package MooseX::Types::Structured;
use 5.008;
+
use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
use MooseX::Meta::TypeConstraint::Structured;
+use MooseX::Types::Structured::OverflowHandler;
use MooseX::Types -declare => [qw(Dict Tuple Optional)];
+use Sub::Exporter -setup => { exports => [ qw(Dict Tuple Optional slurpy) ] };
+use Devel::PartialDump;
+use Scalar::Util qw(blessed);
-our $VERSION = '0.07';
+our $VERSION = '0.13';
our $AUTHORITY = 'cpan:JJNAPIORK';
=head1 NAME
{first=>'John', middle=>'James', last=>'Napiorkowski'}
{first=>'Vanessa', last=>'Li'}
+
+=head1 EXPORTABLE SUBROUTINES
+
+This type library makes available for export the following subroutines
+
+=head2 slurpy
+
+Structured type constraints by their nature are closed; that is validation will
+depend on an exact match between your structure definition and the arguments to
+be checked. Sometimes you might wish for a slightly looser amount of validation.
+For example, you may wish to validate the first 3 elements of an array reference
+and allow for an arbitrary number of additional elements. At first thought you
+might think you could do it this way:
+
+ # I want to validate stuff like: [1,"hello", $obj, 2,3,4,5,6,...]
+ subtype AllowTailingArgs,
+ as Tuple[
+ Int,
+ Str,
+ Object,
+ ArrayRef[Int],
+ ];
+
+However what this will actually validate are structures like this:
+
+ [10,"Hello", $obj, [11,12,13,...] ]; # Notice element 4 is an ArrayRef
+
+In order to allow structured validation of, "and then some", arguments, you can
+use the </slurpy> method against a type constraint. For example:
+
+ use MooseX::Types::Structured qw(Tuple slurpy);
+ subtype AllowTailingArgs,
+ as Tuple[
+ Int,
+ Str,
+ Object,
+ slurpy ArrayRef[Int],
+ ];
+
+This will now work as expected, validating ArrayRef structures such as:
+
+ [1,"hello", $obj, 2,3,4,5,6,...]
+
+A few caveats apply. First, the slurpy type constraint must be the last one in
+the list of type constraint parameters. Second, the parent type of the slurpy
+type constraint must match that of the containing type constraint. That means
+that a Tuple can allow a slurpy ArrayRef (or children of ArrayRefs, including
+another Tuple) and a Dict can allow a slurpy HashRef (or children/subtypes of
+HashRef, also including other Dict constraints).
+
+Please note the the technical way this works 'under the hood' is that the
+slurpy keywork transforms the target type constraint into a coderef. Please do
+not try to create your own custom coderefs; always use the slurpy method. The
+underlying technology may change in the future but the slurpy keyword will be
+supported.
+
+=head1 ERROR MESSAGES
+
+Error reporting has been improved to return more useful debugging messages. Now
+I will stringify the incoming check value with L<Devel::PartialDump> so that you
+can see the actual structure that is tripping up validation. Also, I report the
+'internal' validation error, so that if a particular element inside the
+Structured Type is failing validation, you will see that. There's a limit to
+how deep this internal reporting goes, but you shouldn't see any of the "failed
+with ARRAY(XXXXXX)" that we got with earlier versions of this module.
+
+This support is continuing to expand, so it's best to use these messages for
+debugging purposes and not for creating messages that 'escape into the wild'
+such as error messages sent to the user.
+
+Please see the test '12-error.t' for a more lengthy example. Your thoughts and
+preferable tests or code patches very welcome!
+
=head1 EXAMPLES
Here are some additional example usage for structured types. All examples can
And now you can instantiate with all the following:
__PACKAGE__->new(
- name=>'John Napiorkowski',
- age=>39,
+ person=>{
+ name=>'John Napiorkowski',
+ age=>39,
+ },
);
__PACKAGE__->new(
- first=>'John',
- last=>'Napiorkowski',
- years=>39,
+ person=>{
+ first=>'John',
+ last=>'Napiorkowski',
+ years=>39,
+ },
);
__PACKAGE__->new(
- fullname => {
- first=>'John',
- last=>'Napiorkowski'
+ person=>{
+ fullname => {
+ first=>'John',
+ last=>'Napiorkowski'
+ },
+ dob => 'DateTime'->new(
+ year=>1969,
+ month=>2,
+ day=>13
+ ),
},
- dob => 'DateTime'->new(
- year=>1969,
- month=>2,
- day=>13
- ),
);
This technique is a way to support various ways to instantiate your class in a
@$type_constraints : ();
my $overflow_handler;
- if(ref $type_constraints[-1] eq 'CODE') {
+ if($type_constraints[-1] && blessed $type_constraints[-1]
+ && $type_constraints[-1]->isa('MooseX::Types::Structured::OverflowHandler')) {
$overflow_handler = pop @type_constraints;
}
if(@values) {
my $value = shift @values;
unless($type_constraint->check($value)) {
+ $_[2]->{message} = $type_constraint->get_message($value)
+ if ref $_[2];
return;
}
} else {
## Test if the TC supports null values
unless($type_constraint->check()) {
+ $_[2]->{message} = $type_constraint->get_message('NULL')
+ if ref $_[2];
return;
}
}
## Make sure there are no leftovers.
if(@values) {
if($overflow_handler) {
- return $overflow_handler->(@values);
+ return $overflow_handler->check([@values], $_[2]);
} else {
+ $_[2]->{message} = "More values than Type Constraints!"
+ if ref $_[2];
return;
}
} elsif(@type_constraints) {
- warn "I failed due to left over TC";
+ $_[2]->{message} =
+ "Not enough values for all defined type constraints. Remaining: ". join(', ',@type_constraints)
+ if ref $_[2];
return;
} else {
return 1;
@$type_constraints : ();
my $overflow_handler;
- if(ref $type_constraints[-1] eq 'CODE') {
+ if($type_constraints[-1] && blessed $type_constraints[-1]
+ && $type_constraints[-1]->isa('MooseX::Types::Structured::OverflowHandler')) {
$overflow_handler = pop @type_constraints;
}
my (%type_constraints) = @type_constraints;
my $value = $values{$key};
delete $values{$key};
unless($type_constraint->check($value)) {
+ $_[2]->{message} = $type_constraint->get_message($value)
+ if ref $_[2];
return;
}
} else {
## Test to see if the TC supports null values
unless($type_constraint->check()) {
+ $_[2]->{message} = $type_constraint->get_message('NULL')
+ if ref $_[2];
return;
}
}
## Make sure there are no leftovers.
if(%values) {
if($overflow_handler) {
- return $overflow_handler->(%values);
+ return $overflow_handler->check(+{%values});
} else {
+ $_[2]->{message} = "More values than Type Constraints!"
+ if ref $_[2];
return;
}
} elsif(%type_constraints) {
+ $_[2]->{message} =
+ "Not enough values for all defined type constraints. Remaining: ". join(', ',values %values)
+ if ref $_[2];
return;
} else {
return 1;
Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::add_parameterizable_type($Optional);
}
+sub slurpy ($) {
+ my ($tc) = @_;
+ return MooseX::Types::Structured::OverflowHandler->new(
+ type_constraint => $tc,
+ );
+}
=head1 SEE ALSO