NAME

Datify - Simple stringification of data.

SYNOPSIS

use Datify;

my $datify = Datify->new( ... );   # See OPTIONS below
$datify = $datify->set( ... );     # See OPTIONS below

print $datify->varify( data => [...] ), "\n";  # "@data = (...);\n"

# Or

print Datify->varify( data => [...] ), "\n";
# "@data = (...);\n"

DESCRIPTION

Datify is very similar to Data::Dumper, except that it's easier to use, and has better formatting and options.

OPTIONS

Varify options

name => '$self'

The neame of the default variable. This is also set as the first parameter to varify.

assign => '$var = $value;'

What an assignment statement should look like. If the generated code is to be run under use strict;, then you may want to change this to 'my $var = $value;'.

list => '($_)'

The delimiters for a list.

beautify => undef

Set this to a CODE reference that you would like to use to beautify the code. It should accept the code as the first parameter, process it, and return the code after all the beauty modifications have been completed.

An example:

use Datify;
use Perl::Tidy;

sub beautify {
    my $source = shift;

    my ($dest, $stderr);
    Perl::Tidy::perltidy(
        argv => [ qw(
            --noprofile
            --nostandard-output
            --standard-error-output
            --nopass-version-line
        ) ],
        source      => \$source,
        destination => \$dest,
        stderr      => \$stderr,
        errorfile   => \$stderr,
    ) && die $stderr;

    return $dest;
}

Datify->set( beautify => \&beautify );

say Datify->varify( var => $var );

Undefify options

null => 'undef': What to use as the null value.

Booleanify options

true => 1
false => "''": What to use as the values for true and false, respectively. Since Perl does not have native boolean values, these are placeholders.

Stringify options

quote => undef: What to use as the default quote character. If set to a false value, then use the best guess. See "stringify( value )".
quote1 => "'": The default single-quoting character.
quote2 => '"': The default double-quoting character.
q1 => 'q': The special single-quoting character starter.
q2 => 'qq': The special double-quoting character starter.
sigils => '$@': The characters in a double quoted sting that need to be quoted, or they may be interpreted as variable interpolation.
longstr => 1_000: How long a string needs to be before it's considered long. See "stringify( value )". Change to a false value to indicate no string is long. Change to a negative value to indicate every string is long.
encode => { 0 => '\0', 7 => '\a', 9 => '\t', 10 => '\n', 12 => '\f', 13 => '\r', 27 => '\e', byte => '\x%02x', wide => '\x{%04x}' }: How to encode characters that need encoding.
qpairs => [ qw\ () <> [] {} \ ]
qquotes => [ qw\ ! # % & * + , - . / : ; = ? ^ | ~ $ @ ` \ ]: When determining the quote character to use, go through these lists to see which character would work best.

Numify options

infinite => "'inf'": What to use to indicate infinity.
-infinite => "'-inf'": What to use to indicate negative infinity.
nonnumber => "'nan'": What to use to indicate this is not a number.
num_sep => '_': What character to use to seperate sets of numbers.

LValueify options

lvalue => 'substr($lvalue, 0)': How to generate a LValue.

VStringify options

vformat => 'v%vd'
vsep => undef: The formatting string to use. If vsep is set, then vformat should use the * format to inidicate what vsep will be: vformat => 'v%*vd', vsep => '.'.

Regexpify options

quote3 => '/'
q3 => 'qr'

Arrayify options

array_ref => '[$_]': The representation of an array reference.
list_sep => ', ': The representation of the separator between list elements.

Hashify options

hash_ref => '{$_}'

The representation of a hash reference.

pair => '$key => $value'

The representation of a pair.

keyfilter => undef

A reference to an ARRAY, CODE, HASH, Regexp, or SCALAR, which will be converted to a the appropriate code, and used to filter the keys in a hash via grep.

ARRAY entries are changed into a HASH, with the entries set to be the inverse of keyfilterdefault.

CODE entires should look for the key name in $_, and return a boolean value.

HASH entries should have a true or false value, to indicate if the entry should be included.

Regexp entries are matched, and if true, then return the inverse of $keyfilterdefault.

SCALAR entries treat all values according to the boolean evaluation.

keyfilterdefault => 1

When filtering keys in a hash, if the key is not found in the keyfilter HASH or ARRAY, should it pass through or not?

keysort => \&Datify::keysort

How to sort the keys in a hash. This has a performance hit, but it makes the output much more readable. See the description of "keysort".

keywords => [qw(undef)]

Any keywords that should be quoted, even though they may not need to be.

Objectify options

overloads => [ '""', '0+' ]: The list of overloads to check for before deconstructing the object. See overload for more information on overloading.
object => 'bless($data, $class_str)': The representation of an object. Other possibilities include '$class($data)' or '$class->new($data)'.
io => '*UNKNOWN{IO}': The representation of unknown IO objects.

Codeify options

code => 'sub {$_}': The representation of a code reference. This module does not currently support decompiling code to make a complete representation, but if passed a representation, can wrap it in this.
body => '...': The representation of the body to a code reference. This module does not currently support decompiling code to make a complete representation.

Refify options

reference => '\\$_': The representation of a reference.
dereference => '$referent->$place': The representation of dereferencing.
nested => '$referent$place': The representation of dereferencing a nested reference.

Formatify options

format => "format UNKNOWN =\n.\n": The representation of a format. This module does not currently support showing the acutal representation.

METHODS

`add_handler( 'Class::Name' => \&code_ref )`

Add a handler to handle an object of type 'Class::Name'. \&code_ref should take two parameters, a reference to Datify, and the object to be Datify'ed. It should return a representation of the object.

# Set URI's to stringify as "URI->new('http://example.com')"
# instead of "bless(\'http://example.com', 'URI')"
Datify->add_handler( 'URI' => sub {
    my ( $datify, $uri ) = @_;
    my $s = $datify->stringify("$uri");
    return "URI->new($s)";
} );

`new( name => value, name => value, ... )`

Create a Datify object with the following options.

See "OPTIONS" for a description of the options and their default values.

`set( name => value, name => value, ... )`

Change the "OPTIONS" settings. When called as a class method, changes default options. When called as an object method, changes the settings and returns a new object.

See "OPTIONS" for a description of the options and their default values.

NOTE: When called as a object method, this returns a new instance with the values set, so you will need to capture the return if you'd like to persist the change:

$datify = $datify->set( ... );

`get( name, name, ... )`

Get one or more existing values for one or more settings. If passed no names, returns all parameters and values.

Can be called as a class method or an object method.

`varify( name => value, value, ... )`

Returns an assignment statement for the values. If name does not begin with a sigil ($, @, or %), will determine which sigil to use based on values.

Some examples:

Common case, determine the type and add the correct sigil to 'foo'.

Datify->varify(   foo  => $foo );

Specify the type.

Datify->varify( '$foo' => $foo );

Handle a list: @foo = (1, 2, 3);

Datify->varify( '@foo' =>   1, 2, 3   );
Datify->varify( '@foo' => [ 1, 2, 3 ] );
Datify->varify(   foo  =>   1, 2, 3   );
Datify->varify(   foo  => [ 1, 2, 3 ] );

Handle a hash: %foo = (a => 1, b => 2, c => 3); (Note: Order may be rearranged.)

Datify->varify( '%foo' =>   a => 1, b => 2, c => 3   );
Datify->varify( '%foo' => { a => 1, b => 2, c => 3 } );
Datify->varify(   foo  => { a => 1, b => 2, c => 3 } );

Keep in mind that without proper hints, this would be interpretted as a list, not a hash:

Datify->varify(   foo  =>   a => 1, b => 2, c => 3   );
# "@foo = ('a', 1, 'b', 2, 'c', 3);"

`undefify`

Returns the string that should be used for an undef value.

`booleanify( value )`

Returns the string that represents the true or false interpretation of value.

`stringify1( value , delimiters )`

Returns the string that represents value as a single-quoted string. The delimiters parameter is optional.

`stringify2( value , delimiters )`

Returns the string that represents value as a double-quoted string. The delimiters parameter is optional.

`stringify( value )`

Returns the string the represents value. It will be a double-quoted string if it is longer than the longstr option or contains control characters. It will be a single-quoted string unless there are single-quotes within the string, then it will be a double-quoted string, unless it also contains double-quotes within the string, then it will attempt to find the best quote character.

`is_numeric( value )`

Returns true if value is can be numeric, returns false if the value is not numeric (including inf and nan), returns undef if the value is undefined.

Datify->is_numeric(1234.5678901);       #          true
Datify->is_numeric("inf");              #          false
Datify->is_numeric( "inf" / "inf" );    # "nan" => false
Datify->is_numeric(undef);              #          undef

`numify( value )`

Returns value with seperators between the hundreds and thousands, hundred-thousands and millions, etc. Similarly for the fractional parts.

Datify->numify(1234.5678901);    # "1_234.56_789_01"

Also returns the string that should be used for the infinite, -infinite, and nonnumber values, the null value for undefined values, and nonnumber value for all not-a-numbers.

Datify->numify('inf');              # 'inf'
Datify->numify( 'inf' / 'inf' );    # 'nan'
Datify->numify(undef);              # undef
Datify->numify('apple');            # 'nan'

`scalarify( value )`

Returns value as a scalar. If value is not a reference, performs some magic to correctly print vstrings and numbers, otherwise assumes it's a string. If value is a reference, hands off to the correct function to create the string.

Handles reference loops.

`lvalueify( value )`

Returns an approximate representation of what the lvalue is.

`vstringify( value )`

A representation of the VString, in dotted notation.

`regexpify( value, delimiters )`

A representation of the Regexp in value.

`listify( value, value, ... )`

Returns value(s) as a list.

Datify->listify( 1, 2, 3 );    # '1, 2, 3'

`arrayify( value, value, ... )`

Returns value(s) as an array.

Datify->arrayify( 1, 2, 3 );    # '[1, 2, 3]'

`keyify( value )`

Returns value as a key. If value does not need to be quoted, it will not be. Verifies that value is not a keyword.

`hashkeys( $hash )`

Returns the keys of a hash, filtered (see "keyfilter => undef"), and sorted (see "keysort").

`pairify( value => value, ... )`

Returns value(s) as a pair.

Datify->pairify( a => 1, b => 2 );    # 'a => 1, b => 2'

`hashify( value, value, ... )`

Returns value(s) as a hash.

Datify->hashify( a => 1, b => 2 );    # '{a => 1, b => 2}'

`overloaded( $object )`

Returns the first method from the overloads list that $object has overloaded. If nothing is overloaded, then return nothing.

`objectify( value )`

Returns value as an object.

Datify->objectify($object);    # "bless({}, 'Object')"

`ioify( value )`

Returns a representation of value that is accurate if value is STDIN, STDOUT, or STDERR. Otherwise, returns the io setting.

`codeify( value )`

Returns a subroutine definition that is not likely to encode value.

Datify->codeify( \&subroutine );    # 'sub {...}'

However, if value is a string, then wrap that string with code, or if value is a reference to something other than CODE, represent that reference by wrapping it with code.

`refify( value )`

Returns value as reference.

`formatify( value )`

Returns a value that is not completely unlike value.

`globify( value )`

Returns a representation of value. For normal values, remove the leading main::.

FUNCTIONS

`keysort`

Not a method, but a sorting routine that sorts numbers (using <=>) before strings (using cmp).

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/rkleemann/Datify/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

TODO

Handle formats better.

VERSION

version 0.18.277

AUTHOR

Bob Kleemann <bobk@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software, licensed under:

The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)

To install Datify, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Datify

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Datify

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

Varify options

Undefify options

Booleanify options

Stringify options

Numify options

LValueify options

VStringify options

Regexpify options

Arrayify options

Hashify options

Objectify options

Codeify options

Refify options

Formatify options

METHODS

add_handler( 'Class::Name' => \&code_ref )

new( name => value, name => value, ... )

set( name => value, name => value, ... )

get( name, name, ... )

varify( name => value, value, ... )

undefify

booleanify( value )

stringify1( value , delimiters )

stringify2( value , delimiters )

stringify( value )

is_numeric( value )

numify( value )

scalarify( value )

lvalueify( value )

vstringify( value )

regexpify( value, delimiters )

listify( value, value, ... )

arrayify( value, value, ... )

keyify( value )

hashkeys( $hash )

pairify( value => value, ... )

hashify( value, value, ... )

overloaded( $object )

objectify( value )

ioify( value )

codeify( value )

refify( value )

formatify( value )

globify( value )