NAME

Remember::Anything::AsPath - remember objects seen by a specific created id in a folder structure

VERSION

version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

  use Remember::Anything::AsPath;

  my $book = {
      url   => 'www.books.de/3',
      name  => 'I <3 perl',
      price => 999,
  };

  my $brain = Remember::Anything::AsPath->new(
      tree_depth => $some_int # 1, only file directly, 2 one folder then file ....
                              # default is 2
      digest_sub => sub {
          # return pathfriendly checksum of string
          # on default this is sha1_hex
      },
      out_dir => 'where/to/start/with/tree' # default '.'
  );

  # remember $book object in
  $brain->remember($book);

  if ($brain->seen($another_book) {
      # discard? ...
  }
  else {
      # save
      push @books, $another_book;
  }

DESCRIPTION

Remember $anything in a tree of folders and empty files.

METHODS

remember

  $brain->remember($anything);

Remember $antything in the filesystem. $anything will be hashed and saved in a tree of folders and one empty file.

Example for tree_depth of 2:

$anything -> $hashed_id -> out_dir/$id_part_1/$id_part_2/$id_part_3

seen

  $brain->seen($anything);

Checks if there is an existing file path for the hashed id of $anything. If $anything has been remembered before it will return 1, otherwise 0.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ac0vs dirty and beautiful way of avoiding a database.

LICENSE

This is released under the Artistic License.

AUTHOR

spebern <bernhard@specht.net>