NAME

Attean::TreeRewriter - Walk and rewrite subtrees

VERSION

This document describes Attean::TreeRewriter version 0.035

SYNOPSIS

  use v5.14;
  use Attean;
  my $w = Attean::TreeRewriter->new();
  my ($rewritten, $tree) = $w->rewrite($tree, $thunk);
  if ($rewritten) {
	...
  }

DESCRIPTION

The Attean::TreeRewriter class walks the nodes of query trees and rewrites sub-trees based on handlers that have been registered prior to rewriting.

ROLES

None.

METHODS

register_pre_handler( \&code )

Register a handler that will be called for each sub-tree during tree rewriting.

The function will be called as &code( $tree, $parent_node, $thunk ) where $thunk is an opaque value passed to rewrite.

The function must return a list ($handled, $descend, $rewritten). $handled is a boolean indicating whether the handler function rewrote the sub-tree, which is returned as $rewritten. The $descend boolean value indicates whether the the tree rewriting should continue downwards in the tree.

rewrite( $tree, $thunk, \%seen, $parent )

Rewrites the given $tree using the registered handler functions. $thunk is passed through to each handler function. %seen is currently unused. $parent is passed through to the handler functions as the value of the pseudo-parent tree node for $tree.

Returns a list ($handled, $tree) with $handled indicating whether rewriting was performed, with the corresponding rewritten $tree.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to through the GitHub web interface at https://github.com/kasei/attean/issues.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Gregory Todd Williams <gwilliams@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2014--2022 Gregory Todd Williams. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.