#!/usr/bin/perl package Devel::StringInfo; use Moose; our $VERSION = "0.02"; use utf8 (); use Encode qw(decode encode); use Encode::Guess (); use Scalar::Util qw(looks_like_number); use Tie::IxHash; has guess_encoding => ( isa => "Bool", is => "rw", default => 1, ); has encoding_suspects => ( isa => "ArrayRef", is => "rw", auto_deref => 1, default => sub { [] }, ); has include_value_info => ( isa => "Bool", is => "rw", default => 0, ); has include_decoded => ( isa => "Bool", is => "rw", default => 1, ); has include_hex => ( isa => "Bool", is => "rw", default => 0, ); has include_raw => ( isa => "Bool", is => "rw", default => 1, ); sub sorted_hash { my ( @args ) = @_; tie my %hash, 'Tie::IxHash', @args; return \%hash, } sub dump_info { my ( $self, $string, @args ) = @_; require YAML; local $YAML::SortKeys = 0; # let IxHash decide local $YAML::UseHeader = 0; my $dump = YAML::Dump(sorted_hash @args, $self->filter_data( $self->gather_data($string) )); if ( $self->include_raw ) { if ( $string =~ /\n/s ) { $dump .= "raw = <include_hex ) { require Data::HexDump::XXD; $dump .= Data::HexDump::XXD::xxd($string) . "\n"; } if ( defined wantarray ) { return $dump; } else { warn "$dump\n"; } } sub filter_data { my ( $self, @args ) = @_; return @args; # FIXME strip out false keys if omit_false, etc } sub gather_data { my ( $self, $string ) = @_; my @ret = ( string => $string, $self->gather_data_unicode($string), ( $self->include_value_info ? $self->gather_data_value($string) : () ),, ); wantarray ? @ret : sorted_hash(@ret); } sub gather_data_unicode { my ( $self, $string ) = @_; if ( utf8::is_utf8($string) ) { return ( $self->gather_data_is_unicode($string), ); } else { return ( $self->gather_data_is_octets($string), ) } } sub gather_data_vlaue { my ( $self, $string ) = @_; for ( $string ) { return ( is_alphanumeric => 0+ /^[[:alnum:]]+$/s, is_printable => 0+ /^[[:print:]+]$/s, is_ascii => 0+ /^[[:ascii:]+]$/s, has_zero => 0+ /\x{00}/s, has_line_ending => 0+ /[\r\n]/s, looks_like_number => looks_like_number($string), ); } } sub gather_data_is_unicode { my ( $self, $string ) = @_; return ( is_utf8 => 1, char_length => length($string), octet_length => length(encode(utf8 => $string)), downgradable => 0+ do { my $copy = $string; utf8::downgrade($copy, 1); # fail OK }, ); } sub gather_data_is_octets { my ( $self, $string ) = @_; return ( is_utf8 => 0, octet_length => length($string), ( utf8::valid($string) ? $self->gather_data_utf8_octets($string) : $self->gather_data_non_utf8_octets($string) ), ); } sub gather_data_utf8_octets { my ( $self, $string ) = @_; my $decoded = decode( utf8 => $string ); my $guessed = sorted_hash $self->gather_data_encoding_info($string); if ( ($guessed->{guessed_encoding}||'') eq 'utf8' ) { return ( valid_utf8 => 1, ( $self->include_decoded ? $self->gather_data_decoded( $decoded, $string ) : () ),, ); } else { return ( valid_utf8 => 1, ( $self->include_decoded ? ( as_utf8 => sorted_hash($self->gather_data_decoded( $decoded, $string ) ), as_guess => $guessed, ) : () ), ); } } sub gather_data_non_utf8_octets { my ( $self, $string ) = @_; return ( valid_utf8 => 0, $self->gather_data_encoding_info($string), ); } sub gather_data_encoding_info { my ( $self, $string ) = @_; return unless $self->guess_encoding; my $decoder = Encode::Guess::guess_encoding( $string, $self->encoding_suspects ); if ( ref $decoder ) { my $decoded = $decoder->decode($string); return ( guessed_encoding => $decoder->name, ( $self->include_decoded ? $self->gather_data_decoded( $decoded, $string ) : () ), ); } else { return ( guess_error => $decoder, ); } } sub gather_data_decoded { my ( $self, $decoded, $string ) = @_; if ( $string ne $decoded ) { return ( decoded_is_same => 0, decoded => { string => $decoded, $self->gather_data($decoded), } ); } else { return ( decoded_is_same => 1, ); } } __PACKAGE__; __END__ =pod =head1 NAME Devel::StringInfo - Gather information about strings =head1 SYNOPSIS my $string = get_string_from_somewhere(); # warn()s a YAML dump in void context Devel::StringInfo->new->dump_info($string); my $d = Devel::StringInfo->new( %opts, ); my %hash = $d->gather_data( $string ); warn "it's a utf8 string" if $hash{is_utf8}; =head1 DESCRIPTION This module is a debugging aid that helps figure out more information about strings. Perl has two main "types" of strings, unicode strings (C returns true), and octet strings (just a bunch of bytes). Depending on the source of the data, what data it interacted with, as well as the fact that Perl may implicitly upgrade octet streams which represent strings in the native encoding to unicode strings, it's sometimes hard to know what exactly is going on with a string. This module clumps together a bunch of checks you can perform on a string to figure out what's in it. =head1 ATTRIBUTES =over 4 =item guess_encoding Whether or not to use L to guess the encoding of the data if it's not a unicode string. =item encoding_suspects The list of suspect encodings. See L. Defaults to the empty list, which is a special case for L. =item include_value_info Include some information about the string value (does it contain C<0x00> chars, is it alphanumeric, does it have newlines, etc). =item include_decoded Whether to include a recursive dump of the decoded versions of a non unicode string. =item include_hex Whether to include a L dump in C. =item include_raw Whether to include a simple interpolation of the string in C. =back =head1 METHODS =over 4 =item dump_info $string, %extra_fields Use L to dump information about $string. In void context prints, in other contexts returns the dump string. If C is set then a "raw" version (no escaping of the string) is appended with some boundry markings. This can help understand what's going on if L's escaping is confusing. If C is set then L will be required and used to dump the value as well. =item gather_data $string, %opts Gathers information about the string. Calls various other C methods internally. Used by C to dump the results. In scalar context returns a hash reference, in list context key value pairs. All hash references are tied to L in order to be layed out logically in the dump. C<%opts> is not yet used but may be in the future. =back =head1 AUTHOR Yuval Kogman =head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright (c) 2007 Yuval Kogman. All rights reserved This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT license or the same terms as Perl itself. =cut