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package autodie::hints; | |
use strict; | |
use warnings; | |
use constant PERL58 => ( $] < 5.009 ); | |
our $VERSION = '2.34'; # VERSION: Generated by DZP::OurPkg:Version | |
# ABSTRACT: Provide hints about user subroutines to autodie | |
=head1 NAME | |
autodie::hints - Provide hints about user subroutines to autodie | |
=head1 SYNOPSIS | |
package Your::Module; | |
our %DOES = ( 'autodie::hints::provider' => 1 ); | |
sub AUTODIE_HINTS { | |
return { | |
foo => { scalar => HINTS, list => SOME_HINTS }, | |
bar => { scalar => HINTS, list => MORE_HINTS }, | |
} | |
} | |
# Later, in your main program... | |
use Your::Module qw(foo bar); | |
use autodie qw(:default foo bar); | |
foo(); # succeeds or dies based on scalar hints | |
# Alternatively, hints can be set on subroutines we've | |
# imported. | |
use autodie::hints; | |
use Some::Module qw(think_positive); | |
BEGIN { | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for( | |
\&think_positive, | |
{ | |
fail => sub { $_[0] <= 0 } | |
} | |
) | |
} | |
use autodie qw(think_positive); | |
think_positive(...); # Returns positive or dies. | |
=head1 DESCRIPTION | |
=head2 Introduction | |
The L<autodie> pragma is very smart when it comes to working with | |
Perl's built-in functions. The behaviour for these functions are | |
fixed, and C<autodie> knows exactly how they try to signal failure. | |
But what about user-defined subroutines from modules? If you use | |
C<autodie> on a user-defined subroutine then it assumes the following | |
behaviour to demonstrate failure: | |
=over | |
=item * | |
A false value, in scalar context | |
=item * | |
An empty list, in list context | |
=item * | |
A list containing a single undef, in list context | |
=back | |
All other return values (including the list of the single zero, and the | |
list containing a single empty string) are considered successful. However, | |
real-world code isn't always that easy. Perhaps the code you're working | |
with returns a string containing the word "FAIL" upon failure, or a | |
two element list containing C<(undef, "human error message")>. To make | |
autodie work with these sorts of subroutines, we have | |
the I<hinting interface>. | |
The hinting interface allows I<hints> to be provided to C<autodie> | |
on how it should detect failure from user-defined subroutines. While | |
these I<can> be provided by the end-user of C<autodie>, they are ideally | |
written into the module itself, or into a helper module or sub-class | |
of C<autodie> itself. | |
=head2 What are hints? | |
A I<hint> is a subroutine or value that is checked against the | |
return value of an autodying subroutine. If the match returns true, | |
C<autodie> considers the subroutine to have failed. | |
If the hint provided is a subroutine, then C<autodie> will pass | |
the complete return value to that subroutine. If the hint is | |
any other value, then C<autodie> will smart-match against the | |
value provided. In Perl 5.8.x there is no smart-match operator, and as such | |
only subroutine hints are supported in these versions. | |
Hints can be provided for both scalar and list contexts. Note | |
that an autodying subroutine will never see a void context, as | |
C<autodie> always needs to capture the return value for examination. | |
Autodying subroutines called in void context act as if they're called | |
in a scalar context, but their return value is discarded after it | |
has been checked. | |
=head2 Example hints | |
Hints may consist of subroutine references, objects overloading | |
smart-match, regular expressions, and depending on Perl version possibly | |
other things. You can specify different hints for how | |
failure should be identified in scalar and list contexts. | |
These examples apply for use in the C<AUTODIE_HINTS> subroutine and when | |
calling C<< autodie::hints->set_hints_for() >>. | |
The most common context-specific hints are: | |
# Scalar failures always return undef: | |
{ scalar => sub { !defined($_[0]) } } | |
# Scalar failures return any false value [default expectation]: | |
{ scalar => sub { ! $_[0] } } | |
# Scalar failures always return zero explicitly: | |
{ scalar => sub { defined($_[0]) && $_[0] eq '0' } } | |
# List failures always return an empty list: | |
{ list => sub { !@_ } } | |
# List failures return () or (undef) [default expectation]: | |
{ list => sub { ! @_ || @_ == 1 && !defined $_[0] } } | |
# List failures return () or a single false value: | |
{ list => sub { ! @_ || @_ == 1 && !$_[0] } } | |
# List failures return (undef, "some string") | |
{ list => sub { @_ == 2 && !defined $_[0] } } | |
# Unsuccessful foo() returns 'FAIL' or '_FAIL' in scalar context, | |
# returns (-1) in list context... | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for( | |
\&foo, | |
{ | |
scalar => qr/^ _? FAIL $/xms, | |
list => sub { @_ == 1 && $_[0] eq -1 }, | |
} | |
); | |
# Unsuccessful foo() returns 0 in all contexts... | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for( | |
\&foo, | |
{ | |
scalar => sub { defined($_[0]) && $_[0] == 0 }, | |
list => sub { @_ == 1 && defined($_[0]) && $_[0] == 0 }, | |
} | |
); | |
This "in all contexts" construction is very common, and can be | |
abbreviated, using the 'fail' key. This sets both the C<scalar> | |
and C<list> hints to the same value: | |
# Unsuccessful foo() returns 0 in all contexts... | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for( | |
\&foo, | |
{ | |
fail => sub { @_ == 1 and defined $_[0] and $_[0] == 0 } | |
} | |
); | |
# Unsuccessful think_positive() returns negative number on failure... | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for( | |
\&think_positive, | |
{ | |
fail => sub { $_[0] < 0 } | |
} | |
); | |
# Unsuccessful my_system() returns non-zero on failure... | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for( | |
\&my_system, | |
{ | |
fail => sub { $_[0] != 0 } | |
} | |
); | |
=head1 Manually setting hints from within your program | |
If you are using a module which returns something special on failure, then | |
you can manually create hints for each of the desired subroutines. Once | |
the hints are specified, they are available for all files and modules loaded | |
thereafter, thus you can move this work into a module and it will still | |
work. | |
use Some::Module qw(foo bar); | |
use autodie::hints; | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for( | |
\&foo, | |
{ | |
scalar => SCALAR_HINT, | |
list => LIST_HINT, | |
} | |
); | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for( | |
\&bar, | |
{ fail => SOME_HINT, } | |
); | |
It is possible to pass either a subroutine reference (recommended) or a fully | |
qualified subroutine name as the first argument. This means you can set hints | |
on modules that I<might> get loaded: | |
use autodie::hints; | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for( | |
'Some::Module:bar', { fail => SCALAR_HINT, } | |
); | |
This technique is most useful when you have a project that uses a | |
lot of third-party modules. You can define all your possible hints | |
in one-place. This can even be in a sub-class of autodie. For | |
example: | |
package my::autodie; | |
use parent qw(autodie); | |
use autodie::hints; | |
autodie::hints->set_hints_for(...); | |
1; | |
You can now C<use my::autodie>, which will work just like the standard | |
C<autodie>, but is now aware of any hints that you've set. | |
=head1 Adding hints to your module | |
C<autodie> provides a passive interface to allow you to declare hints for | |
your module. These hints will be found and used by C<autodie> if it | |
is loaded, but otherwise have no effect (or dependencies) without autodie. | |
To set these, your module needs to declare that it I<does> the | |
C<autodie::hints::provider> role. This can be done by writing your | |
own C<DOES> method, using a system such as C<Class::DOES> to handle | |
the heavy-lifting for you, or declaring a C<%DOES> package variable | |
with a C<autodie::hints::provider> key and a corresponding true value. | |
Note that checking for a C<%DOES> hash is an C<autodie>-only | |
short-cut. Other modules do not use this mechanism for checking | |
roles, although you can use the C<Class::DOES> module from the | |
CPAN to allow it. | |
In addition, you must define a C<AUTODIE_HINTS> subroutine that returns | |
a hash-reference containing the hints for your subroutines: | |
package Your::Module; | |
# We can use the Class::DOES from the CPAN to declare adherence | |
# to a role. | |
use Class::DOES 'autodie::hints::provider' => 1; | |
# Alternatively, we can declare the role in %DOES. Note that | |
# this is an autodie specific optimisation, although Class::DOES | |
# can be used to promote this to a true role declaration. | |
our %DOES = ( 'autodie::hints::provider' => 1 ); | |
# Finally, we must define the hints themselves. | |
sub AUTODIE_HINTS { | |
return { | |
foo => { scalar => HINTS, list => SOME_HINTS }, | |
bar => { scalar => HINTS, list => MORE_HINTS }, | |
baz => { fail => HINTS }, | |
} | |
} | |
This allows your code to set hints without relying on C<autodie> and | |
C<autodie::hints> being loaded, or even installed. In this way your | |
code can do the right thing when C<autodie> is installed, but does not | |
need to depend upon it to function. | |
=head1 Insisting on hints | |
When a user-defined subroutine is wrapped by C<autodie>, it will | |
use hints if they are available, and otherwise reverts to the | |
I<default behaviour> described in the introduction of this document. | |
This can be problematic if we expect a hint to exist, but (for | |
whatever reason) it has not been loaded. | |
We can ask autodie to I<insist> that a hint be used by prefixing | |
an exclamation mark to the start of the subroutine name. A lone | |
exclamation mark indicates that I<all> subroutines after it must | |
have hints declared. | |
# foo() and bar() must have their hints defined | |
use autodie qw( !foo !bar baz ); | |
# Everything must have hints (recommended). | |
use autodie qw( ! foo bar baz ); | |
# bar() and baz() must have their hints defined | |
use autodie qw( foo ! bar baz ); | |
# Enable autodie for all of Perl's supported built-ins, | |
# as well as for foo(), bar() and baz(). Everything must | |
# have hints. | |
use autodie qw( ! :all foo bar baz ); | |
If hints are not available for the specified subroutines, this will cause a | |
compile-time error. Insisting on hints for Perl's built-in functions | |
(eg, C<open> and C<close>) is always successful. | |
Insisting on hints is I<strongly> recommended. | |
=cut | |
# TODO: implement regular expression hints | |
use constant UNDEF_ONLY => sub { not defined $_[0] }; | |
use constant EMPTY_OR_UNDEF => sub { | |
! @_ or | |
@_==1 && !defined $_[0] | |
}; | |
use constant EMPTY_ONLY => sub { @_ == 0 }; | |
use constant EMPTY_OR_FALSE => sub { | |
! @_ or | |
@_==1 && !$_[0] | |
}; | |
use constant SINGLE_TRUE => sub { @_ == 1 and not $_[0] }; | |
use constant DEFAULT_HINTS => { | |
scalar => UNDEF_ONLY, | |
list => EMPTY_OR_UNDEF, | |
}; | |
use constant HINTS_PROVIDER => 'autodie::hints::provider'; | |
our $DEBUG = 0; | |
# Only ( undef ) is a strange but possible situation for very | |
# badly written code. It's not supported yet. | |
my %Hints = ( | |
'File::Copy::copy' => { scalar => SINGLE_TRUE, list => SINGLE_TRUE }, | |
'File::Copy::move' => { scalar => SINGLE_TRUE, list => SINGLE_TRUE }, | |
'File::Copy::cp' => { scalar => SINGLE_TRUE, list => SINGLE_TRUE }, | |
'File::Copy::mv' => { scalar => SINGLE_TRUE, list => SINGLE_TRUE }, | |
); | |
# Start by using Sub::Identify if it exists on this system. | |
eval { require Sub::Identify; Sub::Identify->import('get_code_info'); }; | |
# If it doesn't exist, we'll define our own. This code is directly | |
# taken from Rafael Garcia's Sub::Identify 0.04, used under the same | |
# license as Perl itself. | |
if ($@) { | |
require B; | |
no warnings 'once'; | |
*get_code_info = sub ($) { | |
my ($coderef) = @_; | |
ref $coderef or return; | |
my $cv = B::svref_2object($coderef); | |
$cv->isa('B::CV') or return; | |
# bail out if GV is undefined | |
$cv->GV->isa('B::SPECIAL') and return; | |
return ($cv->GV->STASH->NAME, $cv->GV->NAME); | |
}; | |
} | |
sub sub_fullname { | |
return join( '::', get_code_info( $_[1] ) ); | |
} | |
my %Hints_loaded = (); | |
sub load_hints { | |
my ($class, $sub) = @_; | |
my ($package) = ( $sub =~ /(.*)::/ ); | |
if (not defined $package) { | |
require Carp; | |
Carp::croak( | |
"Internal error in autodie::hints::load_hints - no package found. | |
"); | |
} | |
# Do nothing if we've already tried to load hints for | |
# this package. | |
return if $Hints_loaded{$package}++; | |
my $hints_available = 0; | |
{ | |
no strict 'refs'; ## no critic | |
if ($package->can('DOES') and $package->DOES(HINTS_PROVIDER) ) { | |
$hints_available = 1; | |
} | |
elsif ( PERL58 and $package->isa(HINTS_PROVIDER) ) { | |
$hints_available = 1; | |
} | |
elsif ( ${"${package}::DOES"}{HINTS_PROVIDER.""} ) { | |
$hints_available = 1; | |
} | |
} | |
return if not $hints_available; | |
my %package_hints = %{ $package->AUTODIE_HINTS }; | |
foreach my $sub (keys %package_hints) { | |
my $hint = $package_hints{$sub}; | |
# Ensure we have a package name. | |
$sub = "${package}::$sub" if $sub !~ /::/; | |
# TODO - Currently we don't check for conflicts, should we? | |
$Hints{$sub} = $hint; | |
$class->normalise_hints(\%Hints, $sub); | |
} | |
return; | |
} | |
sub normalise_hints { | |
my ($class, $hints, $sub) = @_; | |
if ( exists $hints->{$sub}->{fail} ) { | |
if ( exists $hints->{$sub}->{scalar} or | |
exists $hints->{$sub}->{list} | |
) { | |
# TODO: Turn into a proper diagnostic. | |
require Carp; | |
local $Carp::CarpLevel = 1; | |
Carp::croak("fail hints cannot be provided with either scalar or list hints for $sub"); | |
} | |
# Set our scalar and list hints. | |
$hints->{$sub}->{scalar} = | |
$hints->{$sub}->{list} = delete $hints->{$sub}->{fail}; | |
return; | |
} | |
# Check to make sure all our hints exist. | |
foreach my $hint (qw(scalar list)) { | |
if ( not exists $hints->{$sub}->{$hint} ) { | |
# TODO: Turn into a proper diagnostic. | |
require Carp; | |
local $Carp::CarpLevel = 1; | |
Carp::croak("$hint hint missing for $sub"); | |
} | |
} | |
return; | |
} | |
sub get_hints_for { | |
my ($class, $sub) = @_; | |
my $subname = $class->sub_fullname( $sub ); | |
# If we have hints loaded for a sub, then return them. | |
if ( exists $Hints{ $subname } ) { | |
return $Hints{ $subname }; | |
} | |
# If not, we try to load them... | |
$class->load_hints( $subname ); | |
# ...and try again! | |
if ( exists $Hints{ $subname } ) { | |
return $Hints{ $subname }; | |
} | |
# It's the caller's responsibility to use defaults if desired. | |
# This allows on autodie to insist on hints if needed. | |
return; | |
} | |
sub set_hints_for { | |
my ($class, $sub, $hints) = @_; | |
if (ref $sub) { | |
$sub = $class->sub_fullname( $sub ); | |
require Carp; | |
$sub or Carp::croak("Attempts to set_hints_for unidentifiable subroutine"); | |
} | |
if ($DEBUG) { | |
warn "autodie::hints: Setting $sub to hints: $hints\n"; | |
} | |
$Hints{ $sub } = $hints; | |
$class->normalise_hints(\%Hints, $sub); | |
return; | |
} | |
1; | |
__END__ | |
=head1 Diagnostics | |
=over 4 | |
=item Attempts to set_hints_for unidentifiable subroutine | |
You've called C<< autodie::hints->set_hints_for() >> using a subroutine | |
reference, but that reference could not be resolved back to a | |
subroutine name. It may be an anonymous subroutine (which can't | |
be made autodying), or may lack a name for other reasons. | |
If you receive this error with a subroutine that has a real name, | |
then you may have found a bug in autodie. See L<autodie/BUGS> | |
for how to report this. | |
=item fail hints cannot be provided with either scalar or list hints for %s | |
When defining hints, you can either supply both C<list> and | |
C<scalar> keywords, I<or> you can provide a single C<fail> keyword. | |
You can't mix and match them. | |
=item %s hint missing for %s | |
You've provided either a C<scalar> hint without supplying | |
a C<list> hint, or vice-versa. You I<must> supply both C<scalar> | |
and C<list> hints, I<or> a single C<fail> hint. | |
=back | |
=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |
=over | |
=item * | |
Dr Damian Conway for suggesting the hinting interface and providing the | |
example usage. | |
=item * | |
Jacinta Richardson for translating much of my ideas into this | |
documentation. | |
=back | |
=head1 AUTHOR | |
Copyright 2009, Paul Fenwick E<lt>[email protected]<gt> | |
=head1 LICENSE | |
This module is free software. You may distribute it under the | |
same terms as Perl itself. | |
=head1 SEE ALSO | |
L<autodie>, L<Class::DOES> | |
=for Pod::Coverage get_hints_for load_hints normalise_hints sub_fullname get_code_info | |
=cut | |