NAME
Class::Rebless - Rebase deep data structures
SYNOPSIS
use Class::Rebless;
my $beat = bless({
one => bless({
hey => 'ho',
}, 'AOne'),
two => bless({
list => [
bless({ three => 3 }, 'AThree'),
bless({ four => 4 }, 'AFour'),
5,
"this is just noise",
],
}, 'ATwo'),
six => {
seven => bless({ __VALUE__ => 7}, 'ASeven'),
eight => bless({ __VALUE__ => 8}, 'AnEight'),
},
}, 'AOne');
Class::Rebless->rebase($beat, 'And');
# $beat now contains objects of type
# And::AOne, And::ATwo .. And::AnEight!
Class::Rebless->rebless($beat, 'Beatless');
# All (blessed) objects in $beat now belong to package
# Beatless.DESCRIPTION
Class::Rebless takes a Perl data structure and recurses through its hierarchy, reblessing objects that it finds along the way into new namespaces. This is typically useful when your object belongs to a package that is too close to the main namespace for your tastes, and you want to rebless everything down to your project's base namespace.
Class::Rebless walks scalar, array, and hash references. It uses Scalar::Util::reftype to discover how to walk blessed objects of any type.
METHODS
Class::Rebless defines only class methods. There is no instance constructor, and when calling these methods you should take care not to call them in function form by mistake; that would not do at all.
Reblessing Methods
All these methods take arguments like this:
Class::Rebless->method($root, $namespace, \%opts);The $root object is the place where the visitor begins to crawl the structure for things to rebless.
The $namespace is used differently by different methods, generally as the class name or partial class name into which to rebless objects. Some reblessing methods may ignore it entirely.
The \%opts hashref is a container for the rest of the options. They are:
editor - the coderef used to rebless; It is called for each object
with the object and $namespace as its argument. This option
is set by default by the "rebless" and "rebase" methods, and
is in fact all they do.
revisit - If true, the visitor will descend into references it has seen
before. By default, it is false, and once a reference has
been visited once, it will not be visited again.rebless
Class::Rebless->rebless($myobj, "New::Namespace");Finds all blessed objects refered to by $myobj and reblesses them into New::Namespace. This completely overrides whatever blessing they had before.
rebase
Class::Rebless->rebase($myobj, "New::Namespace::Root");Finds all blessed objects refered to by $myobj and reblesses them into new namespaces relative to New::Namespace::Root. This overrides whatever blessing they had before, but unlike rebless, it preseves something of the original name. So if you had an object blessed into "MyClass", it will now be blessed into "New::Namespace::Root::MyClass".
custom
Class::Rebless->custom($myobj, "MyName", { editor => \&my_editor });Per each visited object referenced in $myobj, calls my_editor() on it. The editor routine is passed the current object in the recursion and the wanted namespace ("MyName" in the code above). This lets you to do anything you like with each object, but is (at least nominally) intended to allow filtering out objects you don't want to rebless. 3rd party objetcs, for example:
my $fh = IO::File->new("data") or die "open:$!";
my $frobber = Frotz->new({ source => $fh });
Class::Rebless->custom($frobber, "SuperFrotz", { editor => \&noio });
sub noio {
my($obj, $namespace) = @_;
return if ref($obj) =~ /^IO::/;
bless $obj, $namespace . '::' . ref $obj;
}(A more realistic example might actually use an inclusion filter, not an inclusion filter.)
prune
Class::Rebless->prune("__PRUNE__");
Class::Rebless->custom($myobj, "MyName", { editor => \&pruning_editor });When pruning is turned on, a custom reblesser has the opportunity to prune (skip) subtrees in the recursion of $myobj. All it needs to do to signal this is to return the string set in advance with the prune method.
This feature is useful, like custom, for when you don't want to mess with members belonging to 3rd party classes that your object might be holding. Using the noio example above, the "return" can be changed to "return '__PRUNE__'". Anything the IO object refers to will not be visited by Class::Rebless.
CAVEATS
Reblessing a tied object may produce unexpected results.
AUTHOR
Gaal Yahas <gaal@forum2.org>
Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com> has contributed many tests. Thanks!
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org> has contributed bugfixes. Thanks!
COPYRIGHT (The "MIT" License)
Copyright 2004-2011 Gaal Yahas.
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