package Tie::RefHash; use vars qw/$VERSION/; $VERSION = "1.38"; use 5.005; =head1 NAME Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys =head1 SYNOPSIS require 5.004; use Tie::RefHash; tie HASHVARIABLE, 'Tie::RefHash', LIST; tie HASHVARIABLE, 'Tie::RefHash::Nestable', LIST; untie HASHVARIABLE; =head1 DESCRIPTION This module provides the ability to use references as hash keys if you first C the hash variable to this module. Normally, only the keys of the tied hash itself are preserved as references; to use references as keys in hashes-of-hashes, use Tie::RefHash::Nestable, included as part of Tie::RefHash. It is implemented using the standard perl TIEHASH interface. Please see the C entry in perlfunc(1) and perltie(1) for more information. The Nestable version works by looking for hash references being stored and converting them to tied hashes so that they too can have references as keys. This will happen without warning whenever you store a reference to one of your own hashes in the tied hash. =head1 EXAMPLE use Tie::RefHash; tie %h, 'Tie::RefHash'; $a = []; $b = {}; $c = \*main; $d = \"gunk"; $e = sub { 'foo' }; %h = ($a => 1, $b => 2, $c => 3, $d => 4, $e => 5); $a->[0] = 'foo'; $b->{foo} = 'bar'; for (keys %h) { print ref($_), "\n"; } tie %h, 'Tie::RefHash::Nestable'; $h{$a}->{$b} = 1; for (keys %h, keys %{$h{$a}}) { print ref($_), "\n"; } =head1 THREAD SUPPORT L fully supports threading using the C method. =head1 STORABLE SUPPORT L hooks are provided for semantically correct serialization and cloning of tied refhashes. =head1 RELIC SUPPORT This version of Tie::RefHash seems to no longer work with 5.004. This has not been throughly investigated. Patches welcome ;-) =head1 MAINTAINER Yuval Kogman Enothingmuch@woobling.orgE =head1 AUTHOR Gurusamy Sarathy gsar@activestate.com 'Nestable' by Ed Avis ed@membled.com =head1 SEE ALSO perl(1), perlfunc(1), perltie(1) =cut use Tie::Hash; use vars '@ISA'; @ISA = qw(Tie::Hash); use strict; use Carp qw/croak/; BEGIN { local $@; # determine whether we need to take care of threads use Config (); my $usethreads = $Config::Config{usethreads}; # && exists $INC{"threads.pm"} *_HAS_THREADS = $usethreads ? sub () { 1 } : sub () { 0 }; *_HAS_SCALAR_UTIL = eval { require Scalar::Util; 1 } ? sub () { 1 } : sub () { 0 }; *_HAS_WEAKEN = defined(&Scalar::Util::weaken) ? sub () { 1 } : sub () { 0 }; } BEGIN { # create a refaddr function local $@; if ( _HAS_SCALAR_UTIL ) { Scalar::Util->import("refaddr"); } else { require overload; *refaddr = sub { if ( overload::StrVal($_[0]) =~ /\( 0x ([a-zA-Z0-9]+) \)$/x) { return $1; } else { die "couldn't parse StrVal: " . overload::StrVal($_[0]); } }; } } my (@thread_object_registry, $count); # used by the CLONE method to rehash the keys after their refaddr changed sub TIEHASH { my $c = shift; my $s = []; bless $s, $c; while (@_) { $s->STORE(shift, shift); } if (_HAS_THREADS ) { if ( _HAS_WEAKEN ) { # remember the object so that we can rekey it on CLONE push @thread_object_registry, $s; # but make this a weak reference, so that there are no leaks Scalar::Util::weaken( $thread_object_registry[-1] ); if ( ++$count > 1000 ) { # this ensures we don't fill up with a huge array dead weakrefs @thread_object_registry = grep { defined } @thread_object_registry; $count = 0; } } else { $count++; # used in the warning } } return $s; } my $storable_format_version = join("/", __PACKAGE__, "0.01"); sub STORABLE_freeze { my ( $self, $is_cloning ) = @_; my ( $refs, $reg ) = @$self; return ( $storable_format_version, [ values %$refs ], $reg ); } sub STORABLE_thaw { my ( $self, $is_cloning, $version, $refs, $reg ) = @_; croak "incompatible versions of Tie::RefHash between freeze and thaw" unless $version eq $storable_format_version; @$self = ( {}, $reg ); $self->_reindex_keys( $refs ); } sub CLONE { my $pkg = shift; if ( $count and not _HAS_WEAKEN ) { warn "Tie::RefHash is not threadsafe without Scalar::Util::weaken"; } # when the thread has been cloned all the objects need to be updated. # dead weakrefs are undefined, so we filter them out @thread_object_registry = grep { defined && do { $_->_reindex_keys; 1 } } @thread_object_registry; $count = 0; # we just cleaned up } sub _reindex_keys { my ( $self, $extra_keys ) = @_; # rehash all the ref keys based on their new StrVal %{ $self->[0] } = map { refaddr($_->[0]) => $_ } (values(%{ $self->[0] }), @{ $extra_keys || [] }); } sub FETCH { my($s, $k) = @_; if (ref $k) { my $kstr = refaddr($k); if (defined $s->[0]{$kstr}) { $s->[0]{$kstr}[1]; } else { undef; } } else { $s->[1]{$k}; } } sub STORE { my($s, $k, $v) = @_; if (ref $k) { $s->[0]{refaddr($k)} = [$k, $v]; } else { $s->[1]{$k} = $v; } $v; } sub DELETE { my($s, $k) = @_; (ref $k) ? (delete($s->[0]{refaddr($k)}) || [])->[1] : delete($s->[1]{$k}); } sub EXISTS { my($s, $k) = @_; (ref $k) ? exists($s->[0]{refaddr($k)}) : exists($s->[1]{$k}); } sub FIRSTKEY { my $s = shift; keys %{$s->[0]}; # reset iterator keys %{$s->[1]}; # reset iterator $s->[2] = 0; # flag for iteration, see NEXTKEY $s->NEXTKEY; } sub NEXTKEY { my $s = shift; my ($k, $v); if (!$s->[2]) { if (($k, $v) = each %{$s->[0]}) { return $v->[0]; } else { $s->[2] = 1; } } return each %{$s->[1]}; } sub CLEAR { my $s = shift; $s->[2] = 0; %{$s->[0]} = (); %{$s->[1]} = (); } package Tie::RefHash::Nestable; use vars '@ISA'; @ISA = 'Tie::RefHash'; sub STORE { my($s, $k, $v) = @_; if (ref($v) eq 'HASH' and not tied %$v) { my @elems = %$v; tie %$v, ref($s), @elems; } $s->SUPER::STORE($k, $v); } 1;