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Module::Info - Information about Perl modules
use Module::Info;
my $mod = Module::Info->new_from_file('Some/Module.pm');
my $mod = Module::Info->new_from_module('Some::Module');
my $mod = Module::Info->new_from_loaded('Some::Module');
my @mods = Module::Info->all_installed('Some::Module');
my $name = $mod->name;
my $version = $mod->version;
my $dir = $mod->inc_dir;
my $file = $mod->file;
my $is_core = $mod->is_core;
# Only available in perl 5.6.1 and up.
# These do compile the module.
my @packages = $mod->packages_inside;
my @used = $mod->modules_used;
my @subs = $mod->subroutines;
my @isa = $mod->superclasses;
my @calls = $mod->subroutines_called;
# Check for constructs which make perl hard to predict.
my @methods = $mod->dynamic_method_calls;
my @lines = $mod->eval_string; *UNIMPLEMENTED*
my @lines = $mod->gotos; *UNIMPLEMENTED*
my @controls = $mod->exit_via_loop_control; *UNIMPLEMENTED*
my @unpredictables = $mod->has_unpredictables; *UNIMPLEMENTED*
# set/get Module::Info options
$self->die_on_compilation_error(1);
my $die_on_error = $mod->die_on_compilation_error;
$self->safe(1);
my $safe = $mod->safe;
Module::Info gives you information about Perl modules without actually loading the module. It actually isn't specific to modules and should work on any perl code.
There are a few ways to specify which module you want information for. They all return Module::Info objects.
my $module = Module::Info->new_from_file('path/to/Some/Module.pm');
Given a file, it will interpret this as the module you want information about. You can also hand it a perl script.
If the file doesn't exist or isn't readable it will return false.
my $module = Module::Info->new_from_module('Some::Module');
my $module = Module::Info->new_from_module('Some::Module', @INC);
Given a module name, @INC will be searched and the first module found
used. This is the same module that would be loaded if you just say
use Some::Module.
If you give your own @INC, that will be used to search instead.
my $module = Module::Info->new_from_loaded('Some::Module');
Gets information about the currently loaded version of Some::Module. If it isn't loaded, returns false.
my @modules = Module::Info->all_installed('Some::Module');
my @modules = Module::Info->all_installed('Some::Module', @INC);
Like new_from_module(), except all modules in @INC will be
returned, in the order they are found. Thus $modules[0] is the one
that would be loaded by use Some::Module.
The following methods get their information without actually compiling the module.
my $name = $module->name; $module->name($name);
Name of the module (ie. Some::Module).
Module loaded using new_from_file() won't have this information in which case you can set it yourself.
my $version = $module->version;
Divines the value of $VERSION. This uses the same method as ExtUtils::MakeMaker and all caveats therein apply.
my $dir = $module->inc_dir;
Include directory in which this module was found. Module::Info objects created with new_from_file() won't have this info.
my $file = $module->file;
The absolute path to this module.
my $is_core = $module->is_core;
Checks if this module is the one distributed with Perl.
NOTE This goes by what directory it's in. It's possible that the module has been altered or upgraded from CPAN since the original Perl installation.
WARNING! From here down reliability drops rapidly!
The following methods get their information by compiling the module and examining the opcode tree. The module will be compiled in a seperate process so as not to disturb the current program.
They will only work on 5.6.1 and up and requires the B::Utils module.
my @packages = $module->packages_inside;
Looks for any explicit package declarations inside the module and
returns a list. Useful for finding hidden classes and functionality
(like Tie::StdHandle inside Tie::Handle).
KNOWN BUG Currently doesn't spot package changes inside subroutines.
my %versions = $module->package_versions;
Returns a hash whose keys are the packages contained in the module
(these are the same as what's returned by packages_inside()), and
whose values are the versions of those packages.
my @used = $module->modules_used;
Returns a list of all modules and files which may be use'd or
require'd by this module.
NOTE These modules may be conditionally loaded, can't tell. Also
can't find modules which might be used inside an eval.
my %required = $module->modules_required;
Returns a list of all modules and files which may be use'd or
require'd by this module, together with the minimum required version.
The hash is keyed on the module/file name, the corrisponding value is an array reference containing the requied versions, or an empty array if no specific version was required.
NOTE These modules may be conditionally loaded, can't tell. Also
can't find modules which might be used inside an eval.
my %subs = $module->subroutines;
Returns a hash of all subroutines defined inside this module and some info about it. The key is the *full* name of the subroutine (ie. $subs{'Some::Module::foo'} rather than just $subs{'foo'}), value is a hash ref with information about the subroutine like so:
start => line number of the first statement in the subroutine
end => line number of the last statement in the subroutine
Note that the line numbers may not be entirely accurate and will change as perl's backend compiler improves. They typically correspond to the first and last run-time statements in a subroutine. For example:
sub foo {
package Wibble;
$foo = "bar";
return $foo;
}
Taking sub foo { as line 1, Module::Info will report line 3 as the
start and line 4 as the end. package Wibble; is a compile-time
statement. Again, this will change as perl changes.
Note this only catches simple sub foo {...} subroutine
declarations. Anonymous, autoloaded or eval'd subroutines are not
listed.
my @isa = $module->superclasses;
Returns the value of @ISA for this $module. Requires that $module->name be set to work.
NOTE superclasses() is currently cheating. See CAVEATS below.
my @calls = $module->subroutines_called;
Finds all the methods and functions which are called inside the $module.
Returns a list of hashes. Each hash represents a single function or method call and has the keys:
line line number where this call originated
class class called on if its a class method
type function, symbolic function, object method,
class method, dynamic object method or
dynamic class method.
(NOTE This format will probably change)
name name of the function/method called if not dynamic
Unpredictable constructs are things that make a Perl program hard to predict what its going to do without actually running it. There's nothing wrong with these constructs, but its nice to know where they are when maintaining a piece of code.
my @methods = $module->dynamic_method_calls;
Returns a list of dynamic method calls (ie. $obj-$method()>) used
by the $module. @methods has the same format as the return value of
subroutines_called().
The following methods get/set specific option values for the Module::Info object.
$module->die_on_compilation_error(0); # default $module->die_on_compilation_error(1); my $flag = $module->die_on_compilation_error;
Sets/gets the "die on compilation error" flag. When the flag is off
(default), and a module fails to compile, Module::Info simply emits a
watning and continues. When the flag is on and a module fails to
compile, Module::Info die()s with the same error message it would use
in the warning.
$module->safe(0); # default $module->safe(1); # be safer my $flag = $module->safe;
Sets/gets the "safe" flag. When the flag is enabled all operations
requiring module compilation are forbidden and the version() method
executes its code in a Safe compartment.
$module->use_version(0); # do not use version.pm (default) $module->use_version(1); # use version.pm, die if not present my $flag = $module->use_version;
Sets/gets the "use_version" flag. When the flag is enabled the 'version' method always returns a version object.
Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> with code from ExtUtils::MM_Unix, Module::InstalledVersion and lots of cargo-culting from B::Deparse.
Mattia Barbon <mbarbon@cpan.org> is the current maintainer.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Many thanks to Simon Cozens and Robin Houston for letting me chew their ears about B.
Code refs in @INC are currently ignored. If this bothers you submit a patch.
superclasses() is cheating and just loading the module in a seperate process and looking at @ISA. I don't think its worth the trouble to go through and parse the opcode tree as it still requires loading the module and running all the BEGIN blocks. Patches welcome.
I originally was going to call superclasses() isa() but then I remembered that would be bad.
All the methods that require loading are really inefficient as they're not caching anything. I'll worry about efficiency later.
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package Module::Info; use strict; use Carp; use File::Spec; use Config; require 5.004; my $has_version_pm = eval 'use version; 1'; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA $AUTOLOAD); # quotes 'version' for 5.004 $VERSION = eval 'use version; 1' ? 'version'->new('0.32') : '0.32'; $VERSION = eval $VERSION;
sub new_from_file { my($proto, $file) = @_; my($class) = ref $proto || $proto; return unless -r $file; my $self = {}; $self->{file} = File::Spec->rel2abs($file); $self->{dir} = ''; $self->{name} = ''; $self->{safe} = 0; $self->{use_version} = 0; return bless $self, $class; }
sub new_from_module { my($class, $module, @inc) = @_; return ($class->_find_all_installed($module, 1, @inc))[0]; }
sub new_from_loaded { my($class, $name) = @_; my $mod_file = join('/', split('::', $name)) . '.pm'; my $filepath = $INC{$mod_file} || ''; my $module = Module::Info->new_from_file($filepath) or return; $module->{name} = $name; ($module->{dir} = $filepath) =~ s|/?\Q$mod_file\E$||; $module->{dir} = File::Spec->rel2abs($module->{dir}); $module->{safe} = 0; $module->{use_version} = 0; return $module; }
sub all_installed { my($class, $module, @inc) = @_; return $class->_find_all_installed($module, 0, @inc); } # Thieved from Module::InstalledVersion sub _find_all_installed { my($proto, $name, $find_first_one, @inc) = @_; my($class) = ref $proto || $proto; @inc = @INC unless @inc; my $file = File::Spec->catfile(split /::/, $name) . '.pm'; my @modules = (); DIR: foreach my $dir (@inc) { # Skip the new code ref in @INC feature. next if ref $dir; my $filename = File::Spec->catfile($dir, $file); if( -r $filename ) { my $module = $class->new_from_file($filename); $module->{dir} = File::Spec->rel2abs($dir); $module->{name} = $name; push @modules, $module; last DIR if $find_first_one; } } return @modules; }
sub name { my($self) = shift; $self->{name} = shift if @_; return $self->{name}; }
# Thieved from ExtUtils::MM_Unix 1.12603 sub version { my($self) = shift; local($_, *MOD); my $parsefile = $self->file; my $safe = $self->safe; open(MOD, $parsefile) or die $!; my $inpod = 0; my $result; while (<MOD>) { $inpod = /^=(?!cut)/ ? 1 : /^=cut/ ? 0 : $inpod; next if $inpod || /^\s*#/; chomp; next unless /([\$*])(([\w\:\']*)\bVERSION)\b.*\=/; my $eval = sprintf qq{ package Module::Info::_version; %s local $1$2; \$$2=undef; do { %s }; \$$2 }, ( $safe ? '' : 'no strict;' ), $_; local $^W = 0; $result = $self->_eval($eval); warn "Could not eval '$eval' in $parsefile: $@" if $@ && !$safe; $result = "undef" unless defined $result; last; } close MOD; $result = 'version'->new($result) # quotes for 5.004 if $self->use_version && (!ref($result) || !UNIVERSAL::isa($result, "version")); return $result; }
sub inc_dir { my($self) = shift; return $self->{dir}; }
sub file { my($self) = shift; return $self->{file}; }
sub is_core { my($self) = shift; return scalar grep $self->{dir} eq File::Spec->canonpath($_), ($Config{installarchlib}, $Config{installprivlib}, $Config{archlib}, $Config{privlib}); }
sub packages_inside { my $self = shift; my %packs = map {$_, 1} $self->_call_B('packages'); return keys %packs; }
sub package_versions { my $self = shift; my @packs = $self->packages_inside; # To survive the print(), we translate undef into '~' and then back again. (my $quoted_file = $self->file) =~ s/(['\\])/\\$1/g; my $command = qq{-le "require '$quoted_file';}; foreach (@packs) { $command .= " print defined $_->VERSION ? $_->VERSION : '~';" } $command .= qq{"}; my ($status, @versions) = $self->_call_perl($command); chomp @versions; foreach (@versions) { $_ = undef if $_ eq '~'; } my %map; @map{@packs} = @versions; return %map; }
sub modules_used { my($self) = shift; my %used = $self->modules_required; return keys %used; }
sub modules_required { my($self) = shift; my $mod_file = $self->file; my @mods = $self->_call_B('modules_used'); my @used_mods = (); my %used_mods = (); for (grep /^use \D/ && /at "\Q$mod_file\E" /, @mods) { my($file, $version) = /^use (\S+) \(([^\)]*)\)/; $used_mods{_file2mod($file)} ||= []; next unless defined $version and length $version; push @{$used_mods{_file2mod($file)}}, $version; } push @used_mods, map { my($file) = /^require bare (\S+)/; _file2mod($file) } grep /^require bare \D/ , @mods; push @used_mods, map { /^require not bare (\S+)/; $1 } grep /^require not bare \D/, @mods; foreach ( @used_mods ) { $used_mods{$_} = [] }; return %used_mods; } sub _file2mod { my($mod) = shift; $mod =~ s/\.pm//; $mod =~ s|/|::|g; return $mod; }
sub subroutines { my($self) = shift; my $mod_file = $self->file; my @subs = $self->_call_B('subroutines'); return map { /^(\S+) at "[^"]+" from (\d+) to (\d+)/; ($1 => { start => $2, end => $3 }) } grep /at "\Q$mod_file\E" /, @subs; } sub _get_extra_arguments { '' } sub _call_B { my($self, $arg) = @_; my $mod_file = $self->file; my $extra_args = $self->_get_extra_arguments; my $command = qq{$extra_args "-MO=Module::Info,$arg" "$mod_file"}; my($status, @out) = $self->_call_perl($command); if( $status ) { my $exit = $status >> 8; my $msg = join "\n", "B::Module::Info,$arg use failed with $exit saying:", @out; if( $self->{die_on_compilation_error} ) { die $msg; } else { warn $msg; return; } } @out = grep !/syntax OK$/, @out; chomp @out; return @out; }
sub superclasses { my $self = shift; my $mod_file = $self->file; my $mod_name = $self->name; unless( $mod_name ) { carp 'isa() requires $module->name to be set'; return; } my $extra_args = $self->_get_extra_arguments; my $command = qq{-e "require q{$mod_file}; print join qq{\\n}, \@$mod_name\::ISA"}; my($status, @isa) = $self->_call_perl("$extra_args $command"); chomp @isa; return @isa; }
sub subroutines_called { my($self) = shift; my @subs = $self->_call_B('subs_called'); my $mod_file = $self->file; @subs = grep /at "\Q$mod_file\E" line/, @subs; my @out = (); foreach (@subs) { my %info = (); ($info{type}) = /^(.+) call/; $info{type} = 'symbolic function' if /using symbolic ref/; ($info{'name'}) = /to (\S+)/; ($info{class})= /via (\S+)/; ($info{line}) = /line (\d+)/; push @out, \%info; } return @out; }
sub dynamic_method_calls { my($self) = shift; return grep $_->{type} =~ /dynamic/, $self->subroutines_called; }
sub die_on_compilation_error { my($self) = shift; $self->{die_on_compilation_error} = $_[0] ? 1 : 0 if @_; return $self->{die_on_compilation_error}; }
sub safe { my($self) = shift; if( @_ ) { $self->{safe} = $_[0] ? 1 : 0; require Safe if $self->{safe}; } return $self->{safe}; } sub AUTOLOAD { my($super) = $_[0]->safe ? 'Module::Info::Safe' : 'Module::Info::Unsafe'; my($method) = $AUTOLOAD; $method =~ s/^.*::([^:]+)$/$1/; return if $method eq 'DESTROY'; my($code) = $super->can($method); die "Can not find method '$method' in Module::Info" unless $code; goto &$code; }
sub use_version { my($self) = shift; if( @_ ) { die "Can not use 'version.pm' as requested" if $_[0] && !$has_version_pm; $self->{use_version} = $_[0] ? 1 : 0; } return $self->{use_version}; }
package Module::Info::Safe; my $root = 'Module::Info::Safe::_safe'; sub _create_compartment { my $safe = Safe->new( $root ); $safe->permit_only( qw(:base_orig :base_core) ); return $safe; } sub _eval { my($self, $code) = @_; $self->{compartment} ||= _create_compartment; return $self->{compartment}->reval( $code, 0 ) } sub _call_perl { die "Module::Info attemped an unsafe operation while in 'safe' mode."; } package Module::Info::Unsafe; sub _eval { eval($_[1]) } sub _is_win95() { return $^O eq 'MSWin32' && (Win32::GetOSVersion())[4] == 1; } sub _is_macos_classic() { return $^O eq 'MacOS'; } sub _call_perl { my($self, $args) = @_; my $perl = _is_macos_classic ? 'perl' : $^X; my $command = "$perl $args"; my @out; if( _is_win95 ) { require IPC::Open3; local *OUTFH; my($line, $in); my $out = \*OUTFH; my $pid = IPC::Open3::open3($in, $out, $out, $command); close $in; while( defined($line = <OUTFH>) ) { $line =~ s/\r\n$/\n/; # strip CRs push @out, $line; } waitpid $pid, 0; } elsif( _is_macos_classic ) { @out = `$command \xb7 Dev:Stdout`; } else { @out = `$command 2>&1`; } @out = grep !/^Using.*blib$/, @out; return ($?, @out); } return 'Stepping on toes is what Schwerns do best! *poing poing poing*';