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Coat::Types - Type constraint system for Coat
This is a rewrite of Moose::Util::TypeConstraint for Coat.
use Coat::Types;
type 'Num' => where { Scalar::Util::looks_like_number($_) };
subtype 'Natural'
=> as 'Num'
=> where { $_ > 0 };
subtype 'NaturalLessThanTen'
=> as 'Natural'
=> where { $_ < 10 }
=> message { "This number ($_) is not less than ten!" };
coerce 'Num'
=> from 'Str'
=> via { 0+$_ };
enum 'RGBColors' => qw(red green blue);
This module provides Coat with the ability to create custom type contraints to be used in attribute definition.
This is NOT a type system for Perl 5. These are type constraints, and they are not used by Coat unless you tell it to. No type inference is performed, expression are not typed, etc. etc. etc.
This is simply a means of creating small constraint functions which can be used to simplify your own type-checking code, with the added side benefit of making your intentions clearer through self-documentation.
It is always a good idea to quote your type and subtype names.
This is to prevent perl from trying to execute the call as an indirect object call. This issue only seems to come up when you have a subtype the same name as a valid class, but when the issue does arise it tends to be quite annoying to debug.
So for instance, this:
subtype DateTime => as Object => where { $_->isa('DateTime') };
will Just Work, while this:
use DateTime;
subtype DateTime => as Object => where { $_->isa('DateTime') };
will fail silently and cause many headaches. The simple way to solve this, as well as future proof your subtypes from classes which have yet to have been created yet, is to simply do this:
use DateTime;
subtype 'DateTime' => as 'Object' => where { $_->isa('DateTime') };
This module also provides a simple hierarchy for Perl 5 types, here is that hierarchy represented visually.
Any
Item
Bool
Undef
Defined
Value
Num
Int
Str
ClassName
Ref
ScalarRef
ArrayRef[`a]
HashRef[`a]
CodeRef
RegexpRef
GlobRef
Object
Since the types created by this module are global, it is suggested that you namespace your types just as you would namespace your modules. So instead of creating a Color type for your My::Graphics module, you would call the type My::Graphics::Color instead.
The following functions are used to create type constraints. They will then register the type constraints in a global store where Coat can get to them if it needs to.
See the SYNOPSIS for an example of how to use these.
This creates a base type, which has no parent.
This creates a named subtype.
This will create a basic subtype for a given set of strings.
The resulting constraint will be a subtype of Str and
will match any of the items in @values. It is case sensitive.
See the SYNOPSIS for a simple example.
NOTE: This is not a true proper enum type, it is simple a convient constraint builder.
This is just sugar for the type constraint construction syntax.
This is just sugar for the type constraint construction syntax.
This is just sugar for the type constraint construction syntax.
Type constraints can also contain type coercions as well. If you ask your accessor to coerce, then Coat will run the type-coercion code first, followed by the type constraint check. This feature should be used carefully as it is very powerful and could easily take off a limb if you are not careful.
See the SYNOPSIS for an example of how to use these.
This is just sugar for the type coercion construction syntax.
This is just sugar for the type coercion construction syntax.
This function can be used to locate a specific type constraint meta-object, of the class Coat::Meta::TypeConstraint or a derivative. What you do with it from there is up to you :)
This function will register a named type constraint with the type registry.
This will return a list of type constraint names, you can then
fetch them using find_type_constraint ($type_name) if you
want to.
This will export all the current type constraints as functions into the caller's namespace. Right now, this is mostly used for testing, but it might prove useful to others.
All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT.
Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@sukria.net> ; based on the work done by Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com> on Moose::Util::TypeConstraint
Copyright 2006-2008 by Edenware - Alexis Sukrieh
http://www.edenware.fr - http://www.sukria.net
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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package Coat::Types; use strict; use warnings; use Carp 'confess'; use base 'Exporter'; use vars qw(@EXPORT); use Coat::Meta::TypeConstraint; # Moose/Coat keywords sub as ($); sub from ($); sub where (&); sub message (&); sub type ($$;$); sub subtype ($$;$$); sub enum ($;@); sub via (&); sub coerce ($@); @EXPORT = qw( type subtype enum coerce from as where via message register_type_constraint find_type_constraint find_or_create_type_constraint list_all_type_constraints list_all_builtin_type_constraints create_parameterized_type_constraint find_or_create_parameterized_type_constraint ); sub as ($) { $_[0] } sub from ($) { $_[0] } sub where (&) { $_[0] } sub via (&) { $_[0] } sub message (&) { $_[0] } # {{{ - Registry # singleton for storing Coat::Meta::Typeconstrain objects my $REGISTRY = { }; sub register_type_constraint { my ($tc) = @_; confess "can't register an unnamed type constraint" unless defined $tc->name; $REGISTRY->{$tc->name} = $tc; } sub find_type_constraint { $REGISTRY->{$_[0]} } sub list_all_type_constraints { keys %$REGISTRY } sub get_type_constraint_registry { $REGISTRY } sub find_or_create_type_constraint { my ($type_name) = @_; my $tc = find_type_constraint( $type_name ); return $tc if defined $tc; return register_type_constraint( Coat::Meta::TypeConstraint->new( name => $type_name, parent => 'Object', validation => sub { $_->isa($type_name) }, message => sub { "Value is not a member of class '$type_name' ($_)" }, )); } # }}} # {{{ - macro (type, subtype, coerce, enum) sub type($$;$) { my ($type_name, $validation_code, $message) = @_; register_type_constraint( new Coat::Meta::TypeConstraint( name => $type_name, parent => undef, validation => $validation_code, message => $message) ); } sub subtype ($$;$$) { my ($type_name, $parent, $validation_code, $message) = @_; register_type_constraint( new Coat::Meta::TypeConstraint( name => $type_name, parent => $parent, validation => $validation_code, message => $message ) ); } sub enum ($;@) { my ($type_name, @values) = @_; confess "You must have at least two values to enumerate through" unless (scalar @values >= 2); my $regexp = join( '|', @values ); subtype $type_name => as 'Str' => where { /^$regexp$/i }; } sub coerce($@) { my ($type_name, %coercion_map) = @_; my $tc = find_or_create_type_constraint($type_name); if ($tc->has_coercion) { my $map = { %{ $tc->coercion_map }, %coercion_map }; $tc->coercion_map ( $map ); } else { $tc->coercion_map ( \%coercion_map ); } } # }}} # {{{ - exported functions sub export_type_constraints_as_functions { my $caller = caller; foreach my $t ( list_all_type_constraints() ) { my $constraint = find_type_constraint( $t ); my $constraint_symbol = "${caller}::${t}"; my $constraint_sub = sub { my ($value) = @_; local $_ = $value; return $constraint->validation->($value) ? 1 : undef; }; { no strict 'refs'; no warnings 'redefine', 'prototype'; *$constraint_symbol = $constraint_sub; } } } sub validate { my ($class, $attr, $attribute, $value, $type_name) = @_; $type_name ||= $attr->{isa}; # Exception if not defined and required attribute confess "Attribute \($attribute\) is required and cannot be undef" if ($attr->{required} && ! defined $value); # Bypass the type check if not defined and not required return $value if (! defined $value && ! $attr->{required}); # get the current TypeConstraint object (or create it if not defined) my $tc = (_is_parameterized_type_constraint( $type_name )) ? find_or_create_parameterized_type_constraint( $type_name ) : find_or_create_type_constraint( $type_name ) ; # look for coercion : if the constraint has coercion and # current value is of a supported coercion source type, coerce. if ($attr->{coerce}) { (not $tc->has_coercion) && confess "Coercion is not available for type '".$tc->name."'"; # coercing... $value = $tc->coerce($value); } # validate the value through the type-constraint $tc->validate( $value ); return $value; } # }}} # {{{ - parameterized type constraints sub find_or_create_parameterized_type_constraint ($) { my ($type_name) = @_; $REGISTRY->{$type_name} ||= create_parameterized_type_constraint( $type_name ); } sub create_parameterized_type_constraint ($) { my ($type_name) = @_; my ($base_type, $type_parameter) = _parse_parameterized_type_constraint($type_name); (defined $base_type && defined $type_parameter) || confess "Could not parse type name ($type_name) correctly"; my $tc_base = find_type_constraint( $base_type ); (defined $tc_base) || confess "Could not locate the base type ($base_type)"; confess "Unsupported base type ($base_type)" if (! _base_type_is_arrayref($base_type) && ! _base_type_is_hashref($base_type) ); my $tc_param = find_type_constraint( $type_parameter ); my $tc = Coat::Meta::TypeConstraint->new ( name => $type_name, parent => $base_type, message => sub { "Validation failed with value $_" }); # now add parameterized type constraint validation code # depending on the base type if (_base_type_is_arrayref( $base_type )) { $tc->validation( sub { foreach my $e (@$_) { eval { $tc_param->validate( $e )}; return 0 if $@; } return 1; }); } elsif (_base_type_is_hashref( $base_type )) { $tc->validation( sub { my $value = $_ || $_[0]; foreach my $k (keys %$value) { eval { $tc_param->validate( $value->{$k} )}; return 0 if $@; } return 1; }); } # the type-constraint object is ready! return $tc; } # private subs for parameterized type constraints handling sub _base_type_is_arrayref ($) { my ($type) = @_; return $type =~ /^ArrayRef|ARRAY$/; } sub _base_type_is_hashref ($) { my ($type) = @_; return $type =~ /^HashRef|HASH$/; } sub _parse_parameterized_type_constraint ($) { my ($type_name) = @_; if ($type_name =~ /^(\w+)\[([\w:_\d]+)\]$/) { return ($1, $2); } else { return (undef, undef); } } sub _is_parameterized_type_constraint ($) { my ($type_name) = @_; return $type_name =~ /^\w+\[[\w:_\d]+\]$/; } # }}} # {{{ - built-in types and subtypes ## -------------------------------------------------------- ## some basic built-in types (mostly taken from Moose) ## -------------------------------------------------------- type 'Any' => where { 1 }; # meta-type including all type 'Item' => where { 1 }; # base-type subtype 'Undef' => as 'Item' => where { !defined($_) }; subtype 'Defined' => as 'Item' => where { defined($_) }; subtype 'Bool' => as 'Item' => where { !defined($_) || $_ eq "" || "$_" eq '1' || "$_" eq '0' }; subtype 'Value' => as 'Defined' => where { !ref($_) }; subtype 'Ref' => as 'Defined' => where { ref($_) }; subtype 'Str' => as 'Value' => where { 1 }; subtype 'Num' => as 'Value' => where { "$_" =~ /^-?[\d\.]+$/ }; subtype 'Int' => as 'Num' => where { "$_" =~ /^-?[0-9]+$/ }; subtype 'ScalarRef' => as 'Ref' => where { ref($_) eq 'SCALAR' }; subtype 'ArrayRef' => as 'Ref' => where { ref($_) eq 'ARRAY' }; subtype 'HashRef' => as 'Ref' => where { ref($_) eq 'HASH' }; subtype 'CodeRef' => as 'Ref' => where { ref($_) eq 'CODE' }; subtype 'RegexpRef' => as 'Ref' => where { ref($_) eq 'Regexp' }; subtype 'GlobRef' => as 'Ref' => where { ref($_) eq 'GLOB' }; subtype 'FileHandle' => as 'GlobRef' => where { ref($_) eq 'GLOB' }; subtype 'Object' => as 'Ref' => where { ref($_) && ref($_) ne 'Regexp' && ref($_) ne 'ARRAY' && ref($_) ne 'SCALAR' && ref($_) ne 'CODE' && ref($_) ne 'HASH'}; subtype 'ClassName' => as 'Str' => where { ref($_[0]) && ref($_[0]) eq $_[1] }; # accesor to all the built-in types { my @BUILTINS = list_all_type_constraints(); sub list_all_builtin_type_constraints { @BUILTINS } } # }}} 1; __END__