# -*- mode: Perl -*- # Data::Compare - compare perl data structures # Author: Fabien Tassin # updated by David Cantrell to cope with # Scalar::Properties without breaking and to fix a potential # bug with use of /o # Copyright 1999-2001 Fabien Tassin package Data::Compare; use strict; use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT $VERSION $DEBUG); use Exporter; use Carp; @ISA = qw(Exporter); @EXPORT = qw(Compare); $VERSION = 0.04; $DEBUG = 0; sub Compare ($$); sub new { my $this = shift; my $class = ref($this) || $this; my $self = {}; bless $self, $class; $self->{'x'} = shift; $self->{'y'} = shift; return $self; } sub Cmp ($;$$) { my $self = shift; croak "Usage: DataCompareObj->Cmp(x, y)" unless $#_ == 1 || $#_ == -1; my $x = shift || $self->{'x'}; my $y = shift || $self->{'y'}; Compare($x, $y); } # Compare a S::P and a scalar sub sp_scalar_compare { my($scalar, $sp) = @_; ($scalar, $sp) = ($sp, $scalar) if(ref($scalar)); return sp_sp_compare($scalar, $sp) if(ref($scalar)); return 1 if($scalar eq $sp); 0; } # Compare two S::Ps sub sp_sp_compare { my($sp1, $sp2) = @_; return 0 unless($sp1 eq $sp2); return 0 unless(Compare([sort $sp1->get_props()], [sort $sp2->get_props()])); return 0 if( grep { !Compare(eval "\$sp1->$_()", eval "\$sp2->$_()") } $sp1->get_props() ); 1; } sub Compare ($$) { croak "Usage: Data::Compare::Compare(x, y)\n" unless $#_ == 1; my $x = shift; my $y = shift; my $refx = ref $x; my $refy = ref $y; if($refx eq 'Scalar::Properties' || $refy eq 'Scalar::Properties') { # at least one S::P return sp_scalar_compare($x, $y); } elsif(!$refx && !$refy) { # both are scalars return $x eq $y if defined $x && defined $y; # both are defined !(defined $x || defined $y); } elsif ($refx ne $refy) { # not the same type 0; } elsif ($x == $y) { # exactly the same reference 1; } elsif ($refx eq 'SCALAR' || $refx eq 'REF') { Compare($$x, $$y); } elsif ($refx eq 'ARRAY') { if ($#$x == $#$y) { # same length my $i = -1; for (@$x) { $i++; return 0 unless Compare($$x[$i], $$y[$i]); } 1; } else { 0; } } elsif ($refx eq 'HASH') { return 0 unless scalar keys %$x == scalar keys %$y; for (keys %$x) { next unless defined $$x{$_} || defined $$y{$_}; return 0 unless defined $$y{$_} && Compare($$x{$_}, $$y{$_}); } 1; } # elsif ($refx eq 'REF') { # 0; # } elsif ($refx eq 'CODE') { 0; } elsif ($refx eq 'GLOB') { 0; } else { # a package name (object blessed) my ($type) = "$x" =~ m/^$refx=(\S+)\(/; if ($type eq 'HASH') { my %x = %$x; my %y = %$y; Compare(\%x, \%y); } elsif ($type eq 'ARRAY') { my @x = @$x; my @y = @$y; Compare(\@x, \@y); } elsif ($type eq 'SCALAR' || $type eq 'REF') { my $x = $$x; my $y = $$y; Compare($x, $y); } elsif ($type eq 'GLOB') { 0; } elsif ($type eq 'CODE') { 0; } else { croak "Can't handle $type type."; } } } 1; =head1 NAME Data::Compare - compare perl data structures =head1 SYNOPSIS use Data::Compare; my $h = { 'foo' => [ 'bar', 'baz' ], 'FOO' => [ 'one', 'two' ] }; my @a1 = ('one', 'two'); my @a2 = ('bar', 'baz'); my %v = ( 'FOO', \@a1, 'foo', \@a2 ); # simple procedural interface print 'structures of $h and \%v are ', Compare($h, \%v) ? "" : "not ", "identical.\n"; # OO usage my $c = new Data::Compare($h, \%v); print 'structures of $h and \%v are ', $c->Cmp ? "" : "not ", "identical.\n"; # or my $c = new Data::Compare; print 'structures of $h and \%v are ', $c->Cmp($h, \%v) ? "" : "not ", "identical.\n"; =head1 DESCRIPTION Compare two perl data structures recursively. Returns 0 if the structures differ, else returns 1. Note that Scalar::Properties objects are a special case. If you compare a scalar and a Scalar::Properties, then they will be considered the same if the two values are the same, regardless of the presence of properties. If you compare two Scalar::Properties objects, then they will only be considered the same if the values and the properties match. =head1 BUGS C cheats with REF, CODE and GLOB references. If such a reference is encountered in a structure being processed, the result is 0 unless references are equal. Currently, there is no way to compare two compiled piece of code with perl so there is no hope to add a better CODE references support in C in a near future. =head1 AUTHOR Fabien Tassin fta@sofaraway.org Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Fabien Tassin. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. David Cantrell david@cantrell.org.uk Seeing that Fabien seems to have disappeared, David Cantrell has become a co-maintainer so he can apply needed patches. The licence, of course, remains the same, and all communications about this module should be CCed to Fabien in case he ever returns and wants his baby back. =head1 SEE ALSO perl(1), perlref(1) =cut