NAME

Acme::CPANModules::HidingModules - Hiding modules

VERSION

This document describes version 0.003 of Acme::CPANModules::HidingModules (from Perl distribution Acme-CPANModules-HidingModules), released on 2020-02-13.

DESCRIPTION

Hiding modules.

So you want to convince some Perl code that some modules that are installed, aren't (usually for testing purposes)? There are several ways to go about it, with different effects and levels of convincing.

Loading modules

Most of the time, you just want to make certain modules not loadable (by require or use). To do this, you usually install a hook at the first element of @INC. The hook would die when it receives a request to load a modules that you want to hide. Some tools that work this way include:

lib::filter family, including its thin wrapper lib::disallow. lib::filter supports hiding (non-)core modules in addition to the specific ones you mentioned. It also supports recursive allowing (i.e. you want to allow Moo and all the modules that Moo loads, and all the modules that they load, and so on).

Devel::Hide, which also plans to support hiding (non-)core modules.

Test::Without::Module.

Finding module's path

Depending on which tool you use to find a module's path, here are some patches you can load to fool the finder tool.

Module::Path::Patch::Hide

Module::Path::More::Patch::Hide

Listing installed modules

Depending on which tool you use to find a module's path, here are some patches you can load to fool the lister tool.

Module::List::Patch::Hide

PERLANCAR::Module::List::Patch::Hide

Module::List::Tiny::Patch::Hide

Module::List::Wildcard::Patch::Hide

Hard-core hiding

To fool code that tries to find the module files themselves without using any module, i.e. by iterating @INC, you will need to actually (temporarily) rename the module files. LApp::pmhiderename and lib::hiderename does this.

INCLUDED MODULES

• lib::filter

• lib::disallow

• Devel::Hide

• Test::Without::Module

• Module::Path::Patch::Hide

• Module::Path::More::Patch::Hide

• Module::List::Patch::Hide

• PERLANCAR::Module::List::Patch::Hide

• Module::List::Tiny::Patch::Hide

• Module::List::Wildcard::Patch::Hide

• App::pmhiderename

FAQ

What are ways to use this module?

Aside from reading it, you can install all the listed modules using cpanmodules:

% cpanmodules ls-entries HidingModules | cpanm -n

or Acme::CM::Get:

% perl -MAcme::CM::Get=HidingModules -E'say $_->{module} for @{ $LIST->{entries} }' | cpanm -n

This module also helps lcpan produce a more meaningful result for lcpan related-mods when it comes to finding related modules for the modules listed in this Acme::CPANModules module.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Acme-CPANModules-HidingModules.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Acme-CPANModules-HidingModules.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Acme-CPANModules-HidingModules

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Acme::CPANModules - about the Acme::CPANModules namespace

cpanmodules - CLI tool to let you browse/view the lists

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020, 2019 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Acme::CPANModules::HidingModules

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Acme::CPANModules::HidingModules