internal package Foswiki::Tables::Reader

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internal package Foswiki::Tables::Reader

Abstract reader for tables; builds tables using the default table model classes.

The reader is provided with the name of the table_class, which defaults to Foswiki::Tables::Table. This class provides a row_class method which is used to get the factory for a row (default: Foswiki::Tables::Row), which in turn can be interrogated for the cell_class (default: Foswiki::Tables::Cell).

ClassMethod new($table_class) → $parser

• $table_class - name of table factory class. Defaults to Foswiki::Tables::Table

The parser can be used to parse tables from text using parse.

ObjectMethod finish()

Clean up for disposal

ObjectMethod parse($text [, $topicObject]) → \@list

Extract a topic into a list of lines and embedded table definitions.

Each table definition is an object of type $table_class, and contains a set of attrs (read from the macro) and a list of rows. You can spot the tables in the list by doing:

if (UNIVERSAL::isa($line, $table_class)) {

text lines are scalars, so will also return false to ref($line)

The $topicObject is an instance of Foswiki::Meta, and is required to provide an expansion context for macros embedded in parameters. If it is not provided, then macros will be passed on unexpanded, and support for table decorators (such as %EDITTABLE) will be unavailable.