoo</name>
 <channel>pear.chiaraquartet.net</channel>
 <summary>Chiarafoo role</summary>
 <description>
  The chiarafoo role installs files into your customized Foo directory
 </description>
 <lead>
  <name>Greg Beaver</name>
  <user>cellog</user>
  <email>cellog@php.net</email>
  <active>yes</active>
 </lead>
 <date>2005-03-21</date>
 <version>
  <release>1.0.0</release>
  <api>1.0.0</api>
 </version>
 <stability>
  <release>stable</release>
  <api>stable</api>
 </stability>
 <license uri="http://www.php.net/license">PHP License</license>
 <notes>
  Provides the chiarafoo file role
 </notes>
 <contents>
  <dir name="/" baseinstalldir="PEAR/Installer/Role">
   <file name="Chiarafoo.xml" role="php"/>
   <file name="Chiarafoo.php" role="php">
    <tasks:replace from="@package_version@" to="version" type="package-info"/>
   </file>
  </dir> <!-- / -->
 </contents>
 <dependencies>
  <required>
   <php>
    <min>4.2.0</min>
   </php>
   <pearinstaller>
    <min>1.4.3</min>
   </pearinstaller>
  </required>
 </dependencies>
 <phprelease/>
</package>

The XML file Chiarafoo.xml should be similar to this file:

<role version="1.0">
 <releasetypes>php</releasetypes>
 <installable>1</installable>
 <locationconfig>foo_dir</locationconfig>
 <honorsbaseinstall>1</honorsbaseinstall>
 <unusualbaseinstall />
 <phpfile>1</phpfile>
 <executable />
 <phpextension />
 <config_vars>
  <foo_dir>
   <type>directory</type>
   <default><php_dir/><constant>DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR</constant><text>Foo</text></default>
   <doc>directory where foo files are installed</doc>
   <prompt>PHP foo directory</prompt>
   <group>File Locations</group>
  </foo_dir>
 </config_vars>
</role>

The script in Chiarafoo.php is incredibly simple:

<?php
/**
 * PEAR_Installer_Role_Chiarafoo
 *
 * PHP versions 4 and 5
 *
 * LICENSE: This source file is subject to version 3.0 of the PHP license
 * that is available through the world-wide-web at the following URI:
 * http://www.php.net/license/3_0.txt.  If you did not receive a copy of
 * the PHP License and are unable to obtain it through the web, please
 * send a note to license@php.net so we can mail you a copy immediately.
 *
 * @category   pear
 * @package    Chiarafoo
 * @author     Greg Beaver <cellog@php.net>
 * @copyright  2005 Greg Beaver
 * @license    http://www.php.net/license/3_0.txt  PHP License 3.0
 * @version    CVS: $Id: customroles.xml,v 1.4 2005/11/03 05:06:52 cellog Exp $
 * @link       http://pear.chiaraquartet.net/index.php?package=Chiarafoo
 * @since      File available since Release 0.1.0
 */

/**
 * @category   pear
 * @package    Chiarafoo
 * @author     Greg Beaver <cellog@php.net>
 * @copyright  2005 Greg Beaver
 * @license    http://www.php.net/license/3_0.txt  PHP License 3.0
 * @version    Release: @package_version@
 * @link       http://pear.chiaraquartet.net/index.php?package=Chiarafoo
 * @since      Class available since Release 0.1.0
 */
class PEAR_Installer_Role_Chiarafoo extends PEAR_Installer_Role_Common
{
    /**
     * @param PEAR_Installer
     * @param PEAR_PackageFile_v2
     * @param array file attributes
     * @param string relative path to file in package.xml
     */
    function setup(&$installer, $pkg, $atts, $file)
    {
        // do something special with the installer
    }
}
?>

Since PEAR 1.4.3, nothing else is necessary for a successful implementation of a file role.

The contents of the role's XML file must contain these tags:

The optional <config_vars> tag

This tag is used to define configuration variables that should be added to the installer by this custom file role. Note that the installer will not allow a custom file role to create more than 3 configuration variables. To define configuration variables, create tags with the name of the configuration variable, and then sub-tags defining information about the configuration variable.

These tags are transformed into the PHP array format expected by the PEAR_Config class using an adapted version of Stephan Schmidt's excellent XML_Unserializer class (from the XML_Serializer package). As such, it is easiest to understand the XML format by examining existing configuration variables.

array(
        'password' => array(
            'type' => 'password',
            'default' => '',
            'doc' => '(maintainers) your PEAR account password',
            'prompt' => 'PEAR password (for maintainers)',
            'group' => 'Maintainers',
            ),
        // Advanced
        'verbose' => array(
            'type' => 'integer',
            'default' => PEAR_CONFIG_DEFAULT_VERBOSE,
            'doc' => 'verbosity level
0: really quiet
1: somewhat quiet
2: verbose
3: debug',
            'prompt' => 'Debug Log Level',
            'group' => 'Advanced',
            ),
        'preferred_state' => array(
            'type' => 'set',
            'default' => PEAR_CONFIG_DEFAULT_PREFERRED_STATE,
            'doc' => 'the installer will prefer releases with this state when installing packages without a version or state specified',
            'valid_set' => array(
                'stable', 'beta', 'alpha', 'devel', 'snapshot'),
            'prompt' => 'Preferred Package State',
            'group' => 'Advanced',
            ),
         );

These sample configuration values from the actual PEAR_Config class would translate into this XML:

<config_vars>
 <password>
  <type>password</type>
  <default />
  <doc>(maintainers) your PEAR account password'</doc>
  <prompt>PEAR password (for maintainers)</prompt>
  <group>Maintainers</group>
 </password>
 <verbose>
  <type>integer</type>
  <default><constant>PEAR_CONFIG_DEFAULT_VERBOSE</constant></default>
  <doc>verbosity level
0: really quiet
1: somewhat quiet
2: verbose
3: debug</doc>
  <prompt>Debug Log Level</prompt>
  <group>Advanced</group>
 </verbose>
 <preferred_state>
  <type>set</type>
  <default><constant>PEAR_CONFIG_DEFAULT_PREFERRED_STATE</constant></default>
  <doc>the installer will prefer releases with this state when installing packages without a version or state specified</doc>
  <valid_set>stable</valid_set>
  <valid_set>beta</valid_set>
  <valid_set>alpha</valid_set>
  <valid_set>devel</valid_set>
  <valid_set>snapshot</valid_set>
  <prompt>Preferred Package State</prompt>
  <group>Advanced</group>
 </preferred_state>
</config_vars>

Note that the simple array defining the set converts each value into a separate <valid_set> tag for the preferred_state configuration variable.

The <default> tag's value can accept either a simple string, or three different kinds of tags:

For instance, this example default value:

<default><text0>hi there </text0><constant>PHP_OS</constant><text1> user, your default php_dir is </text1><php_dir/></default>

might convert into something like "hi there Linux user, your default php_dir is /usr/local/lib/php/pear".

Our example Chiarafoo role's foo_dir default value:
<default><php_dir/><constant>DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR</constant><text>Foo</text></default>

might convert into something like "/usr/local/lib/php/Foo" or "C:\php5\pear\Foo".

Note that in order to use multiple <constant> or <text> tags, you must append a numbered suffix as in the <text0> <text1> example above. Only one PEAR configuration variable may be used per default value.

Note that if you use <type>integer</type>, no matter what default value is specified, it will be casted into an integer by PEAR_Config.

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