Class::StateMachine - define classes for state machines


Class-StateMachine documentation Contained in the Class-StateMachine distribution.

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NAME

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Class::StateMachine - define classes for state machines

SYNOPSIS

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  package MySM;
  no warnings 'redefine';

  use base 'Class::StateMachine';

  sub foo : OnState(one) { print "on state one\n" }
  sub foo : OnState(two) { print "on state two\n" }

  sub bar : OnState(__any__) { print "default action\n" }
  sub bar : OnState(three, five, seven) { print "on several states\n" }
  sub bar : OnState(one) { print "on state one\n" }

  sub new { bless {}, shift }

  package main;

  my $sm = MySM->new;

  $sm->state('one');
  $sm->foo; # prints "on state one"

  $sm->state('two');
  $sm->foo; # prints "on state two"







DESCRIPTION

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Class::StateMachine lets define, via the OnState attribute, methods that are dispatched depending on an internal state property.

METHODS

These methods are available on objects of this class:

$obj->state

gets the object state

$obj->state($new_state)

changes the object state

$obj->rebless($class)

changes the object class in a compatible manner, target class should also be derived from Class::StateMachine.

BUGS

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Because of certain limitations in current perl implementation of attributed subroutines, attributes have to be processed on CHECK blocks. That means that they will not be available before that, for instance, on module initialization, or in BEGIN blocks.

SEE ALSO

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attributes, perlsub, perlmod, warnings, Attribute::Handlers.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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Class-StateMachine documentation Contained in the Class-StateMachine distribution.

package Class::StateMachine::Private;

our $VERSION = '0.12';

use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;

use Scalar::Util qw(refaddr);

sub warnings_enabled {
    package Class::StateMachine;
    warnings::enabled;
}

my ( %state,
     %class_isa_stateful,
     %class_bootstrapped );

sub _state {
    my $self = shift;
    my $addr = refaddr($self)
	or croak "can't get/set state on non object";
    if (@_) {
	my $state = shift;
	$state{$addr} = $state;
	my $base_class = ref($self);
	$base_class =~ s|::__state__::.*$||;
	my $class = _bootstrap_state_class($base_class, $state);
	bless $self, $class;
    }
    $state{$addr}
}

sub _rebless {
    my $self = shift;
    my $addr = refaddr($self)
	or croak "can't rebless non object";
    if (my $state = $state{$addr}) {
	my $base_class;
	if (@_) {
	    $base_class = shift;
	}
	else {
	    $base_class = ref($self);
	    $base_class =~ s|::__state__::.*||;
	}
	my $class = _bootstrap_state_class($base_class, $state);
	bless $self, $class;
    }
    elsif (@_) {
	bless $self, shift
    }
    $self
}

sub _destroy {
    my $self = shift;
    my $addr = refaddr($self)
	or croak "can't get/set state on non object";
    delete $state{$addr};
}

sub _bootstrap_class {
    my $class = shift;
    no strict 'refs';
    $class_isa_stateful{$class} = [ grep { Class::StateMachine->isa($_) }
				    @{*{$class.'::ISA'}{ARRAY}} ];
}

sub _bootstrap_state_class {
    my ($class, $state) = @_;
    my $state_class = "${class}::__state__::${state}";
    unless ($class_bootstrapped{$state_class}) {
	my $methods_class = _bootstrap_methods_class($class, $state);
	my $methods_class_any = _bootstrap_methods_class($class, '__any__');
	no strict 'refs';
	*{$state_class.'::ISA'} = [$methods_class, $methods_class_any, $class];
	$class_bootstrapped{$state_class} = 1;
    }
    return $state_class;
}

sub _bootstrap_methods_class {
    my ($class, $state, $no) = @_;
    my $methods_class = "${class}::__methods__::${state}";
    unless ($no or $class_bootstrapped{$methods_class}) {
	_bootstrap_class($class);
	no strict 'refs';
	my @isa =
	    map { _bootstrap_methods_class($_, $state) }
		@{$class_isa_stateful{$class}};
	*{$methods_class.'::ISA'} = \@isa;
    }
    return $methods_class;
}

my @state_methods;

use Devel::Peek;
sub _handle_attr_OnState {
    my ($class, $sub, $on_state) = @_;

    push @state_methods, [$class, $sub, $on_state];
}

use Devel::Peek 'CvGV';

CHECK {
    for (@state_methods) {
	my ($class, $sub, $on_state) = @$_;
	my $sym = CvGV($sub);
	
	# print STDERR "sub name: $sym\n";
	
	# Devel::Peek::Dump($sym);
	my ($method) = $sym=~/::([^:]+)$/
	    or croak "invalid symbol name '$sym'";

	my @on_state = do {
	    no strict;
	    no warnings;
	    eval $on_state
	};
	Carp::croak("error inside OnState attribute declaration: $@") if $@;
	unless (@on_state) {
	    warnings::warnif('Class::StateMachine',
			     'no states on OnState attribute declaration');
	}
	
	no strict 'refs';
	for my $state (@on_state) {
	    $state = '__any__' unless defined $state;
	    my $state_class = _bootstrap_methods_class($class, $state, 1);
	    *{$state_class.'::'.$method} = $sub;
	}
	no warnings;
	*{$class.'::'.$method} =
	    sub {
		my $this = shift;
		my $state = $this->state;
		croak( defined($state)
		       ? "no particular method ${class}::${method} defined for state $state on obj $this"
		       : "method ${class}::${method} called before setting the state on obj $this" )
	    };
    }
}

package Class::StateMachine;
use warnings::register;

sub MODIFY_CODE_ATTRIBUTES {
    my ($class, undef, @attr) = @_;
    grep { !/^OnState\((.*)\)$/
	       or (Class::StateMachine::Private::_handle_attr_OnState($class, $_[1], $1), 0) } @attr;
}

*state = \&Class::StateMachine::Private::_state;
*rebless = \&Class::StateMachine::Private::_rebless;

*DESTROY = \&Class::StateMachine::Private::_destroy;

1;
__END__