Perl hash negation - perl

Can you help me correct the code snippet.
I want to list the server which is type eq xyz but not with namedservers.
our %SERVERS = (
"rajesh1" => {type => 'xyz', sha => 'ram'},
"rajesh2" => {type => 'xyz', sha => 'sita'},
"rajesh3" => {type => 'xyz', named => ["raa"]},
"rajesh4" => {type => 'xxx', named => ["rajjaj"]},
);
while ( my $mServer = each(%SERVERS) )
{
if ("$SERVERS{$mServer}{type}" eq "xyz" && !"$SERVERS{$mServer}{named}" )
{
print "Name of the server is $mServer\n";
}
}
Expected result:
rajesh1
rajesh2

You're missing a semicolon after the definition of %SERVERS.
You start calling it $mServer, then later say $gServer. Pick one!
Get rid of the quotes around $SERVERS{$mServer}{type} and $SERVERS{$mServer}{named} (once you've changed gServer to mServer—you don't need them.
You expect to see "rajesh1 rajesh2", but none of them have type "prod". How is that possible? Assuming you change their type to "prod" …
You expect to see "rajesh1 rajesh2", but you print "Name of the server is $mServer\n" (once you change gServer to mServer). Changing that to just "$mServer\n", and …
… it should work.
Hence:
our %SERVERS = (
"rajesh1" => {type => 'prod', sha => 'ram'},
"rajesh2" => {type => 'prod', sha => 'sita'},
"rajesh3" => {type => 'xyz', named => ["raa"]},
"rajesh4" => {type => 'xxx', named => ["rajjaj"]},
);
while (my $mServer = each %SERVERS) {
if ($SERVERS{$mServer}{type} eq "prod" && !$SERVERS{$mServer}{named}) {
print "$mServer\n";
}
}
Then:
$ perl test.pl
rajesh1
rajesh2
$

Complete sample, catching both of each's return values, which reduces visual clutter:
use strict;
use warnings;
our %SERVERS = (
"rajesh1" => {type => 'xyz', sha => 'ram'},
"rajesh2" => {type => 'xyz', sha => 'sita'},
"rajesh3" => {type => 'xyz', named => ["raa"]},
"rajesh4" => {type => 'xxx', named => ["rajjaj"]},
"rajesh5" => {type => 'prod', sha => 'ram'},
"rajesh6" => {type => 'prod', named => ["jajaja"]},
);
while ( my( $mServer, $mData ) = each %SERVERS ) {
if ($mData->{type} eq "prod" && !$mData->{named}) {
print "Name of the server is $mServer\n";
}
}

You are looking for defined.
if ($SERVERS{$mServer}->{type} eq "xyz" &&
! defined $SERVERS{$mServer}->{named} )
...
You were using an undefined variable $gServer where apparently you meant to use the loop variable $mServer. You should use strict; use warnings; in all your scripts; that makes it easy to catch this mistake (and a slew of others).
I use the indirection operator -> to access the contents of hash references as a matter of preference. I also removed some gratuitous quoting as a stylistic change.

Related

Type::Tiny and deep coercions

I'm trying to get deep coercions work with Type::Tiny without any success. From the manual it's said that:
"Certain parameterized type constraints can automatically acquire
coercions if their parameters have coercions. For example:
ArrayRef[Int->plus_coercions(Num, q{int($_)}) ]
... does what you mean!"
What I try to accomplish is getting something like this "do what I mean":
package Person;
use Types::Standard -types;
use Moo;
has name => (is => 'ro', isa => Str);
package Family;
use Types::Standard -types;
use Moo;
has members => (is => 'ro', isa => ArrayRef[InstanceOf['Person']]);
package main;
my $family = Family->new(members => [
'mom',
Person->new(name => 'dad'),
Person->new(name => 'girl'),
'dog'
]);
When instantiating Family with elements that are a Str they should be automatically be coerced into Person objects. I've tried a range of different ideas (plus_coercions, Type libraries, etc) without any luck. They all fail in the same way.
When using plus_coercions (from Str to Object)
package Family;
has members => (
is => 'ro',
isa => ArrayRef[ Object->plus_coercions(Str, q{ Person->new(name => $_) }) ],
);
Type::Tiny throws an exception:
Reference ["mom",bless( {"name" => "dad"}, 'Person' ),bless( {"name" =...] did not pass type constraint "ArrayRef[Object]" (in $args->{"members"})
"ArrayRef[Object]" constrains each value in the array with "Object"
"Object" is a subtype of "Object"
"Object" is a subtype of "Ref"
Value "mom" did not pass type constraint "Ref" (in $args->{"members"}->[0])
"Ref" is defined as: (!!ref($_))
I know I could get around this by modifying the arguments to Family->new using a BUILDARGS sub in Family, but it would be neat if Type::Tiny could do that automatically.
Update
Thanks to Tobys friendly help, I got this working. The only part that troubled me a bit was the use of ArrayRef[Object] instead of the correct ArrayRef[InstanceOf['Person']] (InstanceOf doesn't have any plus_coercions). With Object an instance of any class could have been inserted into members, and that is certainly not what you want.
Got around that by making a class_type. Here's the full working code:
package Person;
use Types::Standard -types;
use Moo;
has name => (is => 'ro', isa => Str);
package Family;
use Types::Standard -types;
use Type::Utils -all;
use Moo;
my $Person = class_type { class => 'Person' };
my $Members = ArrayRef[
$Person->plus_coercions(Str, q{ Person->new(name => $_) })
];
has members => (
is => 'ro',
isa => $Members,
coerce => $Members->coercion,
);
sub list { join(', ', map { $_->name } #{ $_[0]->members }) }
package main;
my $family = Family->new(members => [
'mom',
Person->new(name => 'dad'),
Person->new(name => 'girl'),
'dog'
]);
print $family->list, "\n";
Which nicely prints mom, dad, girl, dog when run.
Moose/Moo/Mouse attributes don't coerce by default, so even though the type constraint has a coercion, you need to tell the attribute to use that coercion!
If you were using Moose or Mouse, you could do:
has members => (
is => 'ro',
isa => ArrayRef[ Object->plus_coercions(Str, q{ Person->new(name => $_) }) ],
coerce => 1,
);
But Moo doesn't support coerce=>1; instead it expects a coderef or overloaded object to act as the coercion. Type::Tiny can provide you with a suitable overloaded object by calling $type->coercion.
# Let's store the type constraint in a variable to avoid repetition...
my $type = ArrayRef[
Object->plus_coercions( Str, q{Person->new(name => $_)} )
];
has members => (
is => 'ro',
isa => $type,
coerce => $type->coercion,
);

Moose empty value for typed attributes

Is there some way in Moose to specify that I want an attribute to have a specific type, but also allow there to be a null value (undef?).
For example I am writing a simple implementation of a Linked List and have a Node class where the next and prev pointers are required to be of type Node (this is probably what you would expect)
package Node;
{
use Moose;
has 'value' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Any', # Nodes can be of any type
);
has 'prev' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Node',
predicate => 'has_prev',
);
has 'next' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Node',
predicate => 'has_next',
);
}
But I was hoping to use a sentinel, empty node stored at the head of the list to mark the head, instead of an actual element of the list. So a list of elements [1, 2, 3] would actually look like:
EMPTY -> 1 -> 2 -> 3
I was hoping to be able to specify a empty value (like undef) for the next and prev pointers, but when I create an empty Node in my List class:
package List;
{
use Moose;
has 'head' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Node',
# empty head node
default => sub {
Node->new( value => undef, next => undef, prev => undef );
},
);
Moose complains because undef is not of type Node.
Is there a way around this ?
You can use the Maybe[type] syntax to allow the type or undef. For your example:
has 'head' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Maybe[Node]',
# empty head node
default => sub {
Node->new( value => undef, next => undef, prev => undef );
}
);
The next:
use 5.014;
use warnings;
package Node {
use Moose;
has 'value' => ( is => 'rw');
has 'prev' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Undef|Node', predicate => 'has_prev', default=>undef );
has 'next' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Undef|Node', predicate => 'has_next', default=>undef );
}
package List {
use Moose;
has 'head' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Node', default => sub { Node->new() } );
}
package main;
use Data::Dumper;
my $list = List->new();
say Dumper $list;
prints:
$VAR1 = bless( {
'head' => bless( {
'next' => undef,
'prev' => undef
}, 'Node' )
}, 'List' );
The Moose::Manual::Types says for the basic hier:
Undef <---- undefined
Defined
Value
Str
Num
Int
ClassName <---- Class name
RoleName
and later in the section TYPE UNIONS says:
Moose allows you to say that an attribute can be of two or more
disparate types. For example, we might allow an Object or FileHandle:
has 'output' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Object | FileHandle', );
As others already says, here is a Maybe[Something] too, I haven't idea what is better, but the Something | SomethingOther looks more "perlish" (IMHO). ;)
The authors prefer Undef|Node over Maybe[Node].
has 'prev' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Undef|Node',
predicate => 'has_prev',
);

Perl Moose attributes with minimum, maximum, and default value

Using Moose, it's possible to create attributes having a default value.
I have a set of attributes which all have a minimum, maximum and a default value.
They are attributes representing a scale (such as Tk::Scale).
Currently, I have at least 3 attributes:
current & default:
has 'attr' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', default => 300, lazy => 1, clearer => '_clear_attr');
min:
has 'attr_min' => (is => 'rw', isa => Int', default => 100);
max:
has 'attr_max' => (is => 'rw', isa => Int', default => 1000);
Is it possioble to have all four (current, default, min, max) in one attribute?
I think you want to create a validation rule.
use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
subtype 'ScaleVal',
as 'Int',
where { 100 <= $_ && $_ <= 1000 };
has attr => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'ScaleVal',
default => 300,
);
There are of course a lot of ways to combine a bunch of values into a more complex value -- that's basically what the study of data structures is about. What particular data structures to choose is a fairly involved question, highly dependent on your actual use cases.
I know fairly little about your case, but the thing I've gleaned from your question that all of these attributes represent similarly-structured concepts. And so I would create a new data type, the Scale:
use MooseX::Declare;
class Scale {
for (qw/min max def/) {
has $_ => (is => 'ro', isa => 'Num', required => 1);
}
has val => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Num', lazy_build => 1);
method _build_val() {
return $self->def;
}
method BUILD($args) {
confess "Out of range!" unless $self->_is_in_range($self->val);
}
method _is_in_range($val) {
return defined $val && $val >= $self->min && $val <= $self->max;
}
before val ($new_val?) {
return unless defined $new_val;
confess "Out of range!" unless $self->_is_in_range($new_val);
}
}
And I would present attributes on some ThingWithScale that were backed by a Scale object.
class ThingWithScale {
has _attr => (
is => 'ro', isa => 'Scale',
default => sub { shift->_make_attr() },
);
method _make_attr($class: $val?) {
return Scale->new(
min => 100, max => 1000, def => 200,
(defined $val ? (val => $val) : ()),
)
}
# Convert `attr` argument to a `Scale` object before passing to real constructor.
sub BUILDARGS {
my ($class, %args) = #_;
if (defined (my $attr = delete $args{attr})) {
%args = (
%args,
_attr => $class->_make_attr($attr)
);
}
return $class->SUPER::BUILDARGS(%args);
}
}
my $thing = ThingWithScale->new(attr => 101);
And about the time I was writing that BUILDARGS method to automatically instantiate a Scale object from the simple constructor parameter, I would realize that what I really wanted to do was to invent a new attribute trait to describe attributes that had minimum and maximum legal values.

Lazy Attribute Coercion

With Moose, you can have lazy builders on attributes, where the builder is called when the attribute is first accessed if the attribute was not already populated. You can have type coercion of an attribute with coerce, but this is applied whenever the attribute is set, so even on object initialization.
I'm looking for a way to implement lazy coercion, where an attribute may be initially populated, but is only coerced when it is first accessed. This is important when coercion is expensive.
In the following example, I use a union type and method modifiers to do this:
package My::Foo;
use Moose;
has x => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'ArrayRef | Int',
required => 1
);
around "x" => sub {
my $orig = shift;
my $self = shift;
my $val = $self->$orig(#_);
unless(ref($val)) {
# Do the cocerion
$val = [ map { 1 } 1..$val ];
sleep(1); # in my case this is expensive
}
return $val;
};
1;
my $foo = My::Foo->new( x => 4 );
is_deeply $foo->x, [ 1, 1, 1, 1 ], "x converted from int to array at call time";
However there are a few problems with this:
I dislike the union type + method modifier approach. It goes against the "Best Practices" suggestion to use coercion instead of unions. It isn't declarative.
I need to do this with many attributes across many classes. Therefore some form of DRY is needed. This could be meta-attribute roles, type-coercion, what have you.
Update:
I followed ikegami's suggestion to encapsulate the expensive type coercion inside an object and provide an outer coercion to this object:
package My::ArrayFromInt;
use Moose;
use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
subtype 'My::ArrayFromInt::Inner',
as 'ArrayRef[Int]';
coerce 'My::ArrayFromInt::Inner',
from 'Int',
via { return [ (1) x $_ ] };
has uncoerced => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Any', required => 1);
has value => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'My::ArrayFromInt::Inner',
builder => '_buildValue',
lazy => 1,
coerce => 1
);
sub _buildValue {
my ($self) = #_;
return $self->uncoerced;
}
1;
package My::Foo;
use Moose;
use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
subtype 'My::ArrayFromInt::Lazy' => as class_type('My::ArrayFromInt');
coerce 'My::ArrayFromInt::Lazy',
from 'Int',
via { My::ArrayFromInt->new( uncoerced => $_ ) };
has x => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'My::ArrayFromInt::Lazy',
required => 1,
coerce => 1
);
1;
This works if $foo->x->value is called. However this doesn't solve point #2, as I would need to create My::ArrayFromInt and the ::Lazy subtype for each attribute I would like to transform. And I'd like to avoid calling $foo->x->value if possible.
How about having the typedef along the lines described, then doing
has _x => (
is => 'ro',
isa => 'Int|MyArrayOfInts',
init_arg => 'x',
required => 1,
);
has x => (
is => 'ro',
lazy => 1,
isa => 'MyArrayOfInts',
coerce => 1,
default => sub { $_[0]->_x },
);
It'd make sense to wrap that up into some kind of helper method to create the pair of objects along the lines of
has_lazily_coerced x => (
is => 'ro',
isa => 'TargetType',
);
which would introspect on TargetType to get a list of legal types for the uncoerced shadow attribute and generate the pair of attributes for you.

How do I sort by value from a second level hash, in Perl?

my $hash_ref = {
one => { val => 1, name => 'one' },
three => { val => 3, name => 'three'},
two => { val => 2, name => 'two' },
};
I would like to sort $hash_ref such that a foreach would order them by
$hash_ref->{$key}->{'val'}
one
two
three
Any suggestions?
#sorted_list is an array of references to the sorted hash elements:
#sorted_list = sort { $a->{'val'} <=> $b->{'val'} } values %{$unsorted_hash_ref};
You can use it like so:
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $hash_ref = {
one => { val => 1, name => 'one' },
three => { val => 3, name => 'three' },
two => { val => 2, name => 'two' },
};
foreach $elem ( sort { $a->{'val'} <=> $b->{'val'} } values %{$hash_ref} ) {
print "$elem->{'val'} : $elem->{'name'}\n";
}
Output:
1 : one
2 : two
3 : three
Hash tables don't have any specific order. However, you can sort the keys in an array and use that to iterate through the hash:
my $hash_ref = {
one => { val => 1, name => 'one'},
three => { val => 3, name => 'three'},
two => { val => 2, name => 'two'},
};
use strict;
use warnings;
use Lingua::EN::Words2Nums;
foreach my $key (sort { words2nums($a) <=> words2nums($b) } keys %$hash_ref)
{
# do something with $hash_ref->{$key}
print "processing key $key.\n";
}
You can define anything you like as a sort method; see perldoc -f sort for more details. Conversion from ordinal numerical text to arithmetic values is done with Lingua::EN::Words2Nums (it does cardinal numbers too).
use strict;
use warnings;
my %hash_ref = (
one => { val => 1, name => 'one' },
three => { val => 3, name => 'three'},
two => { val => 2, name => 'two' },
);
foreach my $key(sort {$hash_ref{$a}{val} <=> $hash_ref{$b}{val}} keys %hash_ref) {
my $value = $hash_ref{$key}{val};
my $name = $hash_ref{$key}{name};
print "$name -> $value\n";
}
output:
one -> 1
two -> 2
three -> 3
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $hash_ref = (
one => {val => 1, name => "one"},
three => {val => 3, name => "three"},
two => {val => 2, name => 'two'},
);
foreach $elem( sort {$$hash_ref{$a}{val} <=> $$hash_ref{$b}{val}} keys %$hash_ref){
my $value = $hash_ref->{$elem}{val};
my $name = $hash_ref->{$elem}{name};
print "$name -> $value\n";
}
OutPut:
one -> 1
two -> 2
three -> 3