pgFormatter::CGI(3)

NAME
pgFormatter::CGI - Implementation of CGI-BIN script to format SQL queries.

VERSION
Version 5.6

SYNOPSIS
This module is called by pg_format program, when it detects it is run in CGI environment. In such case all control over flow is passed to this module by calling:

    my $program = pgFormatter::CGI->new();
    $program->run()

FUNCTIONS

  new
Object constructor, calls set_config method to set default values for various parameters.

  run
Route to the right handler based on what sort of data we receive

  run_webpage
Wraps all work related to generating html page.

It calls set of functions to get CGI object, receive parameters from request, sanitize them, beautify query (if provided) and print ghtml.

  run_api
Wraps all work related to generating JSON response when used as API.

  get_cgi
Creates CGI object, and sets POST size limit

Sets config for the page and beautifier. URLs, names of auxiliary files, configuration for pgFormatter::Beautify module.

Loads, and returns, default CSS from __DATA__.

Gets values of parameters, and possibly uploaded file from CGI object to structures in $self.

Get params for the API version of this service

  sanitize_params
Overrides parameter values if given values were not within acceptable ranges.

  beautify_query
Runs beautification on provided query, and stores new version in $self->{'content'}

  print_json
Outputs beautified SQL as JSON

Outputs body of the page.

  print_footer
Outputs footer of the page

  _load_optional_file
Helper function to try to load file. If it succeeds, it returns file content, it not, it returns empty string (instead of dying).

  print_error
Outputs an error message when no acceptable response is found.

  print_headers
Outputs page headers - both HTTP level headers, and HTML.

DATA
__DATA__ section (at the end of this file) is used to store default CSS Style, so that it will not "pollute" Perl code, and will not need to be indented.

AUTHOR
pgFormatter is an original work from Gilles Darold

BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to: https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter/issues

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2012-2025 Gilles Darold. All rights reserved.

LICENSE
pgFormatter is free software distributed under the PostgreSQL Licence.

A modified version of the SQL::Beautify Perl Module is embedded in pgFormatter with copyright (C) 2009 by Jonas Kramer and is published under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.