APR::Table - Perl API for manipulating APR opaque string-content tables
use APR::Table (); $table = APR::Table::make($pool, $nelts); $table_copy = $table->copy($pool); $table->clear(); $table->set($key => $val); $table->unset($key); $table->add($key, $val); $val = $table->get($key); @val = $table->get($key); $table->merge($key => $val); use APR::Const -compile qw(:table); $table_overlay = $table_base->overlay($table_overlay, $pool); $table_overlay->compress(APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE); $table_a->overlap($table_b, APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET); $table->do(sub {print "key $_[0], value $_[1]\n"}, @valid_keys); #Tied Interface $value = $table->{$key}; $table->{$key} = $value; print "got it" if exists $table->{$key}; foreach my $key (keys %{$table}) { print "$key = $table->{$key}\n"; }
APR::Table allows its users to manipulate opaque string-content tables.
APR::Table
The table's structure is somewhat similar to the Perl's hash structure, but allows multiple values for the same key. An access to the records stored in the table always requires a key.
The key-value pairs are stored in the order they are added.
The keys are case-insensitive.
However as of the current implementation if more than value for the same key is requested, the whole table is lineary searched, which is very inefficient unless the table is very small.
APR::Table provides a TIE Interface.
See apr/include/apr_tables.h in ASF's apr project for low level details.
APR::Table provides the following functions and/or methods:
add
Add data to a table, regardless of whether there is another element with the same key.
$table->add($key, $val);
$table
APR::Table object
The table to add to.
$key
The key to use.
$val
The value to add.
When adding data, this function makes a copy of both the key and the value.
clear
Delete all of the elements from a table.
$table->clear();
The table to clear.
compress
Eliminate redundant entries in a table by either overwriting or merging duplicates:
$table->compress($flags);
The table to compress.
$flags
APR::Const constant
APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE -- to merge APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET -- to overwrite
Converts multi-valued keys in $table into single-valued keys. This function takes duplicate table entries and flattens them into a single entry. The flattening behavior is controlled by the (mandatory) $flags argument.
When $flags == APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET, each key will be set to the last value seen for that key. For example, given key/value pairs 'foo => bar' and 'foo => baz', 'foo' would have a final value of 'baz' after compression -- the 'bar' value would be lost.
APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET
When $flags == APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE, multiple values for the same key are flattened into a comma-separated list. Given key/value pairs 'foo => bar' and 'foo => baz', 'foo' would have a final value of 'bar, baz' after compression.
APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE
Access the constants via:
use APR::Const -compile qw(:table);
or an explicit:
use APR::Const -compile qw(OVERLAP_TABLES_SET OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE);
compress() combined with overlay() does the same thing as overlap().
compress()
overlay()
overlap()
Examples:
Start with table $table:
foo => "one" foo => "two" foo => "three" bar => "beer"
which is done by:
use APR::Const -compile => ':table'; my $table = APR::Table::make($r->pool, TABLE_SIZE); $table->set(bar => 'beer'); $table->set(foo => 'one'); $table->add(foo => 'two'); $table->add(foo => 'three');
Now compress it using APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET:
$table->compress(APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET);
Now table $table contains:
foo => "three" bar => "beer"
The value three for the key foo, that was added last, took over the other values.
as in the previous example, now compress it using APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE:
$table->compress(APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE);
foo => "one, two, three" bar => "beer"
All the values for the same key were merged into one value.
copy
Create a new table and copy another table into it.
$table_copy = $table->copy($p);
The table to copy.
$p
APR::Pool object
The pool to allocate the new table out of.
$table_copy
A copy of the table passed in.
do
Iterate over all the elements of the table, invoking provided subroutine for each element. The subroutine gets passed as argument, a key-value pair.
$table->do(sub {...}, @filter);
The table to operate on.
$sub
A subroutine reference or name to be called on each item in the table. The subroutine can abort the iteration by returning 0 and should always return 1 otherwise.
@filter
If passed, only keys matching one of the entries in f@filter will be processed.
This filter simply prints out the key/value pairs and counts how many pairs did it see.
use constant TABLE_SIZE => 20; our $filter_count; my $table = APR::Table::make($r->pool, TABLE_SIZE); # populate the table with ascii data for (1..TABLE_SIZE) { $table->set(chr($_+97), $_); } $filter_count = 0; $table->do("my_filter"); print "Counted $filter_count elements"; sub my_filter { my($key, $value) = @_; warn "$key => $value\n"; $filter_count++; return 1; }
Notice that my_filter always returns 1, ensuring that do() will pass all the key/value pairs.
my_filter
do()
This filter is similar to the one from the previous example, but this time it decides to abort the filtering after seeing half of the table, by returning 0 when this happens.
sub my_filter { my($key, $value) = @_; $filter_count++; return $filter_count == int(TABLE_SIZE)/2 ? 0 : 1; }
get
Get the value(s) associated with a given key. After this call, the data is still in the table.
$val = $table->get($key); @val = $table->get($key);
The table to search for the key.
The key to search for.
@val
In the scalar context the first matching value returned (the oldest in the table, if there is more than one value). If nothing matches undef is returned.
undef
In the list context the whole table is traversed and all matching values are returned. An empty list is returned if nothing matches.
make
Make a new table.
$table = APR::Table::make($p, $nelts);
The pool to allocate the pool out of.
$nelts
The number of elements in the initial table. At least 1 or more. If 0 is passed APR will still allocate 1.
The new table.
This table can only store text data.
merge
Add data to a table by merging the value with data that has already been stored using ", " as a separator:
$table->merge($key, $val);
The table to search for the data.
The key to merge data for.
The data to add.
If the key is not found, then this function acts like add().
add()
If there is more than one value for the same key, only the first (the oldest) value gets merged.
Start with a pair:
merge => "1"
and merge "a" to the value:
$table->set( merge => '1'); $table->merge(merge => 'a'); $val = $table->get('merge');
Result:
$val == "1, a";
Start with a multivalued pair:
merge => "1" merge => "2"
and merge "a" to the first value;
$table->set( merge => '1'); $table->add( merge => '2'); $table->merge(merge => 'a'); @val = $table->get('merge');
$val[0] == "1, a"; $val[1] == "2";
Only the first value for the same key is affected.
Have no entry and merge "a";
$table->merge(miss => 'a'); $val = $table->get('miss');
$val == "a";
overlap
For each key/value pair in $table_b, add the data to $table_a. The definition of $flags explains how $flags define the overlapping method.
$table_b
$table_a
$table_a->overlap($table_b, $flags);
The table to add the data to.
The table to iterate over, adding its data to table $table_a
How to add the table to table $table_a.
When $flags == APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET, if another element already exists with the same key, this will over-write the old data.
When $flags == APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE, the key/value pair from $table_b is added, regardless of whether there is another element with the same key in $table_a.
This function is highly optimized, and uses less memory and CPU cycles than a function that just loops through table $table_b calling other functions.
Conceptually, overlap() does this:
apr_array_header_t *barr = apr_table_elts(b); apr_table_entry_t *belt = (apr_table_entry_t *)barr-E<gt>elts; int i; for (i = 0; i < barr->nelts; ++i) { if (flags & APR_OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE) { apr_table_mergen(a, belt[i].key, belt[i].val); } else { apr_table_setn(a, belt[i].key, belt[i].val); } }
Except that it is more efficient (less space and cpu-time) especially when $table_b has many elements.
Notice the assumptions on the keys and values in $table_b -- they must be in an ancestor of $table_a's pool. In practice $table_b and $table_a are usually from the same pool.
Start with table $base:
$base
foo => "one" foo => "two" bar => "beer"
and table $add:
$add
foo => "three"
use APR::Const -compile => ':table'; my $base = APR::Table::make($r->pool, TABLE_SIZE); my $add = APR::Table::make($r->pool, TABLE_SIZE); $base->set(bar => 'beer'); $base->set(foo => 'one'); $base->add(foo => 'two'); $add->set(foo => 'three');
Now overlap using APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET:
$base->overlap($add, APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET);
Now table $add is unmodified and table $base contains:
The value from table add has overwritten all previous values for the same key both had (foo). This is the same as doing overlay() followed by compress() with APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET.
foo => "one" foo => "two"
use APR::Const -compile => ':table'; my $base = APR::Table::make($r->pool, TABLE_SIZE); my $add = APR::Table::make($r->pool, TABLE_SIZE); $base->set(foo => 'one'); $base->add(foo => 'two'); $add->set(foo => 'three'); $add->set(bar => 'beer');
Now overlap using APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE:
$base->overlap($add, APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE);
Values from both tables for the same key were merged into one value. This is the same as doing overlay() followed by compress() with APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_MERGE.
overlay
Merge two tables into one new table. The resulting table may have more than one value for the same key.
$table = $table_base->overlay($table_overlay, $p);
$table_base
The table to add at the end of the new table.
$table_overlay
The first table to put in the new table.
The pool to use for the new table.
A new table containing all of the data from the two passed in.
Now overlay using APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET:
my $overlay = $base->overlay($add, APR::OVERLAP_TABLES_SET);
That resulted in a new table $overlay (tables add and $base are unmodified) which contains:
$overlay
set
Add a key/value pair to a table, if another element already exists with the same key, this will over-write the old data.
$table->set($key, $val);
unset
Remove data from the table.
$table->unset($key);
The table to remove data from.
The key of the data being removed.
APR::Table also implements a tied interface, so you can work with the $table object as a hash reference.
The following tied-hash function are supported: FETCH, STORE, DELETE, CLEAR, EXISTS, FIRSTKEY, NEXTKEY and DESTROY.
FETCH
STORE
DELETE
CLEAR
EXISTS
FIRSTKEY
NEXTKEY
DESTROY
Note regarding the use of values(). APR::Table can hold more than one key-value pair sharing the same key, so when using a table through the tied interface, the first entry found with the right key will be used, completely disregarding possible other entries with the same key. With Perl 5.8.0 and higher values() will correctly list values the corresponding to the list generated by keys(). That doesn't work with Perl 5.6. Therefore to portably iterate over the key-value pairs, use each() (which fully supports multivalued keys), or APR::Table::do.
values()
keys()
each()
APR::Table::do
$ret = $table->EXISTS($key);
$ret
true or false
$table->CLEAR();
$table->STORE($key, $val);
$table->DELETE($key);
$ret = $table->FETCH($key);
When iterating through the table's entries with each(), FETCH will return the current value of a multivalued key. For example:
$table->add("a" => 1); $table->add("b" => 2); $table->add("c" => 3); ($k, $v) = each %$table; # (a, 1) print $table->{a}; # prints 1 ($k, $v) = each %$table; # (b, 2) print $table->{a}; # prints 1 ($k, $v) = each %$table; # (a, 3) print $table->{a}; # prints 3 !!! ($k, $v) = each %$table; # (undef, undef) print $table->{a}; # prints 1
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