package Params::Validate::Micro; use strict; use warnings; use Params::Validate qw(:all); use Scalar::Util qw(reftype); use Carp qw(croak confess); require Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( all => [qw(micro_validate micro_translate)], ); our @EXPORT_OK = (@{ $EXPORT_TAGS{all} }); =head1 NAME Params::Validate::Micro - Validate parameters concisely =head1 VERSION Version 0.032 =cut our $VERSION = '0.032'; =head1 SYNOPSIS use Params::Validate::Micro qw(:all); use Params::Validate::Micro qw(micro_validate micro_translate); =head1 DESCRIPTION Params::Validate::Micro allows you to concisely represent a list of arguments, their types, and whether or not they are required. Nothing is exported by default. Use C<< :all >> or the specific function name you want. =head1 FORMAT Micro argument strings are made up of lists of parameter names. Each name may have an optional sigil (one of C<< $@% >>), which translate directly to the Params::Validate constrations of SCALAR | OBJECT, ARRAYREF, and HASHREF, respectively. There may be one semicolon (C<< ; >>) in your argument string. If present, any parameters listed after the semicolon are marked as optional. Examples: =over 4 =item Single scalar argument $text =item Hashref and optional scalar %opt; $verbose =item Two arrayrefs and an untyped argument @addrs @lines message =back You may also have an empty argument string. This indicates that you want no parameters at all. =head1 FUNCTIONS =head3 C<< micro_translate >> my %spec = micro_translate($string, $extra); Turns C<< $string >> into a Params::Validate spec as described in L, then merges the resultant spec and the optional C<< $extra >> hashref. This returns a list, which just happens to be a set of key => value pairs. This matters because it means that if you wanted to you could treat it as an array for long enough to figure out what order the parameters were specified in. You could use this to do your own optional positional validation. =head3 C<< micro_validate >> my $arg = micro_validate(\%arg, $string, $extra); my $arg = micro_validate(\@args, $string, $extra); Use C<< micro_translate >> with C<< $string >> and C<< $extra >>, then passes the whole thing to Params::Validate. Named parameters should be passed in as a hashref, and positional parameters as an arrayref. Positional parameters will be associated with names in the order specified in C<< $string >>. For example: micro_validate({ a => 1 }, q{$a; $b}); micro_validate([ 1 ], q{$a; $b}); Both will return this: { a => 1 } When passing positional parameters, C<< micro_validate >> will die if there are either too many for the spec or not enough to fill all non-optional parameters. Returns a hashref of the validated arguments. =cut my $BARE_VAR = qr/[a-z_]\w*/i; my $SIGIL_VAR = qr/[%\$\@]?$BARE_VAR/i; my $EXTRACT_VARS = qr/\A ( (?: \s* ; \s*)? $SIGIL_VAR (?: (?: \s* ; )? \s+ $SIGIL_VAR )* )? \z/x; my %PVSPEC = ( '%' => { type => HASHREF, }, '@' => { type => ARRAYREF, }, '$' => { type => SCALAR | OBJECT, }, ); my ($SIGIL) = map { qr/$_/ } '[' . join("", keys %PVSPEC) . ']'; sub micro_translate { my ($string, $extra) = @_; $string =~ s/^\s*//; $string =~ s/\s*$//; croak "'$string' does not appear to be a micro-spec" unless $string =~ $EXTRACT_VARS; # maybe they want to say "no args at all" return unless defined $1; my @vspecs = grep { length($_) } map { # make sure that semicolons are their own 'word' s/;/ ; /g; split /\s+/; } $string =~ $EXTRACT_VARS; my $optional; my @spec; for my $vspec (@vspecs) { if ($vspec eq ';') { if ($optional++) { croak "micro-spec '$string' contains multiple semicolons"; } next; } my $vname = $vspec; my $spart = {}; while ($vname =~ s/^($SIGIL)//) { my $sigil = $1; $spart = { %$spart, %{$PVSPEC{$sigil} || {}} }; } unless ($vname =~ /\A$BARE_VAR\z/) { croak "illegal parameter name: '$vname'"; } if ($optional) { $spart->{optional} = 1; } if ($extra->{$vname}) { # as of now, the only things that may be already set in $spart are 'type' # and 'optional'. it is therefore safe to naively join the hashes, since # we don't need to worry about more complex cases like merging nested # 'callbacks' entries. re-evaluate this if more complex specs are # being generated automatically. -- hdp, 2007-04-10 %$spart = (%$spart, %{$extra->{$vname}}); } unless (%$spart) { $spart = 1; } push @spec, $vname => $spart; } return @spec; } sub _pos_to_named { my ($string, $args, $spec) = @_; my @tmpspec = @$spec; my @tmpargs = @$args; my $return = {}; while (my ($key, $val) = splice @tmpspec, 0, 2) { unless (@tmpargs) { if (ref($val) eq 'HASH' and $val->{optional}) { last; } else { confess "not enough arguments for '$string' (only got @$args)"; } } $return->{$key} = shift(@tmpargs); } if (@tmpargs) { confess "too many arguments for '$string' (leftover: @tmpargs)"; } return $return; } sub micro_validate { my ($args, $string, $extra) = @_; $args ||= {}; $string ||= ""; $extra ||= {}; my $spec = [ micro_translate($string, $extra) ]; if ($args and reftype($args) eq 'ARRAY') { $args = _pos_to_named($string, $args, $spec); } unless ($args and reftype($args) eq 'HASH') { croak "first argument to micro_validate must be hashref or arrayref"; } return { validate_with( params => $args, spec => { @$spec }, ) }; } =head1 SEE ALSO L =head1 AUTHOR Hans Dieter Pearcey, C<< >> =head1 BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to C, or through the web interface at L. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. =head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2005 Hans Dieter Pearcey, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut 1; # End of Params::Validate::Micro