Pod::Coverage - Checks if the documentation of a module is comprehensive


Pod-Coverage documentation Contained in the Pod-Coverage distribution.

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NAME

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Pod::Coverage - Checks if the documentation of a module is comprehensive

SYNOPSIS

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  # in the beginnning...
  perl -MPod::Coverage=Pod::Coverage -e666

  # all in one invocation
  use Pod::Coverage package => 'Fishy';

  # straight OO
  use Pod::Coverage;
  my $pc = Pod::Coverage->new(package => 'Pod::Coverage');
  print "We rock!" if $pc->coverage == 1;




DESCRIPTION

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Developers hate writing documentation. They'd hate it even more if their computer tattled on them, but maybe they'll be even more thankful in the long run. Even if not, perlmodstyle tells you to, so you must obey.

This module provides a mechanism for determining if the pod for a given module is comprehensive.

It expects to find either a =head(n>1) or an =item block documenting a subroutine.

Consider: # an imaginary Foo.pm package Foo;

 =item foo

 The foo sub

 = cut

 sub foo {}
 sub bar {}

 1;
 __END__

In this example Foo::foo is covered, but Foo::bar is not, so the Foo package is only 50% (0.5) covered

Methods

Pod::Coverage->new(package => $package)

Creates a new Pod::Coverage object.

package the name of the package to analyse

private an array of regexen which define what symbols are regarded as private (and so need not be documented) defaults to [ qr/^_/, qr/^import$/, qr/^DESTROY$/, qr/^AUTOLOAD$/, qr/^bootstrap$/, qr/^(TIE( SCALAR | ARRAY | HASH | HANDLE ) | FETCH | STORE | UNTIE | FETCHSIZE | STORESIZE | POP | PUSH | SHIFT | UNSHIFT | SPLICE | DELETE | EXISTS | EXTEND | CLEAR | FIRSTKEY | NEXTKEY | PRINT | PRINTF | WRITE | READLINE | GETC | READ | CLOSE | BINMODE | OPEN | EOF | FILENO | SEEK | TELL | SCALAR )$/x, qr/^( MODIFY | FETCH )_( REF | SCALAR | ARRAY | HASH | CODE | GLOB | FORMAT | IO )_ATTRIBUTES$/x, qr/^CLONE(_SKIP)?$/, ]

This should cover all the usual magical methods for tie()d objects, attributes, generally all the methods that are typically not called by a user, but instead being used internally by perl.

also_private items are appended to the private list

trustme an array of regexen which define what symbols you just want us to assume are properly documented even if we can't find any docs for them

If pod_from is supplied, that file is parsed for the documentation, rather than using Pod::Find

If nonwhitespace is supplied, then only POD sections which have non-whitespace characters will count towards being documented.

$object->coverage

Gives the coverage as a value in the range 0 to 1

$object->why_unrated

$object->coverage may return undef, to indicate that it was unable to deduce coverage for a package. If this happens you should be able to check why_unrated to get a useful excuse.

$object->naked/$object->uncovered

Returns a list of uncovered routines, will implicitly call coverage if it's not already been called.

Note, private and 'trustme' identifiers will be skipped.

$object->covered

Returns a list of covered routines, will implicitly call coverage if it's not previously been called.

As with naked, private and 'trustme' identifiers will be skipped.

Debugging support

In order to allow internals debugging, while allowing the optimiser to do its thang, Pod::Coverage uses constant subs to define how it traces.

Use them like so

 sub Pod::Coverage::TRACE_ALL () { 1 }
 use Pod::Coverage;

Supported constants are:

TRACE_ALL

Trace everything.

Well that's all there is so far, are you glad you came?

Inheritance interface

These abstract methods while functional in Pod::Coverage may make your life easier if you want to extend Pod::Coverage to fit your house style more closely.

NOTE Please consider this interface as in a state of flux until this comment goes away.

$object->_CvGV($symbol)

Return the GV for the coderef supplied. Used by _get_syms to identify locally defined code.

You probably won't need to override this one.

$object->_get_syms($package)

return a list of symbols to check for from the specified packahe

_get_pods

Extract pod markers from the currently active package.

Return an arrayref or undef on fail.

_private_check($symbol)

return true if the symbol should be considered private

_trustme_check($symbol)

return true if the symbol is a 'trustme' symbol

BUGS

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Due to the method used to identify documented subroutines Pod::Coverage may completely miss your house style and declare your code undocumented. Patches and/or failing tests welcome.

TODO

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Widen the rules for identifying documentation
Improve the code coverage of the test suite. Devel::Cover rocks so hard.

SEE ALSO

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Test::More, Devel::Cover

AUTHORS

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Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

Michael Stevens <mstevens@etla.org>

some contributions from David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>

COPYRIGHT

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Pod-Coverage documentation Contained in the Pod-Coverage distribution.
use strict;

package Pod::Coverage;
use Devel::Symdump;
use B;
use Pod::Find qw(pod_where);

BEGIN { defined &TRACE_ALL or eval 'sub TRACE_ALL () { 0 }' }

use vars qw/ $VERSION /;
$VERSION = '0.21';

sub new {
    my $referent = shift;
    my %args     = @_;
    my $class    = ref $referent || $referent;

    my $private = $args{private} || [
        qr/^_/,
        qr/^import$/,
        qr/^DESTROY$/,
        qr/^AUTOLOAD$/,
        qr/^bootstrap$/,
        qr/^\(/,
        qr/^(TIE( SCALAR | ARRAY | HASH | HANDLE ) |
                          FETCH | STORE | UNTIE | FETCHSIZE | STORESIZE |
                          POP | PUSH | SHIFT | UNSHIFT | SPLICE | DELETE |
                          EXISTS | EXTEND | CLEAR | FIRSTKEY | NEXTKEY | PRINT | PRINTF |
                          WRITE | READLINE | GETC | READ | CLOSE | BINMODE | OPEN |
                          EOF | FILENO | SEEK | TELL | SCALAR )$/x,
        qr/^( MODIFY | FETCH )_( REF | SCALAR | ARRAY | HASH | CODE |
                                                                  GLOB | FORMAT | IO)_ATTRIBUTES $/x,
        qr/^CLONE(_SKIP)?$/,
    ];
    push @$private, @{ $args{also_private} || [] };
    my $trustme       = $args{trustme}       || [];
    my $nonwhitespace = $args{nonwhitespace} || undef;

    my $self = bless {
        @_,
        private       => $private,
        trustme       => $trustme,
        nonwhitespace => $nonwhitespace
    }, $class;
}

sub coverage {
    my $self = shift;

    my $package = $self->{package};
    my $pods    = $self->_get_pods;
    return unless $pods;

    my %symbols = map { $_ => 0 } $self->_get_syms($package);

    print "tying shoelaces\n" if TRACE_ALL;
    for my $pod (@$pods) {
        $symbols{$pod} = 1 if exists $symbols{$pod};
    }

    foreach my $sym ( keys %symbols ) {
        $symbols{$sym} = 1 if $self->_trustme_check($sym);
    }

    # stash the results for later
    $self->{symbols} = \%symbols;

    if (TRACE_ALL) {
        require Data::Dumper;
        print Data::Dumper::Dumper($self);
    }

    my $symbols = scalar keys %symbols;
    my $documented = scalar grep {$_} values %symbols;
    unless ($symbols) {
        $self->{why_unrated} = "no public symbols defined";
        return;
    }
    return $documented / $symbols;
}

sub why_unrated {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{why_unrated};
}

sub naked {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{symbols} or $self->coverage;
    return unless $self->{symbols};
    return grep { !$self->{symbols}{$_} } keys %{ $self->{symbols} };
}

*uncovered = \&naked;

sub covered {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{symbols} or $self->coverage;
    return unless $self->{symbols};
    return grep { $self->{symbols}{$_} } keys %{ $self->{symbols} };
}

sub import {
    my $self = shift;
    return unless @_;

    # one argument - just a package
    scalar @_ == 1 and unshift @_, 'package';

    # we were called with arguments
    my $pc     = $self->new(@_);
    my $rating = $pc->coverage;
    $rating = 'unrated (' . $pc->why_unrated . ')'
        unless defined $rating;
    print $pc->{package}, " has a $self rating of $rating\n";
    my @looky_here = $pc->naked;
    if ( @looky_here > 1 ) {
        print "The following are uncovered: ", join( ", ", sort @looky_here ),
            "\n";
    } elsif (@looky_here) {
        print "'$looky_here[0]' is uncovered\n";
    }
}

# this one walks the symbol tree
sub _get_syms {
    my $self    = shift;
    my $package = shift;

    print "requiring '$package'\n" if TRACE_ALL;
    eval qq{ require $package };
    print "require failed with $@\n" if TRACE_ALL and $@;
    return if $@;

    print "walking symbols\n" if TRACE_ALL;
    my $syms = Devel::Symdump->new($package);

    my @symbols;
    for my $sym ( $syms->functions ) {

        # see if said method wasn't just imported from elsewhere
        my $glob = do { no strict 'refs'; \*{$sym} };
        my $o = B::svref_2object($glob);

        # in 5.005 this flag is not exposed via B, though it exists
        my $imported_cv = eval { B::GVf_IMPORTED_CV() } || 0x80;
        next if $o->GvFLAGS & $imported_cv;

        # check if it's on the whitelist
        $sym =~ s/$self->{package}:://;
        next if $self->_private_check($sym);

        push @symbols, $sym;
    }
    return @symbols;
}

sub _get_pods {
    my $self = shift;

    my $package = $self->{package};

    print "getting pod location for '$package'\n" if TRACE_ALL;
    $self->{pod_from} ||= pod_where( { -inc => 1 }, $package );

    my $pod_from = $self->{pod_from};
    unless ($pod_from) {
        $self->{why_unrated} = "couldn't find pod";
        return;
    }

    print "parsing '$pod_from'\n" if TRACE_ALL;
    my $pod = Pod::Coverage::Extractor->new;
    $pod->{nonwhitespace} = $self->{nonwhitespace};
    $pod->parse_from_file( $pod_from, '/dev/null' );

    return $pod->{identifiers} || [];
}

sub _private_check {
    my $self = shift;
    my $sym  = shift;
    return grep { $sym =~ /$_/ } @{ $self->{private} };
}

sub _trustme_check {
    my ( $self, $sym ) = @_;
    return grep { $sym =~ /$_/ } @{ $self->{trustme} };
}

sub _CvGV {
    my $self = shift;
    my $cv   = shift;
    my $b_cv = B::svref_2object($cv);

    # perl 5.6.2's B doesn't have an object_2svref.  in 5.8 you can
    # just do this:
    # return *{ $b_cv->GV->object_2svref };
    # but for backcompat we're forced into this uglyness:
    no strict 'refs';
    return *{ $b_cv->GV->STASH->NAME . "::" . $b_cv->GV->NAME };
}

package Pod::Coverage::Extractor;
use Pod::Parser;
use base 'Pod::Parser';

use constant debug => 0;

# extract subnames from a pod stream
sub command {
    my $self = shift;
    my ( $command, $text, $line_num ) = @_;
    if ( $command eq 'item' || $command =~ /^head(?:2|3|4)/ ) {

        # take a closer look
        my @pods = ( $text =~ /\s*([^\s\|,\/]+)/g );
        $self->{recent} = [];

        foreach my $pod (@pods) {
            print "Considering: '$pod'\n" if debug;

            # it's dressed up like a method cal
            $pod =~ /-E<\s*gt\s*>(.*)/ and $pod = $1;
            $pod =~ /->(.*)/           and $pod = $1;

            # it's used as a (bare) fully qualified name
            $pod =~ /\w+(?:::\w+)*::(\w+)/ and $pod = $1;

            # it's wrapped in a pod style B<>
            $pod =~ s/[A-Z]<//g;
            $pod =~ s/>//g;

            # has arguments, or a semicolon
            $pod =~ /(\w+)\s*[;\(]/ and $pod = $1;

            print "Adding: '$pod'\n" if debug;
            push @{ $self->{ $self->{nonwhitespace}
                    ? "recent"
                    : "identifiers" } }, $pod;
        }
    }
}

sub textblock {
    my $self = shift;
    my ( $text, $line_num ) = shift;
    if ( $self->{nonwhitespace} and $text =~ /\S/ and $self->{recent} ) {
        push @{ $self->{identifiers} }, @{ $self->{recent} };
        $self->{recent} = [];
    }
}

1;

__END__