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- use strict;
- package Tie::Memoize;
- use Tie::Hash;
- our @ISA = 'Tie::ExtraHash';
- our $VERSION = '1.0';
-
- our $exists_token = \undef;
-
- sub croak {require Carp; goto &Carp::croak}
-
- # Format: [0: STORAGE, 1: EXISTS-CACHE, 2: FETCH_function;
- # 3: EXISTS_function, 4: DATA, 5: EXISTS_different ]
-
- sub FETCH {
- my ($h,$key) = ($_[0][0], $_[1]);
- my $res = $h->{$key};
- return $res if defined $res; # Shortcut if accessible
- return $res if exists $h->{$key}; # Accessible, but undef
- my $cache = $_[0][1]{$key};
- return if defined $cache and not $cache; # Known to not exist
- my @res = $_[0][2]->($key, $_[0][4]); # Autoload
- $_[0][1]{$key} = 0, return unless @res; # Cache non-existence
- delete $_[0][1]{$key}; # Clear existence cache, not needed any more
- $_[0][0]{$key} = $res[0]; # Store data and return
- }
-
- sub EXISTS {
- my ($a,$key) = (shift, shift);
- return 1 if exists $a->[0]{$key}; # Have data
- my $cache = $a->[1]{$key};
- return $cache if defined $cache; # Existence cache
- my @res = $a->[3]($key,$a->[4]);
- $_[0][1]{$key} = 0, return unless @res; # Cache non-existence
- # Now we know it exists
- return ($_[0][1]{$key} = 1) if $a->[5]; # Only existence reported
- # Now know the value
- $_[0][0]{$key} = $res[0]; # Store data
- return 1
- }
-
- sub TIEHASH {
- croak 'syntax: tie %hash, \'Tie::AutoLoad\', \&fetch_subr' if @_ < 2;
- croak 'syntax: tie %hash, \'Tie::AutoLoad\', \&fetch_subr, $data, \&exists_subr, \%data_cache, \%existence_cache' if @_ > 6;
- push @_, undef if @_ < 3; # Data
- push @_, $_[1] if @_ < 4; # exists
- push @_, {} while @_ < 6; # initial value and caches
- bless [ @_[4,5,1,3,2], $_[1] ne $_[3]], $_[0]
- }
-
- 1;
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- Tie::Memoize - add data to hash when needed
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- require Tie::Memoize;
- tie %hash, 'Tie::Memoize',
- \&fetch, # The rest is optional
- $DATA, \&exists,
- {%ini_value}, {%ini_existence};
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- This package allows a tied hash to autoload its values on the first access,
- and to use the cached value on the following accesses.
-
- Only read-accesses (via fetching the value or C<exists>) result in calls to
- the functions; the modify-accesses are performed as on a normal hash.
-
- The required arguments during C<tie> are the hash, the package, and
- the reference to the C<FETCH>ing function. The optional arguments are
- an arbitrary scalar $data, the reference to the C<EXISTS> function,
- and initial values of the hash and of the existence cache.
-
- Both the C<FETCH>ing function and the C<EXISTS> functions have the
- same signature: the arguments are C<$key, $data>; $data is the same
- value as given as argument during tie()ing. Both functions should
- return an empty list if the value does not exist. If C<EXISTS>
- function is different from the C<FETCH>ing function, it should return
- a TRUE value on success. The C<FETCH>ing function should return the
- intended value if the key is valid.
-
- =head1 Inheriting from B<Tie::Memoize>
-
- The structure of the tied() data is an array reference with elements
-
- 0: cache of known values
- 1: cache of known existence of keys
- 2: FETCH function
- 3: EXISTS function
- 4: $data
-
- The rest is for internal usage of this package. In particular, if
- TIEHASH is overwritten, it should call SUPER::TIEHASH.
-
- =head1 EXAMPLE
-
- sub slurp {
- my ($key, $dir) = shift;
- open my $h, '<', "$dir/$key" or return;
- local $/; <$h> # slurp it all
- }
- sub exists { my ($key, $dir) = shift; return -f "$dir/$key" }
-
- tie %hash, 'Tie::Memoize', \&slurp, $directory, \&exists,
- { fake_file1 => $content1, fake_file2 => $content2 },
- { pretend_does_not_exists => 0, known_to_exist => 1 };
-
- This example treats the slightly modified contents of $directory as a
- hash. The modifications are that the keys F<fake_file1> and
- F<fake_file2> fetch values $content1 and $content2, and
- F<pretend_does_not_exists> will never be accessed. Additionally, the
- existence of F<known_to_exist> is never checked (so if it does not
- exists when its content is needed, the user of %hash may be confused).
-
- =head1 BUGS
-
- FIRSTKEY and NEXTKEY methods go through the keys which were already read,
- not all the possible keys of the hash.
-
- =head1 AUTHOR
-
- Ilya Zakharevich L<mailto:perl-module-hash-memoize@ilyaz.org>.
-
- =cut
-
-