NAME

App::CSelUtils - Utilities related to Data::CSel

VERSION

This document describes version 0.083 of App::CSelUtils (from Perl distribution App-CSelUtils), released on 2019-07-30.

DESCRIPTION

This distribution contains the following utilities:

• ddsel

• parse-csel

FUNCTIONS

ddsel

Usage:

 ddsel(%args) -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

Select Perl data structure elements using CSel (CSS-selector-like) syntax.

Note that this operates against Perl data structure, not Perl source code elements (see ppisel for that). File is Perl source code that defines data structure, e.g.:

 {
     summary => 'This is a hash',
     # this is an array inside a hash
     array => [
         1, 2, 3,
     ],
 };

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

• expr => str

• file => str (default: "-")

• node_actions => array[str] (default: ["print_as_string"])

  Specify action(s) to perform on matching nodes.

  Each action can be one of the following:

  • count will print the number of matching nodes.

  • print_method will call on or more of the node object's methods and print the result. Example:

    print_method:as_string

  • dump will show a indented text representation of the node and its descendants. Each line will print information about a single node: its class, followed by the value of one or more attributes. You can specify which attributes to use in a dot-separated syntax, e.g.:

    dump:tag.id.class

  which will result in a node printed like this:

   HTML::Element tag=p id=undef class=undef

  By default, if no attributes are specified, id is used. If the node class does not support the attribute, or if the value of the attribute is undef, then undef is shown.

• select_action => str (default: "csel")

  Specify how we should select nodes.

  The default is csel, which will select nodes from the tree using the CSel expression. Note that the root node itself is not included. For more details on CSel expression, refer to Data::CSel.

  root will return a single node which is the root node.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

parse_csel

Usage:

 parse_csel(%args) -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

Parse CSel expression.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

• expr* => str

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-CSelUtils.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-CSelUtils.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-CSelUtils

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

htmlsel, orgsel, jsonsel, yamlsel, podsel, ppisel

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2019, 2016 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm App::CSelUtils

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::CSelUtils