package DateTime::Format::Human::Duration; use warnings; use strict; require DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale; our $VERSION = '0.60'; use Carp qw/croak/; sub new { bless { 'locale_cache' => {} }, 'DateTime::Format::Human::Duration'; } sub format_duration_between { my ($span, $dt, $dtb, %args) = @_; my $dur = $dt - $dtb; if (!exists $args{'locale'}) { $args{'locale'} = $dt->{'locale'}{'id'}; } return $span->format_duration($dur, %args); } sub format_duration { my ($span, $duration, %args) = @_; my @default_units = qw(years months weeks days hours minutes seconds nanoseconds); my @units = $args{'units'} ? @{ $args{'units'} } : @default_units; if ($args{'precision'}) { # Reduce time resolution to requested precision for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@units); $i++) { next unless ($units[$i] eq $args{'precision'}); splice(@units, $i + 1); } croak('Useless precision') unless (@units); } my @duration_vals = $duration->in_units( @units ); my $i = 0; my %duration_vals = map { ($_ => $duration_vals[$i++]) } @units; my %positive_duration_vals = map { ($_ => abs $duration_vals{$_}) } keys %duration_vals; my $say = ''; # $dta - $dtb: # if dta < dtb means past -> future (Duration units will have negatives) # else its either this absolute instant (no_time) or the past if ( grep { $_ < 0 } @duration_vals ) { if ( exists $args{'future'} ) { $say = $args{'future'} } } else { if ( exists $args{'past'} ) { $say = $args{'past'} } } #### ## this is essentially the hashref that is returned from DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::en::get_human_span_hashref() : # #### my $setup = { 'no_oxford_comma' => 0, 'no_time' => 'no time', # The wait will be $formatted_duration 'and' => 'and', 'year' => 'year', 'years' => 'years', 'month' => 'month', 'months' => 'months', 'week' => 'week', 'weeks' => 'weeks', 'day' => 'day', 'days' => 'days', 'hour' => 'hour', 'hours' => 'hours', 'minute' => 'minute', 'minutes' => 'minutes', 'second' => 'second', 'seconds' => 'seconds', 'nanosecond' => 'nanosecond', 'nanoseconds' => 'nanoseconds', }; my $locale = DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale::calc_locale($span, $args{'locale'}); if($locale) { if ( ref $locale eq 'HASH' ) { %{ $setup } = ( %{ $setup }, %{ $locale }, ); } # get_human_span_from_units_array is deprecated, but we will still # support it. elsif ( my $get1 = $locale->can('get_human_span_from_units_array') ) { my @n = map { $positive_duration_vals{$_} } @default_units; return $get1->( @n, \%args ); } elsif ( my $get2 = $locale->can('get_human_span_from_units') ) { return $get2->( \%duration_vals, \%args ); } } my @parts; for my $unit (@units) { my $val = $positive_duration_vals{$unit}; next unless $val; my $setup_key = $unit; if ($val == 1) { $setup_key =~ s/s$//; } push(@parts, $val . ' ' . $setup->{$setup_key}); } my $no_time = exists $args{'no_time'} ? $args{'no_time'} : $setup->{'no_time'}; return $no_time if !@parts; my $last = @parts > 1 ? pop(@parts): ''; ## We want to use the so-called Oxford comma to avoid ambiguity. ## For that reason we make locale's specifically tell us they do not want it. my $string = $setup->{'no_oxford_comma'} ? join(', ', @parts) . ($last ? " $setup->{'and'} $last" : '') : join(', ', @parts) . (@parts > 1 ? ',' : '') . ($last ? " $setup->{'and'} $last" : '') ; if ( $say ) { $string = $say =~ m{%s} ? sprintf($say, $string): "$say $string"; } return $string; } 1; __END__ =encoding utf8 =head1 NAME DateTime::Format::Human::Duration - Get a locale specific string describing the span of a given duration =head1 SYNOPSIS use DateTime; use DateTime::Format::Human::Duration my $span = DateTime::Format::Human::Duration->new(); my $dur = $dta - $dtb; print $span->format_duration($dur); # 1 year, 2 months, 3 minutes, and 1 second print $span->format_duration_between($dta, $dtb); # 1 year, 2 months, 3 minutes, and 1 second =head1 DESCRIPTION Get a localized string representing the duration. For example: 1 second 2 minutes and 3 seconds 3 weeks, 1 day, and 5 seconds 4 years, 1 month, 2 days, 6 minutes, 1 second, and 345000028 nanoseconds =head1 INTERFACE =head2 new() Create span object, no args =head2 format_duration() First argument is a DateTime::Duration object After that you can optionally pass some 'standard args' as a hash as described below =head2 format_duration_between() First two args are DateTime objects After that you can optionally pass some 'standard args' as a hash as described below =head2 standard args =over 4 =item 1. 'locale' locale of the $dt object will be used if you do not specify this Valid values are a string of the locale (E.g 'fr'), a DateTime object, or a DateTime object's 'locale' key. =item 2. Since we're working with 2 DateTime objects of known points we can have past and future tenses. =over 4 =item * past String to use if duration is past tense. Can have a sprintf '%s' or else is prepended with a trailing space. =item * future String to use if duration is future tense. Can have a sprintf '%s' or else is prepended with a trailing space. =item * no_time Override the 'no_time' in the locale hash. =back If duration is baseless (IE ambiguous) then 'past' and 'future' is used based on if $dur->in_units has negatives or not. Also by nature it's not split into type groups: An example is DateTime::Duration->new('seconds'=> 62) Will result in '62 seconds' not '1 minute and 2 seconds' For more sane results always be specific by using 2 datetime object to get a duration object print $dt->format_duration_between( $dta, $dtb, 'past' => 'Your account expired %s ago.', 'future' => 'Your account expires in %s.', 'no_time'=> 'Your account just expired.', ); This facilitates, for example, this L vernacular which becomes: 'Your account [duration,_1,_2,expired %s ago,expires in,just expired].' => '[Votre compte [duration,_1,_2,a expiré il ya,expire dans,vient d'expirer].' =item 3. Time Resolution and Units =over 4 =item * units Specify units to format duration with. Arguments will be passed to DateTime::Format's in_unit() method. Example: my $fmt = DateTime::Format::Human::Duration->new(); my $d = DateTime::Duration->new(...); my $s = $fmt->format_duration($d, 'units' => [qw/years months days/] ); # $s == '1 year, 7 months, and 16 days' Possible values include: years months weeks days hours minutes seconds nanoseconds =item * precision By default, the duration will be formatted using nanosecond resolution. Resolution can be reduced by passing 'years', 'months', 'weeks', 'days', 'hours', 'minutes', or 'seconds' to the 'precision' argument. Example: my $fmt = DateTime::Format::Human::Duration->new(); my $d = DateTime::Duration->new(...); print $fmt->format_duration($d); # '1 year, 7 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes, and 15 seconds' print $fmt->format_duration($d, 'precision' => 'days'); # '1 year, 7 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days' =back =back =head1 LOCALIZATION Localization is provided by the included DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale modules. Included are DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale::es, DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale::fr, DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale::pt, DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale::de, DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale::it More will be included as time permits/folks volunteer/CLDR becomes an option They are setup this way: DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale::XYZ where 'XYZ' is the ISO code of DateTime::Locale It can have one of 2 functions: =over 4 =item get_human_span_hashref() Takes no arguments, should return a hashref of this structure: sub get_human_span_hashref { return { 'no_oxford_comma' => 1, 'no_time' => 'pas le temps', 'and' => 'et', 'year' => 'an', 'years' => 'ans', 'month' => 'mois', 'months' => 'mois', 'week' => 'semaine', 'weeks' => 'semaines', 'day' => 'jour', 'days' => 'jours', 'hour' => 'heure', 'hours' => 'heures', 'minute' => 'minute', 'minutes' => 'minutes', 'second' => 'seconde', 'seconds' => 'seconds', 'nanosecond' => 'nanoseconde', 'nanoseconds' => 'nanosecondes', }; } =item get_human_span_from_units() Try to use L if the locale allows for it since it's much easier. If you cannot, however, then this will give you the maximum level of configurability. This takes the arguments as described in the example below, should return the localized "span" string. sub get_human_span_from_units { my ($duration_values_hr, $args_hr) = @_; ...; return $string; # 1 year, 2days, 4 hours, and 17 minutes } Please see the example in C. =back =head1 LOCALIZATION of DateTime::Format modules L does an excellent job at implementing localization. Often L based class's either don't support localization or they implement it haphazardly and inconsistently. With this module I hope to model a localization scheme that is inline with L and is consistent and reuseable between based classes. The idea is to determine the locale to use based on a DateTime object. XYZ::Locale should handle looking up (and caching if appropriate) the locale and loading the necessary locale module XYZ::Locale::fr The specific locale module holds the data and possibly logic neccesary to do what XYZ does in the vernacular of the given locale. =head2 TODO Eventually the generic logic will be re-broken out into its own module for re-use by your class and I'll have more detailed POD about how to do it. In the meantime if you're interested please contact me and I'd be happy to help and/or expediate this TODO. Also, Dave Rolksy has mentioned to me that this sort of locale data might be appropriate for DateTime::Locale directly from CLDR. If that happens this module will be changed to use that if possible. =head1 FAQ =head2 Why would I want to use this? So you can localize your application's output of time periods without having to do a lot of logic each time you wanted to say it. L has/will have a duration() bracket notation method which prompted this module's existence duration() was prompted by its datetime() brother, all of which uses the most excellent DateTime project! =head2 Why did my duration say '62 seconds' instead of '1 minute and 2 seconds' Because you used an ambiguous duration (one without a base) so there is no way to apply date math and accurately represent the number of each given item in that duration since it may or may not span leap-[second, days, years, etc..] In other words do this (so that your duration can be specifically calculated): $dtb = $dta->clone->add('seconds'=> 62); my $duration = $dta - $dtb; # has a base, its not ambiguous print $span->format_duration($duration); # 1 minutes and 2 seconds not this: my $duration = DateTime::Duration->new('seconds'=> 62); # no base, it is ambiguous print $span->format_duration($duration); # 62 seconds Note L(), does not suffer from this since we're using a specific DateTime object already. print $span->format_duration_between( $dt, $dt->clone()->add('seconds'=> 62) ); # 1 minute and 2 seconds =head2 Why do you put a comma before the 'and' in a group of more than 2 items? We want to use the so-called Oxford comma to avoid ambiguity. =head2 My DateTime::Format::Human::Duration::Locale::XX still outputs in English! That is because it defined neither the L or the L functions It must define one of them or defaults are used. =head2 Why didn't you just use 'DateTime::Format::Duration' Essencially DateTime::Format::Duration is an object representing a single strftime() type string to apply to any given duration. This is not flexible enough for the intent of this module. DateTime::Format::Duration is not a bad module its just for a different purpose than DateTime::Format::Human::Duration =over 4 =item * It was not localizable You either got '2 days' or '1 days' which a) forces it to be in English and b) doesn't even make sense in English. You could get around that by adding logic each time you wanted to call it but that is just messy. =item * Had to keep an item even if it was zero If 'days' was in there you got '0 days', we only want items with a value to show. That'd also require a lot of logic each time you wanted to call which is again messy. =item * This module has no need for reparsing output back into an object Since the datetime info for 2 points in time are generally in a form easily rendered into a DateTime object it'd be silly to even attempt to store and parse the output of this module back into an object. Plus since it all depends on the locale it is in it'd be difficult. =back The purpose of DateTime::Format::Human::Duration was to generate a localized human language description of a duration without the caller needing to supply any logic. =head1 DIAGNOSTICS Throws no warnings or errors of its own =head1 CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT DateTime::Format::Human::Duration requires no configuration files or environment variables. =head1 DEPENDENCIES None. =head1 INCOMPATIBILITIES None reported. =head1 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS No bugs have been reported. Please report any bugs or feature requests to C, or through the web interface at L. =head1 AUTHOR Daniel Muey C<< >> =head1 LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2008, Daniel Muey C<< >>. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 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