use HTTP::Request;
use Path::Class;
use URI;
+use Class::Inspector;
=head1 NAME
return $request;
}
+=head2 ensure_class_loaded($class_name)
+
+Loads the class unless it already has been loaded.
+
+=cut
+
+sub ensure_class_loaded {
+ my $class = shift;
+
+ return if Class::Inspector->loaded( $class ); # if a symbol entry exists we don't load again
+
+ # this hack is so we don't overwrite $@ if the load did not generate an error
+ my $error;
+ {
+ local $@;
+ eval "require $class";
+ $error = $@;
+ }
+
+ die $error if $error;
+ die "require $class was successful but the package is not defined"
+ unless Class::Inspector->loaded($class);
+
+ return 1;
+}
+
+=head2 merge_hashes($hashref, $hashref)
+
+Base code to recursively merge two hashes together with right-hand precedence.
+
+=cut
+
+sub merge_hashes {
+ my ( $lefthash, $righthash ) = @_;
+
+ return $lefthash unless defined $righthash;
+
+ my %merged = %$lefthash;
+ for my $key ( keys %$righthash ) {\r
+ my $right_ref = ( ref $righthash->{ $key } || '' ) eq 'HASH';\r
+ my $left_ref = ( ( exists $lefthash->{ $key } && ref $lefthash->{ $key } ) || '' ) eq 'HASH';\r
+ if( $right_ref and $left_ref ) {\r
+ $merged{ $key } = merge_hashes(
+ $lefthash->{ $key }, $righthash->{ $key }
+ );\r
+ }
+ else {
+ $merged{ $key } = $righthash->{ $key };
+ }\r
+ }
+
+ return \%merged;
+}
+
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Sebastian Riedel, C<sri@cpan.org>
+Yuval Kogman, C<nothingmuch@woobling.org>
=head1 COPYRIGHT