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use strict;
package Sub::Exporter::ForMethods 0.100055;
# ABSTRACT: helper routines for using Sub::Exporter to build methods
use Scalar::Util ();
use Sub::Util ();
use Sub::Exporter 0.978 -setup => {
exports => [ qw(method_installer method_goto_installer) ],
};
#pod =head1 SYNOPSIS
#pod
#pod In an exporting library:
#pod
#pod package Method::Builder;
#pod
#pod use Sub::Exporter::ForMethods qw(method_installer);
#pod
#pod use Sub::Exporter -setup => {
#pod exports => [ method => \'_method_generator' ],
#pod installer => method_installer,
#pod };
#pod
#pod sub _method_generator {
#pod my ($self, $name, $arg, $col) = @_;
#pod return sub { ... };
#pod };
#pod
#pod In an importing library:
#pod
#pod package Vehicle::Autobot;
#pod use Method::Builder method => { -as => 'transform' };
#pod
#pod =head1 DESCRIPTION
#pod
#pod The synopsis section, above, looks almost indistinguishable from any other
#pod use of L<Sub::Exporter|Sub::Exporter>, apart from the use of
#pod C<method_installer>. It is nearly indistinguishable in behavior, too. The
#pod only change is that subroutines exported from Method::Builder into named slots
#pod in Vehicle::Autobot will be wrapped in a subroutine called
#pod C<Vehicle::Autobot::transform>. This will insert a named frame into stack
#pod traces to aid in debugging.
#pod
#pod More importantly (for the author, anyway), they will not be removed by
#pod L<namespace::autoclean|namespace::autoclean>. This makes the following code
#pod work:
#pod
#pod package MyLibrary;
#pod
#pod use Math::Trig qw(tan); # uses Exporter.pm
#pod use String::Truncate qw(trunc); # uses Sub::Exporter's defaults
#pod
#pod use Sub::Exporter::ForMethods qw(method_installer);
#pod use Mixin::Linewise { installer => method_installer }, qw(read_file);
#pod
#pod use namespace::autoclean;
#pod
#pod ...
#pod
#pod 1;
#pod
#pod After MyLibrary is compiled, C<namespace::autoclean> will remove C<tan> and
#pod C<trunc> as foreign contaminants, but will leave C<read_file> in place. It
#pod will also remove C<method_installer>, an added win.
#pod
#pod =head1 EXPORTS
#pod
#pod Sub::Exporter::ForMethods offers only one routine for export, and it may also
#pod be called by its full package name:
#pod
#pod =head2 method_installer
#pod
#pod my $installer = method_installer(\%arg);
#pod
#pod This routine returns an installer suitable for use as the C<installer> argument
#pod to Sub::Exporter. It updates the C<\@to_export> argument to wrap all code that
#pod will be installed by name in a named subroutine, then passes control to the
#pod default Sub::Exporter installer.
#pod
#pod The only argument to C<method_installer> is an optional hashref which may
#pod contain a single entry for C<rebless>. If the value for C<rebless> is true,
#pod when a blessed subroutine is wrapped, the wrapper will be blessed into the same
#pod package.
#pod
#pod =cut
sub method_installer {
_generic_method_installer(
sub { my $code = shift; sub { $code->(@_) } },
@_,
);
}
sub method_goto_installer {
_generic_method_installer(
sub { my $code = shift; sub { goto &$code } },
@_,
);
}
sub _generic_method_installer {
my $generator = shift;
my ($mxi_arg) = @_;
my $rebless = $mxi_arg->{rebless};
sub {
my ($arg, $to_export) = @_;
my $into = $arg->{into};
for (my $i = 0; $i < @$to_export; $i += 2) {
my ($as, $code) = @$to_export[ $i, $i+1 ];
next if ref $as;
my $sub = $generator->($code);
if ($rebless and defined (my $code_pkg = Scalar::Util::blessed($code))) {
bless $sub, $code_pkg;
}
$to_export->[ $i + 1 ] = Sub::Util::set_subname(
join(q{::}, $into, $as),
$sub,
);
}
Sub::Exporter::default_installer($arg, $to_export);
};
}
1;
__END__
=pod
=encoding UTF-8
=head1 NAME
Sub::Exporter::ForMethods - helper routines for using Sub::Exporter to build methods
=head1 VERSION
version 0.100055
=head1 SYNOPSIS
In an exporting library:
package Method::Builder;
use Sub::Exporter::ForMethods qw(method_installer);
use Sub::Exporter -setup => {
exports => [ method => \'_method_generator' ],
installer => method_installer,
};
sub _method_generator {
my ($self, $name, $arg, $col) = @_;
return sub { ... };
};
In an importing library:
package Vehicle::Autobot;
use Method::Builder method => { -as => 'transform' };
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The synopsis section, above, looks almost indistinguishable from any other
use of L<Sub::Exporter|Sub::Exporter>, apart from the use of
C<method_installer>. It is nearly indistinguishable in behavior, too. The
only change is that subroutines exported from Method::Builder into named slots
in Vehicle::Autobot will be wrapped in a subroutine called
C<Vehicle::Autobot::transform>. This will insert a named frame into stack
traces to aid in debugging.
More importantly (for the author, anyway), they will not be removed by
L<namespace::autoclean|namespace::autoclean>. This makes the following code
work:
package MyLibrary;
use Math::Trig qw(tan); # uses Exporter.pm
use String::Truncate qw(trunc); # uses Sub::Exporter's defaults
use Sub::Exporter::ForMethods qw(method_installer);
use Mixin::Linewise { installer => method_installer }, qw(read_file);
use namespace::autoclean;
...
1;
After MyLibrary is compiled, C<namespace::autoclean> will remove C<tan> and
C<trunc> as foreign contaminants, but will leave C<read_file> in place. It
will also remove C<method_installer>, an added win.
=head1 PERL VERSION
This library should run on perls released even a long time ago. It should work
on any version of perl released in the last five years.
Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the
minimum required version will not be increased. The version may be increased
for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower
the minimum required perl.
=head1 EXPORTS
Sub::Exporter::ForMethods offers only one routine for export, and it may also
be called by its full package name:
=head2 method_installer
my $installer = method_installer(\%arg);
This routine returns an installer suitable for use as the C<installer> argument
to Sub::Exporter. It updates the C<\@to_export> argument to wrap all code that
will be installed by name in a named subroutine, then passes control to the
default Sub::Exporter installer.
The only argument to C<method_installer> is an optional hashref which may
contain a single entry for C<rebless>. If the value for C<rebless> is true,
when a blessed subroutine is wrapped, the wrapper will be blessed into the same
package.
=head1 AUTHOR
Ricardo Signes <cpan@semiotic.systems>
=head1 CONTRIBUTOR
=for stopwords Ricardo Signes
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems>
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2022 by Ricardo Signes.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
=cut