package Package::Stash; use strict; use warnings; # ABSTRACT: routines for manipulating stashes use Carp qw(confess); use Scalar::Util qw(reftype); use Symbol; use XSLoader; XSLoader::load( __PACKAGE__, # we need to be careful not to touch $VERSION at compile time, otherwise # DynaLoader will assume it's set and check against it, which will cause # fail when being run in the checkout without dzil having set the actual # $VERSION exists $Package::Stash::{VERSION} ? ${ $Package::Stash::{VERSION} } : (), ); # before 5.12, assigning to the ISA glob would make it lose its magical ->isa # powers use constant BROKEN_ISA_ASSIGNMENT => ($] < 5.012); =head1 SYNOPSIS my $stash = Package::Stash->new('Foo'); $stash->add_package_symbol('%foo', {bar => 1}); # $Foo::foo{bar} == 1 $stash->has_package_symbol('$foo') # false my $namespace = $stash->namespace; *{ $namespace->{foo} }{HASH} # {bar => 1} =head1 DESCRIPTION Manipulating stashes (Perl's symbol tables) is occasionally necessary, but incredibly messy, and easy to get wrong. This module hides all of that behind a simple API. NOTE: Most methods in this class require a variable specification that includes a sigil. If this sigil is absent, it is assumed to represent the IO slot. =method new $package_name Creates a new C object, for the package given as the only argument. =method name Returns the name of the package that this object represents. =method namespace Returns the raw stash itself. =cut { my %SIGIL_MAP = ( '$' => 'SCALAR', '@' => 'ARRAY', '%' => 'HASH', '&' => 'CODE', '' => 'IO', ); sub _deconstruct_variable_name { my ($self, $variable) = @_; (defined $variable && length $variable) || confess "You must pass a variable name"; my $sigil = substr($variable, 0, 1, ''); if (exists $SIGIL_MAP{$sigil}) { return ($variable, $sigil, $SIGIL_MAP{$sigil}); } else { return ("${sigil}${variable}", '', $SIGIL_MAP{''}); } } } =method add_package_symbol $variable $value %opts Adds a new package symbol, for the symbol given as C<$variable>, and optionally gives it an initial value of C<$value>. C<$variable> should be the name of variable including the sigil, so Package::Stash->new('Foo')->add_package_symbol('%foo') will create C<%Foo::foo>. Valid options (all optional) are C, C, and C. C<$opts{filename}>, C<$opts{first_line_num}>, and C<$opts{last_line_num}> can be used to indicate where the symbol should be regarded as having been defined. Currently these values are only used if the symbol is a subroutine ('C<&>' sigil) and only if C<$^P & 0x10> is true, in which case the special C<%DB::sub> hash is updated to record the values of C, C, and C for the subroutine. If these are not passed, their values are inferred (as much as possible) from C information. This is especially useful for debuggers and profilers, which use C<%DB::sub> to determine where the source code for a subroutine can be found. See L for more information about C<%DB::sub>. =method remove_package_glob $name Removes all package variables with the given name, regardless of sigil. =method has_package_symbol $variable Returns whether or not the given package variable (including sigil) exists. =method get_package_symbol $variable Returns the value of the given package variable (including sigil). =cut sub get_package_symbol { my ($self, $variable, %opts) = @_; my ($name, $sigil, $type) = ref $variable eq 'HASH' ? @{$variable}{qw[name sigil type]} : $self->_deconstruct_variable_name($variable); my $namespace = $self->namespace; if (!exists $namespace->{$name}) { if ($opts{vivify}) { if ($type eq 'ARRAY') { if (BROKEN_ISA_ASSIGNMENT) { $self->add_package_symbol( $variable, $name eq 'ISA' ? () : ([]) ); } else { $self->add_package_symbol($variable, []); } } elsif ($type eq 'HASH') { $self->add_package_symbol($variable, {}); } elsif ($type eq 'SCALAR') { $self->add_package_symbol($variable); } elsif ($type eq 'IO') { $self->add_package_symbol($variable, Symbol::geniosym); } elsif ($type eq 'CODE') { confess "Don't know how to vivify CODE variables"; } else { confess "Unknown type $type in vivication"; } } else { if ($type eq 'CODE') { # this effectively "de-vivifies" the code slot. if we don't do # this, referencing the coderef at the end of this function # will cause perl to auto-vivify a stub coderef in the slot, # which isn't what we want $self->add_package_symbol($variable); } } } my $entry_ref = \$namespace->{$name}; if (ref($entry_ref) eq 'GLOB') { return *{$entry_ref}{$type}; } else { if ($type eq 'CODE') { no strict 'refs'; return \&{ $self->name . '::' . $name }; } else { return undef; } } } =method get_or_add_package_symbol $variable Like C, except that it will return an empty hashref or arrayref if the variable doesn't exist. =cut sub get_or_add_package_symbol { my $self = shift; $self->get_package_symbol(@_, vivify => 1); } =method remove_package_symbol $variable Removes the package variable described by C<$variable> (which includes the sigil); other variables with the same name but different sigils will be untouched. =method list_all_package_symbols $type_filter Returns a list of package variable names in the package, without sigils. If a C is passed, it is used to select package variables of a given type, where valid types are the slots of a typeglob ('SCALAR', 'CODE', 'HASH', etc). Note that if the package contained any C blocks, perl will leave an empty typeglob in the C slot, so this will show up if no filter is used (and similarly for C, C, etc). =head1 BUGS No known bugs. Please report any bugs through RT: email C, or browse to L. =head1 SEE ALSO =over 4 =item * L This module is a factoring out of code that used to live here =back =head1 SUPPORT You can find this documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Package::Stash You can also look for information at: =over 4 =item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation L =item * CPAN Ratings L =item * RT: CPAN's request tracker L =item * Search CPAN L =back =head1 AUTHOR Jesse Luehrs Mostly copied from code from L, by Stevan Little and the Moose Cabal. =cut 1;