I actually like names that sound like food<g!> On a slightly more serious note---If I were looking for stringification, I wouldn't be looking under HashWrapper. Perhaps Tie::HashStringify or the like?
--hsm > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:00 PM > To: Module Authors > Subject: Simple multi-level tie > > > I would like the ability to store a complicated record inside of a DBM > file. I looked in the usual places and perldoc -q DBM gives me: > > Either stringify the structure yourself (no fun), or else get > the MLDBM (which uses Data::Dumper) module from CPAN and layer > it on top of either DB_File or GDBM_File. > > Therefore, I went in search of a solution to automate the > stringification. I didn't find anything other than MLDBM for doing > something like this and it seems like a little much for my purposes. All > I need is something like this: > > $hash{name} = "value1:value2:value3:..."; > > I've done some work with Tie::Memoize and really like it's interface, so > I decided to write something like it for wrapping hashes. Thus, > Tie::HashWrapper was born. It may be used like this: > > tie my %wrappee, 'AnyDBM_File', ...; > tie my %wrapper, 'Tie::HashWrapper', \%wrappee, > -deflate_value => sub { join ':', @{$_[0]} }, > -inflate_value => sub { split /:/, $_[0] }; > > $wrapper{name} = [ value1, value2, value3 ]; > > and so forth. In addition, if one wants to have more complicated keys, > one may add -deflate_key/-inflate_key values to the call to tie. I > haven't uploaded it CPAN yet pending documentation and finding a good > name. > > Does Tie::HashWrapper seem reasonable? Or does anyone have a better > name? Have I gone off the deep-end again and rewritten something that > already exists and I missed it? > > Cheers, > Sterling > > -- > <>< ><> <>< ><> <>< ><> <>< ><> <>< ><> <>< ><> <>< ><> <>< ><> <>< ><> > Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp > http://Andrew.Sterling.Hanenkamp.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There exists in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which > impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, > and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality under > freedom. -- Alexis de Tocqueville >
