NAME

Eval::Reversible - Evals with undo stacks

VERSION

version v0.900.1

SYNOPSIS

    use Eval::Reversible;

    my $reversible = Eval::Reversible->new(
        failure_warning => "Undoing actions..",
    );

    $reversible->run_reversibly(sub {
        # Do something with a side effect
        open my $fh, '>', '/tmp/file' or die;

        # Specify how that side effect can be undone
        # (assuming '/tmp/file' did not exist before)
        $reversible->add_undo(sub { close $fh; unlink '/tmp/file' });

        operation_that_might_die($fh);
        operation_that_might_get_SIGINTed($fh);

        close $fh;
        unlink '/tmp/file';

        $reversible->clear_undo;
        $reversible->failure_warning("Wasn't quite finished yet...");

        another_operation_that_might_die;
        $reversible->add_undo(sub { foobar; });

        $reversible->disarm;

        # This could die without an undo stack
        another_operation_that_might_die;

        $reversible->arm;

        # Previous undo stack back in play
    });

    # Alternative caller
    Eval::Reversible->run_reversibly(sub {
        my $reversible = $_[0];

        $reversible->add_undo(...);
        ...
    });

    # Alternative function interface
    reversibly {
        to_undo { ... };
        die;
    } 'Failed to run code; undoing...';

DESCRIPTION

Run code and automatically reverse their side effects if the code fails. This is done by way of an undo stack. By calling "add_undo" right after a side effect, the effect is undone on the event that the "run_reversibly" sub dies. For example:

    $reversible->run_reversibly(sub {
        print "hello\n";
        $reversible->add_undo(sub { print "goodbye\n" });
        die "uh oh\n" if $something_bad;
    });

This prints "hello" if $something_bad is false. If it's true, then both "hello" and "goodbye" are printed and the exception "uh oh" is rethrown.

Upon failure, any code refs provided by calling "add_undo" are executed in reverse order. Conceptually, we're unwinding the stack of side effects that $code performed up to the point of failure.

ATTRIBUTES

failure_warning

This is the message that will warn as soon as the operation failed. After this, the undo stack is unwound, and the exception is rethrown. Default is no message.

undo_stack

The undo stack, managed in LIFO order, as an arrayref of coderefs.

This attribute has the following handles, which is what you should really interact with:

add_undo

Adds another coderef to the undo stack via push.

pop_undo

Removes the last coderef and returns it via pop.

clear_undo

Clears all undo coderefs from the stack. Handy if the undo stack needs to be cleared out early if a "point of no return" has been reached prior the end of the "run_reversibly" code block. Alternatively, "disarm" could be used, but it doesn't clear the existing stack.

is_undo_empty

Returns a boolean that indicates whether the undo stack is empty or not.

armed

Boolean that controls if "run_reversibly" code blocks will actually run the undo stack upon failure. Turned on by default, but this can be enabled and disabled at will before or inside the code block.

Has the following handles:

arm

Arms the undo stack.

disarm

Disarms the undo stack.

METHODS

run_reversibly

    $reversible->run_reversibly($code);
    Eval::Reversible->run_reversibly($code);

Executes a code reference ($code) allowing operations with side effects to be automatically reversed if $code fails or is interrupted. Automatically clears the undo stack before the start of the code block.

Can be called as a class method, which will auto-create a new object, and pass it along as the first parameter to $code.

If $code is interrupted with SIGINT, the side effects are undone and an exception "SIGINT\n" is thrown.

run_undo

    $reversible->run_undo;

Runs the undo stack thus far. Always runs the bottom of the stack first (LIFO order). A finished run will clear out the stack via pop.

Can be called outside of "run_reversibly" if the eval was successful, but the undo stack still needs to be ran.

EXPORTABLE FUNCTIONS

Eval::Reversible also supports an exportable function interface. Though its usage is somewhat legacy, the functions are prototyped for reduced sigilla.

None of the functions are exported by default.

reversibly

    reversibly {
        ...
    } 'Failure message';

Creates a new localized Eval::Reversible object and calls "run_reversibly" on it. An optional failure message can be added to the end of coderef.

to_undo

    # Only inside of a reversibly block
    to_undo { rollback_everything };

Adds to the existing undo stack. Dies if called outside of a "reversibly" block.

SEE ALSO

Scope::Guard, Data::Transactional, Object::Transaction.

AUTHOR

Grant Street Group <developers@grantstreet.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2018 - 2020 by Grant Street Group.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)

cpanm Eval::Reversible

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Eval::Reversible