# $Id: Brick.pm 2275 2007-05-10 19:43:45Z comdog $ package Brick; use strict; use subs qw(); use vars qw($VERSION); use Carp qw( carp croak ); use Data::Dumper; use UNIVERSAL qw(isa); use Brick::Profile; $VERSION = '0.223'; #sprintf "0.%04d_01", q$Revision: 2275 $ =~ m/(\d+)/g; =head1 NAME Brick - Complex business rule data validation =head1 SYNOPSIS use Brick; my $brick = Brick->new( { external_packages => [ qw(Foo::Validator Bar::Validator) ] } ); my $profile = Brick::Profile->new( $brick, [ required => sub { .... } => $hash ], [ optional => optional_fields => $hash ], [ inside => in_number => $hash ], [ outside => ex_number => $hash ], ); my %input_from_app = ( name => 'Joe Snuffy', ... ); my $results = $brick->apply( $profile, \%%input_from_app ); =head1 DESCRIPTION =head2 Class methods =over 4 =item Brick->new Create a new C. Currently this doesn't do anything other than give you an object so you can call methods. Future ideas? Maybe store several buckets or profiles? =cut sub new { my( $class, $args ) = @_; my $self = bless {}, $class; $self->init( $args ); $self->_load_external_packages( @{ $args->{external_packages} } ); $self; } sub _load_external_packages { my( $self, @packages ) = @_; my $bucket_class = $self->bucket_class; foreach my $package ( @packages ) { eval "package $bucket_class; require $package; $package->import"; croak "Could not load $package: $@" if $@; } } =item Brick->error( MESSAGE ) Set the error message from the last things that happened. =item Brick->error_str Get the error message from the last things that happened. =cut { my $Error; sub error { $_[0]->_set_error( $_[1] ); croak $_[1]; } sub error_str { $Error } # do some stuff to figure out caller, etc sub _set_error { $Error = $_[1] } } =back =head2 Instance methods =over 4 =item create_bucket( PROFILE_ARRAYREF ) =item create_pool # DEPRECATED This method creates a C instance (or an instance in the package returned by C<$brick->bucket_class> ) based on the profile and returns the bucket instance. Along the way it affects the args hashref in each profile element to add the element name as the key C and the actual coderef (not just the method name) as the key C. The closure generators are allowed to use those keys. For instance, C<__make_constraint>, which is usually the top level closure, uses it to name the closure in the bucket. If the profile doesn't pass C test, this method croaks. You might want to safeguard that by calling C first. my $bucket = do { if( my( $lint ) = $brick->lint( $profile ) ) { $brick->create_bucket( $profile ); } else { Data::Dumper->Dump( [ $lint ], [qw(lint)] ); undef; } }; From the profile it extracts the method name to create the closure for it based on its arguments. If the method item is already a code reference it uses it add is, but still adds it to the bucket. This could be handy for using closures from other classes, but I haven't investigated the consequences of that. In scalar context this returns a new bucket instance. If the profile might be bad, use an eval to catch the croak: my $bucket = eval{ $brick->create_bucket( \@profile ) }; In list context, it returns the C<$bucket> instance and an anonymous array reference with the stringified closures (which are also the keys in the bucket). The elements in the anonymous array correspond to the elements in the profile. This is handy in C which needs to find the bucket entries for each profile elements. You probably won't need the second argument most of the time. my( $bucket, $refs ) = eval { $brick->create_bucket( \@profile ) }; =cut sub create_pool { croak "create_pool is now create_bucket!" } sub create_bucket { my( $brick, $profile ) = @_; unless( 0 == $brick->profile_class->lint( $profile || [] ) ) # zero but true! { croak "Bad profile for create_bucket! Perhaps you need to check it with lint" }; my $bucket = $brick->bucket_class->new; my @coderefs = (); foreach my $entry ( @$profile ) { my( $name, $method, $args ) = @$entry; $args->{profile_name} = $name; $args->{code} = do { if( eval { $method->isa( ref {} ) } or UNIVERSAL::isa( $method, ref sub {} ) ) { $method; } elsif( my $code = eval{ $bucket->$method( $args ) } ) { $code; } elsif( $@ ) { croak $@ } }; push @coderefs, map { "$_" } $bucket->add_to_bucket( $args ); } wantarray ? ( $bucket, \@coderefs ) : $bucket; } =item init Initialize the instance, or return it to a pristine state. Normally you don't have to do this because C does it for you, but if you subclass this you might want to override it. =cut sub init { my( $self, $args ) = @_; my $bucket_class = $self->bucket_class; eval "require $bucket_class"; $self->{buckets} = []; if( defined $args->{external_packages} && UNIVERSAL::isa( $args->{external_packages}, ref [] ) ) { # defined and array ref $self->{external_packages} = $args->{external_packages}; } elsif( defined $args->{external_packages} && ! UNIVERSAL::isa( $args->{external_packages}, ref [] ) ) { # defined but not array ref carp "'external_packages' value must be an anonymous array"; $self->{external_packages} = []; } else { # not defined $self->{external_packages} = []; } } =item add_validator_packages( PACKAGES ) Load external validator packages into the bucket. Each of these packages should export the functions they want to make available. C Cs each package and calls its C routine. =cut sub add_validator_packages { my( $self, @packages ) = @_; $self->_load_external_packages( @packages ); } =item clone; Based on the current instance, create another one just like it but not connected to it (in effect forking the instance). After the C you can change new instance without affecting the old one. This is handy in C, for instance, where I want a deep copy for a moment. At least I think I want a deep copy. That's the idea. Right now this just returns the same instance. When not using a copy breaks, I'll fix that. =cut sub clone { my( $brick ) = shift; $brick; } sub explain { croak "Who's calling Brick::explain? That's in Brick::Profile now!"; } =item apply( PROFILE OBJECT, INPUT_DATA_HASHREF ) Apply the profile to the data in the input hash reference. The profile can either be a profile object or an array ref that apply() will use to create the profile object. This returns a results object blessed into the class name returned by results_class(), which is Brick::Result by default. If you don't like that, you can override it in your own subclass. =cut sub apply { my( $brick, $profile, $input ) = @_; croak "Did not get a profile object in Brick::apply()!\n" unless eval { $profile->isa( $brick->profile_class ) }; my $bucket = $profile->get_bucket; my $coderefs = $profile->get_coderefs; my $array = $profile->get_array; my @entries = map { my $e = $bucket->get_from_bucket( $_ ); [ map { $e->$_ } qw(get_coderef get_name) ] } @$coderefs; my @results = (); foreach my $index ( 0 .. $#entries ) { my $e = $entries[$index]; my $name = $array->[$index][0]; my $bucket_entry = $bucket->get_from_bucket( "$e->[0]" ); my $sub_name = $bucket_entry->get_name; my $result = eval{ $e->[0]->( $input ) }; my $eval_error = $@; carp "Brick: $sub_name: eval error \$\@ is not a string or hash reference" unless( ! ref $eval_error or UNIVERSAL::isa( $eval_error, ref {} ) ); if( defined $eval_error and isa( $eval_error, ref {} ) ) { $result = 0; carp "Brick: $sub_name died with reference, but didn't define 'handler' key" unless exists $eval_error->{handler}; carp "Brick: $sub_name died with reference, but didn't define 'message' key" unless exists $eval_error->{message}; } elsif( defined $eval_error ) # but not a reference { $eval_error = { handler => 'program_error', message => $eval_error, program_error => 1, errors => [], }; } my $handler = $array->[$index][1]; my $result_item = $brick->result_class->result_item_class->new( label => $name, method => $handler, result => $result, messages => $eval_error, ); push @results, $result_item; } return bless \@results, $brick->result_class; } =item bucket_class The namespace where the constraint building blocks are defined. By default this is C. If you don't like that, override this in a subclass. Things that need to work with the bucket class name, such as a factory method, will use the return value of this method. This method also loads the right class, so if you override it, remember to load the class too! =cut sub bucket_class { require Brick::Bucket; 'Brick::Bucket' } =item result_class The namespace that C uses for its result object. By default this is C. If you don't like that, override this in a subclass. Things that need to work with the result class name, such as a factory method, will use the return value of this method. This method also loads the right class, so if you override it, remember to load the class too! =cut sub result_class { require Brick::Result; 'Brick::Result' } =item profile_class The namespace for the profile object. By default this is C. If you don't like that, override this in a subclass. Things that need to work with the result class name, such as a factory method, will use the return value of this method. This method also loads the right class, so if you override it, remember to load the class too! =cut sub profile_class { require Brick::Profile; 'Brick::Profile' } =back =head1 TO DO TBA =head1 SEE ALSO L, L =head1 SOURCE AVAILABILITY This source is part of a SourceForge project which always has the latest sources in SVN, as well as all of the previous releases. svn co https://brian-d-foy.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brian-d-foy brian-d-foy If, for some reason, I disappear from the world, one of the other members of the project can shepherd this module appropriately. =head1 AUTHOR brian d foy, C<< >> =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2007, brian d foy, All Rights Reserved. You may redistribute this under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut 1;