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Module::Load(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Module::Load(3pm) NAME
Module::Load - runtime require of both modules and files SYNOPSIS
use Module::Load; my $module = 'Data:Dumper'; load Data::Dumper; # loads that module load 'Data::Dumper'; # ditto load $module # tritto my $script = 'some/script.pl' load $script; load 'some/script.pl'; # use quotes because of punctuations load thing; # try 'thing' first, then 'thing.pm' load CGI, ':standard' # like 'use CGI qw[:standard]' DESCRIPTION
"load" eliminates the need to know whether you are trying to require either a file or a module. If you consult "perldoc -f require" you will see that "require" will behave differently when given a bareword or a string. In the case of a string, "require" assumes you are wanting to load a file. But in the case of a bareword, it assumes you mean a module. This gives nasty overhead when you are trying to dynamically require modules at runtime, since you will need to change the module notation ("Acme::Comment") to a file notation fitting the particular platform you are on. "load" eliminates the need for this overhead and will just DWYM. Rules "load" has the following rules to decide what it thinks you want: o If the argument has any characters in it other than those matching "w", ":" or "'", it must be a file o If the argument matches only "[w:']", it must be a module o If the argument matches only "w", it could either be a module or a file. We will try to find "file.pm" first in @INC and if that fails, we will try to find "file" in @INC. If both fail, we die with the respective error messages. Caveats Because of a bug in perl (#19213), at least in version 5.6.1, we have to hardcode the path separator for a require on Win32 to be "/", like on Unix rather than the Win32 "". Otherwise perl will not read its own %INC accurately double load files if they are required again, or in the worst case, core dump. "Module::Load" cannot do implicit imports, only explicit imports. (in other words, you always have to specify explicitly what you wish to import from a module, even if the functions are in that modules' @EXPORT) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Jonas B. Nielsen for making explicit imports work. BUG REPORTS
Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-module-load@rt.cpan.org<gt>. AUTHOR
This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. COPYRIGHT
This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.2 2012-10-11 Module::Load(3pm)
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Module::Load::Conditional(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Module::Load::Conditional(3pm) NAME
Module::Load::Conditional - Looking up module information / loading at runtime SYNOPSIS
use Module::Load::Conditional qw[can_load check_install requires]; my $use_list = { CPANPLUS => 0.05, LWP => 5.60, 'Test::More' => undef, }; print can_load( modules => $use_list ) ? 'all modules loaded successfully' : 'failed to load required modules'; my $rv = check_install( module => 'LWP', version => 5.60 ) or print 'LWP is not installed!'; print 'LWP up to date' if $rv->{uptodate}; print "LWP version is $rv->{version} "; print "LWP is installed as file $rv->{file} "; print "LWP requires the following modules to be installed: "; print join " ", requires('LWP'); ### allow M::L::C to peek in your %INC rather than just ### scanning @INC $Module::Load::Conditional::CHECK_INC_HASH = 1; ### reset the 'can_load' cache undef $Module::Load::Conditional::CACHE; ### don't have Module::Load::Conditional issue warnings -- ### default is '1' $Module::Load::Conditional::VERBOSE = 0; ### The last error that happened during a call to 'can_load' my $err = $Module::Load::Conditional::ERROR; DESCRIPTION
Module::Load::Conditional provides simple ways to query and possibly load any of the modules you have installed on your system during runtime. It is able to load multiple modules at once or none at all if one of them was not able to load. It also takes care of any error checking and so forth. Methods $href = check_install( module => NAME [, version => VERSION, verbose => BOOL ] ); "check_install" allows you to verify if a certain module is installed or not. You may call it with the following arguments: module The name of the module you wish to verify -- this is a required key version The version this module needs to be -- this is optional verbose Whether or not to be verbose about what it is doing -- it will default to $Module::Load::Conditional::VERBOSE It will return undef if it was not able to find where the module was installed, or a hash reference with the following keys if it was able to find the file: file Full path to the file that contains the module dir Directory, or more exact the @INC entry, where the module was loaded from. version The version number of the installed module - this will be "undef" if the module had no (or unparsable) version number, or if the variable $Module::Load::Conditional::FIND_VERSION was set to true. (See the "GLOBAL VARIABLES" section below for details) uptodate A boolean value indicating whether or not the module was found to be at least the version you specified. If you did not specify a version, uptodate will always be true if the module was found. If no parsable version was found in the module, uptodate will also be true, since "check_install" had no way to verify clearly. See also $Module::Load::Conditional::DEPRECATED, which affects the outcome of this value. $bool = can_load( modules => { NAME => VERSION [,NAME => VERSION] }, [verbose => BOOL, nocache => BOOL] ) "can_load" will take a list of modules, optionally with version numbers and determine if it is able to load them. If it can load *ALL* of them, it will. If one or more are unloadable, none will be loaded. This is particularly useful if you have More Than One Way (tm) to solve a problem in a program, and only wish to continue down a path if all modules could be loaded, and not load them if they couldn't. This function uses the "load" function from Module::Load under the hood. "can_load" takes the following arguments: modules This is a hashref of module/version pairs. The version indicates the minimum version to load. If no version is provided, any version is assumed to be good enough. verbose This controls whether warnings should be printed if a module failed to load. The default is to use the value of $Module::Load::Conditional::VERBOSE. nocache "can_load" keeps its results in a cache, so it will not load the same module twice, nor will it attempt to load a module that has already failed to load before. By default, "can_load" will check its cache, but you can override that by setting "nocache" to true. @list = requires( MODULE ); "requires" can tell you what other modules a particular module requires. This is particularly useful when you're intending to write a module for public release and are listing its prerequisites. "requires" takes but one argument: the name of a module. It will then first check if it can actually load this module, and return undef if it can't. Otherwise, it will return a list of modules and pragmas that would have been loaded on the module's behalf. Note: The list "require" returns has originated from your current perl and your current install. Global Variables The behaviour of Module::Load::Conditional can be altered by changing the following global variables: $Module::Load::Conditional::VERBOSE This controls whether Module::Load::Conditional will issue warnings and explanations as to why certain things may have failed. If you set it to 0, Module::Load::Conditional will not output any warnings. The default is 0; $Module::Load::Conditional::FIND_VERSION This controls whether Module::Load::Conditional will try to parse (and eval) the version from the module you're trying to load. If you don't wish to do this, set this variable to "false". Understand then that version comparisons are not possible, and Module::Load::Conditional can not tell you what module version you have installed. This may be desirable from a security or performance point of view. Note that $FIND_VERSION code runs safely under "taint mode". The default is 1; $Module::Load::Conditional::CHECK_INC_HASH This controls whether "Module::Load::Conditional" checks your %INC hash to see if a module is available. By default, only @INC is scanned to see if a module is physically on your filesystem, or available via an "@INC-hook". Setting this variable to "true" will trust any entries in %INC and return them for you. The default is 0; $Module::Load::Conditional::CACHE This holds the cache of the "can_load" function. If you explicitly want to remove the current cache, you can set this variable to "undef" $Module::Load::Conditional::ERROR This holds a string of the last error that happened during a call to "can_load". It is useful to inspect this when "can_load" returns "undef". $Module::Load::Conditional::DEPRECATED This controls whether "Module::Load::Conditional" checks if a dual-life core module has been deprecated. If this is set to true "check_install" will return false to "uptodate", if a dual-life module is found to be loaded from $Config{privlibexp} The default is 0; See Also "Module::Load" BUG REPORTS
Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-module-load-conditional@rt.cpan.org>. AUTHOR
This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. COPYRIGHT
This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.18.2 2014-01-06 Module::Load::Conditional(3pm)