## no critic (RequirePODUseEncodingUTF8)
package List::Breakdown;
# Force me to write this properly
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
# Target reasonably old Perls
use 5.006;
# Import required modules
use Carp;
# Handle exporting in a way Perl v5.6 should tolerate
use base qw(Exporter); ## no critic (ProhibitUseBase)
our @EXPORT_OK = 'breakdown';
# Specify package version
our $VERSION = '0.16';
# Dispatch table of functions to handle different ref types for the spec
# hashref's values
my %types = (
# If it's a hash, apply breakdown() again as if it were another root-level
# spec
HASH => sub {
my $spec = shift;
return { breakdown( $spec, @_ ) };
},
# If it's an array, we're doing numeric bounds checking [a,b)
ARRAY => sub {
my $bounds = shift;
@{$bounds} == 2
or croak 'ARRAY ref for bounds needs two items';
my $l = defined $bounds->[0] ? $bounds->[0] : '-Inf';
my $u = defined $bounds->[1] ? $bounds->[1] : 'Inf';
return [ grep { $_ >= $l and $_ < $u } @_ ];
},
# If it's a subroutine, return a arrayref of all elements for which it
# returns true
CODE => sub {
my $sub = shift;
return [ grep { $sub->() } @_ ];
},
# If it's a regular expression, return an arrayref of all elements it
# matches
Regexp => sub {
my $re = shift;
return [ grep { $_ =~ $re } @_ ];
},
);
# Given a spec and a list of items, filter them into a hash of the same
# structure
sub breakdown {
my ( $spec, @items ) = @_;
# Check the spec is a hashref
ref $spec eq 'HASH'
or croak 'HASH ref expected for first argument';
# Start building a results hash
my %results;
for my $key ( keys %{$spec} ) {
# Check that the value for this key is a reference
my $ref = ref $spec->{$key}
or croak "Ref expected for '$key'";
# Check it's a reference we understand
exists $types{$ref}
or croak "Unhandled ref type $ref for '$key'";
# Apply the appropriate subroutine for this reference type to the list
# of items
$results{$key} = $types{$ref}->( $spec->{$key}, @items );
}
# Return the constructed result set
return %results;
}
1;
__END__
=pod
=for stopwords
sublists Unhandled tradename licensable MERCHANTABILITY hashrefs CPAN AnnoCPAN
syntaxes
=head1 NAME
List::Breakdown - Build sublist structures matching conditions
=head1 VERSION
Version 0.16
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This module "breaks down" a list--filtering elements from a list into a
specified bucket layout. It may be useful in situations where you have a big
list of things to generate reports on, or to otherwise filter into several
sublists.
It differs from the excellent C<List::Categorize> in the use of subroutine
references for each category and in not requiring only one final category for
any given item; an item can end up in the result set for more than one filter.
You could maybe think of this as a multi-C<grep> that returns named results.
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use List::Breakdown 'breakdown';
...
my @words = qw(foo bar baz quux wibble florb);
my $cats = {
all => sub { 1 },
has_b => sub { m/ b /msx },
has_w => sub { m/ w /msx },
length => {
3 => sub { length == 3 },
4 => sub { length == 4 },
long => sub { length > 4 },
},
has_ba => qr/ba/msx,
};
my %filtered = breakdown $cats, @words;
This puts the following structure in C<%filtered>:
(
all => ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'quux', 'wibble', 'florb'],
has_b => ['bar', 'baz', 'wibble', 'florb'],
has_w => ['wibble'],
length => {
3 => ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'],
4 => ['quux'],
long => ['wibble', 'florb'],
},
has_ba => ['bar', 'baz'],
)
=head1 SUBROUTINES/METHODS
=head2 B<breakdown(\%spec, @items)>
Exportable subroutine; given a hash reference structure and a list of items,
apply each of the subroutines or regular expressions given as values of the
hash reference, returning a new hash in the same structure with the tests
replaced with the items for which the subroutine returns true, in the same way
as C<grep>.
There are two shortcut syntaxes:
=over 4
=item *
If a value in the C<spec> structure is an C<ARRAY> reference with two items, it
will be interpreted as defining bounds C<[lower,upper)> for matched values.
C<undef> can be used to denote negative or positive infinity.
=item *
If it's a C<Regexp> reference, it will be interpreted as a pattern to match
against all of the items, and will return the items that match.
=back
=head1 EXAMPLES
=head2 Collecting troublesome records
Suppose you have a list of strings from a very legacy system that you need to
regularly check for problematic characters, alerting you to problems with an
imperfect Perl parser:
my @records = (
"NEW CUSTOMER John O''Connor\r 2017-01-01",
"RETURNING CUSTOMER\tXah Zhang 2016-01-01",
"CHECK ACCOUNT Pierre d'Alun 2016-12-01",
"RETURNING CUSTOMER Aaron Carter 2016-05-01"
);
You could have a bucket structure like this, which catches certain error types
you've seen before for review:
my %buckets = (
bad_whitespace => qr/ [\r\t] /msx,
apostrophes => qr/ ' /msx,
double_apostrophes => qr/ '' /msx,
not_ascii => qr/ [^[:ascii:]] /msx
);
Notice that you don't have to wrap a quoted regular expression to match in a
C<sub> subroutine reference, as a convenience shortcut.
Applying the bucket structure like so:
my %results = breakdown \%buckets, @records;
The result set would look like this:
my %expected = (
bad_whitespace => [
"NEW CUSTOMER John O''Connor\r 2017-01-01",
"RETURNING CUSTOMER\tXah Lee 2016-01-01"
],
apostrophes => [
"NEW CUSTOMER John O''Connor\r 2017-01-01",
'CHECK ACCOUNT Pierre d\'Alun 2016-12-01'
],
double_apostrophes => [
"NEW CUSTOMER John O''Connor\r 2017-01-01"
],
not_ascii => [
]
);
Notice that some of the lines appear in more than one list, and that the
C<not_ascii> bucket is empty because none of the items matched it.
=head2 Monitoring system check results
Suppose you ran a list of checks with your monitoring system, and you have a
list of hashrefs describing each check and its outcome:
my @checks = (
{
hostname => 'webserver1',
status => 'OK',
},
{
hostname => 'webserver2',
status => 'CRITICAL',
},
{
hostname => 'webserver3',
status => 'WARNING',
},
{
hostname => 'webserver4',
status => 'OK',
}
);
You would like to break the list down by status. Using C<List::Breakdown>, you
would lay out your buckets like so:
my %buckets = (
ok => sub { $_->{status} eq 'OK' },
problem => {
warning => sub { $_->{status} eq 'WARNING' },
critical => sub { $_->{status} eq 'CRITICAL' },
unknown => sub { $_->{status} eq 'UNKNOWN' },
},
);
And apply them like so:
my %results = breakdown \%buckets, @checks;
You can then apply C<%buckets> to any other list you may need to check in the
same way to get the same structure.
For our sample data above, this would yield the following structure in
C<%results>:
(
ok => [
{
hostname => 'webserver1',
status => 'OK'
},
{
hostname => 'webserver4',
status => 'OK'
}
],
problem => {
warning => [
{
hostname => 'webserver3',
status => 'WARNING'
}
],
critical => [
{
hostname => 'webserver2',
status => 'CRITICAL'
}
],
unknown => []
}
)
Note the extra level of hash referencing beneath the C<problem> key.
=head2 Grouping numbers by size
Suppose you have a list of stray numbers from your volcanic activity reporting
system, some of which might be merely worrisome and some an emergency, and they
need to be filtered to know where to send them:
my @numbers = ( 1, 32, 3718.4, 0x56, 0777, 3.14, -5, 1.2e5 );
You could filter them into buckets like this, using the interval syntax; an
array reference with exactly two elements; lower bound (inclusive) first, upper
bound (exclusive) second:
my $filters = {
negative => [ undef, 0 ],
positive => {
small => [ 0, 10 ],
medium => [ 10, 100 ],
large => [ 100, undef ],
},
};
Applying the bucket structure like so:
my %filtered = breakdown $filters, @numbers;
The result set would look like this:
my %expected = (
negative => [ -5 ]
positive => {
small => [ 1, 3.14 ],
medium => [ 32, 86 ],
large => [ 3_718.4, 511, 120_000 ]
},
);
Notice that you can express infinity or negative infinity as C<undef>. Note
also this is a numeric comparison only.
=head1 AUTHOR
Tom Ryder C<< <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> >>
=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
=over 4
=item HASH reference expected for first argument
The first argument that B<breakdown()> saw wasn't the hash reference it expects.
That's the only format a spec is allowed to have.
=item Reference expected for '%s'
The value for the named key in the spec was not a reference, and one was
expected.
=item Unhandled ref type %s for '%s'
The value for the named key in the spec is of a type that makes no sense to
this module. Legal reference types are C<HASH>, C<CODE>, and C<Regexp>.
=back
=head1 DEPENDENCIES
=over 4
=item *
Perl 5.6.0 or newer
=item *
C<base>
=item *
C<Carp>
=item *
C<Exporter>
=back
=head1 CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
None required.
=head1 INCOMPATIBILITIES
None known.
=head1 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
Definitely. This is a very early release. Please report any bugs or feature
requests to C<tom@sanctum.geek.nz>.
=head1 SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the C<perldoc> command.
perldoc List::Breakdown
You can also look for information at:
=over 4
=item * RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=List-Breakdown>
=item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
<http://annocpan.org/dist/List-Breakdown>
=item * CPAN Ratings
<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/List-Breakdown>
=item * Search CPAN
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/List-Breakdown/>
=back
=head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Tom Ryder
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full
license at:
<http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0>
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