require 5.004;
use Tie::RefHash;
tie HASHVARIABLE, 'Tie::RefHash', LIST;
+ tie HASHVARIABLE, 'Tie::RefHash::Nestable', LIST;
untie HASHVARIABLE;
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This module provides the ability to use references as hash keys if
-you first C<tie> the hash variable to this module.
+This module provides the ability to use references as hash keys if you
+first C<tie> the hash variable to this module. Normally, only the
+keys of the tied hash itself are preserved as references; to use
+references as keys in hashes-of-hashes, use Tie::RefHash::Nestable,
+included as part of Tie::Hash.
It is implemented using the standard perl TIEHASH interface. Please
see the C<tie> entry in perlfunc(1) and perltie(1) for more information.
+The Nestable version works by looking for hash references being stored
+and converting them to tied hashes so that they too can have
+references as keys. This will happen without warning whenever you
+store a reference to one of your own hashes in the tied hash.
+
=head1 EXAMPLE
use Tie::RefHash;
print ref($_), "\n";
}
+ tie %h, 'Tie::RefHash::Nestable';
+ $h{$a}->{$b} = 1;
+ for (keys %h, keys %{$h{$a}}) {
+ print ref($_), "\n";
+ }
=head1 AUTHOR
sub FETCH {
my($s, $k) = @_;
- (ref $k) ? $s->[0]{"$k"}[1] : $s->[1]{$k};
+ if (ref $k) {
+ if (defined $s->[0]{"$k"}) {
+ $s->[0]{"$k"}[1];
+ }
+ else {
+ undef;
+ }
+ }
+ else {
+ $s->[1]{$k};
+ }
}
sub STORE {
%{$s->[1]} = ();
}
+package Tie::RefHash::Nestable;
+use vars '@ISA'; @ISA = qw(Tie::RefHash);
+
+sub STORE {
+ my($s, $k, $v) = @_;
+ if (ref($v) eq 'HASH' and not tied %$v) {
+ my @elems = %$v;
+ tie %$v, ref($s), @elems;
+ }
+ $s->SUPER::STORE($k, $v);
+}
+
1;
--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#
+# Basic test suite for Tie::RefHash and Tie::RefHash::Nestable.
+#
+# The testing is in two parts: first, run lots of tests on both a tied
+# hash and an ordinary un-tied hash, and check they give the same
+# answer. Then there are tests for those cases where the tied hashes
+# should behave differently to normal hashes, that is, when using
+# references as keys.
+#
+
+BEGIN {
+ chdir 't' if -d 't';
+ @INC = '.';
+ push @INC, '../lib';
+}
+
+use strict;
+use Tie::RefHash;
+use Data::Dumper;
+my $numtests = 34;
+my $currtest = 1;
+print "1..$numtests\n";
+
+my $ref = []; my $ref1 = [];
+
+# Test standard hash functionality, by performing the same operations
+# on a tied hash and on a normal hash, and checking that the results
+# are the same. This does of course assume that Perl hashes are not
+# buggy :-)
+#
+my @tests = standard_hash_tests();
+my @ordinary_results = runtests(\@tests, undef);
+foreach my $class ('Tie::RefHash', 'Tie::RefHash::Nestable') {
+ my @tied_results = runtests(\@tests, $class);
+ my $all_ok = 1;
+
+ die if @ordinary_results != @tied_results;
+ foreach my $i (0 .. $#ordinary_results) {
+ my ($or, $ow, $oe) = @{$ordinary_results[$i]};
+ my ($tr, $tw, $te) = @{$tied_results[$i]};
+
+ my $ok = 1;
+ local $^W = 0;
+ $ok = 0 if (defined($or) != defined($tr)) or ($or ne $tr);
+ $ok = 0 if (defined($ow) != defined($tw)) or ($ow ne $tw);
+ $ok = 0 if (defined($oe) != defined($te)) or ($oe ne $te);
+
+ if (not $ok) {
+ print STDERR
+ "failed for $class: $tests[$i]\n",
+ "ordinary hash gave:\n",
+ defined $or ? "\tresult: $or\n" : "\tundef result\n",
+ defined $ow ? "\twarning: $ow\n" : "\tno warning\n",
+ defined $oe ? "\texception: $oe\n" : "\tno exception\n",
+ "tied $class hash gave:\n",
+ defined $tr ? "\tresult: $tr\n" : "\tundef result\n",
+ defined $tw ? "\twarning: $tw\n" : "\tno warning\n",
+ defined $te ? "\texception: $te\n" : "\tno exception\n",
+ "\n";
+ $all_ok = 0;
+ }
+ }
+ test($all_ok);
+}
+
+# Now test Tie::RefHash's special powers
+my (%h, $h);
+eval { $h = tie %h, 'Tie::RefHash' };
+warn $@ if $@;
+test(not $@);
+test(ref($h) eq 'Tie::RefHash');
+test(defined(tied(%h)) and tied(%h) =~ /^Tie::RefHash/);
+$h{$ref} = 'cholet';
+test($h{$ref} eq 'cholet');
+test(exists $h{$ref});
+test((keys %h) == 1);
+test(ref((keys %h)[0]) eq 'ARRAY');
+test((keys %h)[0] eq $ref);
+test((values %h) == 1);
+test((values %h)[0] eq 'cholet');
+my $count = 0;
+while (my ($k, $v) = each %h) {
+ if ($count++ == 0) {
+ test(ref($k) eq 'ARRAY');
+ test($k eq $ref);
+ }
+}
+test($count == 1);
+delete $h{$ref};
+test(not defined $h{$ref});
+test(not exists($h{$ref}));
+test((keys %h) == 0);
+test((values %h) == 0);
+undef $h;
+untie %h;
+
+# And now Tie::RefHash::Nestable's differences from Tie::RefHash.
+eval { $h = tie %h, 'Tie::RefHash::Nestable' };
+warn $@ if $@;
+test(not $@);
+test(ref($h) eq 'Tie::RefHash::Nestable');
+test(defined(tied(%h)) and tied(%h) =~ /^Tie::RefHash::Nestable/);
+$h{$ref}->{$ref1} = 'bungo';
+test($h{$ref}->{$ref1} eq 'bungo');
+
+# Test that the nested hash is also tied (for current implementation)
+test(defined(tied(%{$h{$ref}}))
+ and tied(%{$h{$ref}}) =~ /^Tie::RefHash::Nestable=/ );
+
+test((keys %h) == 1);
+test((keys %h)[0] eq $ref);
+test((keys %{$h{$ref}}) == 1);
+test((keys %{$h{$ref}})[0] eq $ref1);
+
+die "expected to run $numtests tests, but ran ", $currtest - 1
+ if $currtest - 1 != $numtests;
+exit();
+
+
+# Print 'ok X' if true, 'not ok X' if false
+# Uses global $currtest.
+#
+sub test {
+ my $t = shift;
+ print 'not ' if not $t;
+ print 'ok ', $currtest++, "\n";
+}
+
+
+# Wrapper for Data::Dumper to 'dump' a scalar as an EXPR string.
+sub dumped {
+ my $s = shift;
+ my $d = Dumper($s);
+ $d =~ s/^\$VAR1 =\s*//;
+ $d =~ s/;$//;
+ chomp $d;
+ return $d;
+}
+
+# Crudely dump a hash into a canonical string representation (because
+# hash keys can appear in any order, Data::Dumper may give different
+# strings for the same hash).
+#
+sub dumph {
+ my $h = shift;
+ my $r = '';
+ foreach (sort keys %$h) {
+ $r = dumped($_) . ' => ' . dumped($h->{$_}) . "\n";
+ }
+ return $r;
+}
+
+# Run the tests and give results.
+#
+# Parameters: reference to list of tests to run
+# name of class to use for tied hash, or undef if not tied
+#
+# Returns: list of [R, W, E] tuples, one for each test.
+# R is the return value from running the test, W any warnings it gave,
+# and E any exception raised with 'die'. E and W will be tidied up a
+# little to remove irrelevant details like line numbers :-)
+#
+# Will also run a few of its own 'ok N' tests.
+#
+sub runtests {
+ my ($tests, $class) = @_;
+ my @r;
+
+ my (%h, $h);
+ if (defined $class) {
+ eval { $h = tie %h, $class };
+ warn $@ if $@;
+ test(not $@);
+ test(ref($h) eq $class);
+ test(defined(tied(%h)) and tied(%h) =~ /^\Q$class\E/);
+ }
+
+ foreach (@$tests) {
+ my ($result, $warning, $exception);
+ local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { $warning .= $_[0] };
+ $result = scalar(eval $_);
+ $exception = $@ if $@;
+
+ foreach ($warning, $exception) {
+ next if not defined;
+ s/ at .+ line \d+\.$//mg;
+ s/ at .+ line \d+, at .*//mg;
+ s/ at .+ line \d+, near .*//mg;
+ }
+
+ my (@warnings, %seen);
+ foreach (split /\n/, $warning) {
+ push @warnings, $_ unless $seen{$_}++;
+ }
+ $warning = join("\n", @warnings);
+
+ push @r, [ $result, $warning, $exception ];
+ }
+
+ return @r;
+}
+
+
+# Things that should work just the same for an ordinary hash and a
+# Tie::RefHash.
+#
+# Each test is a code string to be eval'd, it should do something with
+# %h and give a scalar return value. The global $ref and $ref1 may
+# also be used.
+#
+# One thing we don't test is that the ordering from 'keys', 'values'
+# and 'each' is the same. You can't reasonably expect that.
+#
+sub standard_hash_tests {
+ my @r;
+
+ # Library of standard tests on keys, values and each
+ my $STD_TESTS = <<'END'
+ join $;, sort keys %h;
+ join $;, sort values %h;
+ { my ($v, %tmp); %tmp{$v}++ while (defined($v = each %h)); dumph(\%tmp) }
+ { my ($k, $v, %tmp); $tmp{"$k$;$v"}++ while (($k, $v) = each %h); dumph(\%t
+mp) }
+END
+ ;
+
+ # Tests on the existence of the element 'foo'
+ my $FOO_TESTS = <<'END'
+ defined $h{foo};
+ exists $h{foo};
+ $h{foo};
+END
+ ;
+
+ # Test storing and deleting 'foo'
+ push @r, split /\n/, <<"END"
+ $STD_TESTS;
+ $FOO_TESTS;
+ \$h{foo} = undef;
+ $STD_TESTS;
+ $FOO_TESTS;
+ \$h{foo} = 'hello';
+ $STD_TESTS;
+ $FOO_TESTS;
+ delete \$h{foo};
+ $STD_TESTS;
+ $FOO_TESTS;
+END
+ ;
+
+ # Test storing and removing under ordinary keys
+ my @things = ('boink', 0, 1, '', undef);
+ foreach my $key (map { dumped($_) } @things) {
+ foreach my $value ((map { dumped($_) } @things), '$ref') {
+ push @r, split /\n/, <<"END"
+ \$h{$key} = $value;
+ $STD_TESTS;
+ defined \$h{$key};
+ exists \$h{$key};
+ \$h{$key};
+ delete \$h{$key};
+ $STD_TESTS;
+ defined \$h{$key};
+ exists \$h{$key};
+ \$h{$key};
+END
+ ;
+ }
+ }
+
+ # Test hash slices
+ my @slicetests;
+ @slicetests = split /\n/, <<'END'
+ @h{} = ();
+ @h{} = ('a');
+ @h{'b'} = ();
+ @h{'c'} = ('d');
+ @h{'e'} = ('f', 'g');
+ @h{'h', 'i'} = ();
+ @h{'j', 'k'} = ('l');
+ @h{'m', 'n'} = ('o', 'p');
+ @h{'q', 'r'} = ('s', 't', 'u');
+END
+ ;
+ my @aaa = @slicetests;
+ foreach (@slicetests) {
+ push @r, $_;
+ push @r, split(/\n/, $STD_TESTS);
+ }
+
+ # Test CLEAR
+ push @r, 'clear %h', split(/\n/, $STD_TESTS);
+
+ return @r;
+}
+