Sub::WrapPackages(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Sub::WrapPackages(3)NAMESub::WrapPackages - add pre- and post-execution wrappers around all the
subroutines in packages or around individual subs
SYNOPSIS
use Sub::WrapPackages
packages => [qw(Foo Bar Baz::*)], # wrap all subs in Foo and Bar
# and any Baz::* packages
subs => [qw(Barf::a, Barf::b)], # wrap these two subs as well
wrap_inherited => 1, # and wrap any methods
# inherited by Foo, Bar, or
# Baz::*
pre => sub {
print "called $_[0] with params ".
join(', ', @_[1..$#_])."\n";
},
post => sub {
print "$_[0] returned $_[1]\n";
};
COMPATIBILITY
While this module does broadly the same job as the 1.x versions did,
the interface may have changed incompatibly. Sorry. Hopefully it'll
be more maintainable and slightly less crazily magical. Also, caller()
should now work properly, ignoring wrappings.
DESCRIPTION
This module installs pre- and post- execution subroutines for the
subroutines or packages you specify. The pre-execution subroutine is
passed the wrapped subroutine's name and all its arguments. The post-
execution subroutine is passed the wrapped sub's name and its results.
The return values from the pre- and post- subs are ignored, and they
are called in the same context (void, scalar or list) as the calling
code asked for.
Normal usage is to pass a bunch of parameters when the module is used.
However, you can also call Sub::WrapPackages::wrapsubs with the same
parameters.
PARAMETERS
Either pass parameters on loading the module, as above, or pass them to
...
the wrapsubs subroutine
the subs arrayref
In the synopsis above, you will see two named parameters, "subs"
and "packages". Any subroutine mentioned in "subs" will be
wrapped. Any subroutines mentioned in 'subs' must already exist -
ie their modules must be loaded - at the time you try to wrap them.
the packages arrayref
Any package mentioned here will have all its subroutines wrapped,
including any that it imports at load-time. Packages can be loaded
in any order - they don't have to already be loaded for
Sub::WrapPackages to work its magic.
You can specify wildcard packages. Anything ending in ::* is
assumed to be such. For example, if you specify Orchard::Tree::*,
then that matches Orchard::Tree, Orchard::Tree::Pear,
Orchard::Apple::KingstonBlack etc, but not - of course - Pine::Tree
or My::Orchard::Tree.
Note, however, that if a module exports a subroutine at load-time
using "import" then that sub will be wrapped in the exporting
module but not in the importing module. This is because import()
runs before we get a chance to fiddle with things. Sorry.
Deferred wrapping of subs in packages that aren't yet loaded works
via a subroutine inserted in @INC. This means that if you mess
around with @INC, eg by inserting a directoy at the beginning of
the path, the magic might not get a chance to run. If you "use
lib" to mess with @INC though, it should work, as I've over-ridden
lib's import() method. That said, code this funky has no right to
work. Use with caution!
wrap_inherited
In conjunction with the "packages" arrayref, this wraps all calls
to inherited methods made through those packages. If you call
those methods directly in the superclass then they are not affected
- unless they're wrapped in the superclass of course.
pre and post
References to the subroutines you want to use as wrappers.
BUGS
AUTOLOAD and DESTROY are not treated as being special. I'm not sure
whether they should be or not.
If you use wrap_inherited but classes change their inheritance tree at
run-time, then very bad things will happen. VERY BAD THINGS. So don't
do that. You shouldn't be doing that anyway. Mind you, you shouldn't
be doing the things that this module does either. BAD PROGRAMMER, NO
BIKKIT!
If you find any other lurking horrors, please report them using
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Sub-WrapPackages
<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Sub-WrapPackages>.
FEEDBACK
I like to know who's using my code. All comments, including
constructive criticism, are welcome. Please email me.
SOURCE CODE REPOSITORY
<http://www.cantrell.org.uk/cgit/cgit.cgi/perlmodules/>
COPYRIGHT and LICENCE
Copyright 2003-2009 David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>
This software is free-as-in-speech software, and may be used,
distributed, and modified under the terms of either the GNU General
Public Licence version 2 or the Artistic Licence. It's up to you which
one you use. The full text of the licences can be found in the files
GPL2.txt and ARTISTIC.txt, respectively.
THANKS TO
Thanks to Tom Hukins for sending in a test case for the situation when
a class and a subclass are both defined in the same file, and for
prompting me to support inherited methods;
to Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaker for help with the craziness for fiddling
with modules that haven't yet been loaded;
to Lee Johnson for reporting a bug caused by perl 5.10's constant.pm
being Far Too Clever, and providing a patch and test;
to Adam Trickett who thought this was a jolly good idea;
and to Ed Summers, whose code for figgering out what functions a
package contains I borrowed out of Acme::Voodoo.
perl v5.14.2 2010-03-06 Sub::WrapPackages(3)
