NAME

App::perlimports::ExportInspector - Inspect code for exportable symbols

VERSION

version 0.000021

SYNOPSIS

    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use App::perlimport::ExportInspector ();

    my $ei = App::perlimport::ExportInspector->new(
        module_name => 'Carp',
    );

    my $exports = $ei->explicit_exports;

DESCRIPTION

Inspect modules to see what they might export.

MOTIVATION

Since we're (maybe) importing symbols as part of this process, we've sandboxed it a little bit by not doing it in App::perlimports directly.

METHODS

The following methods are available.

implicit_exports

A HashRef with keys representing symbols which a module implicitly exports (i.e. via use Module::Name;. The values represent the import value which you would need in order to explicitly import the symbol. Often these will be the same, but there are exceptions. For example, a type library may export is_ArrayRef, but you import it via use My::Type::Library qw( ArrayRef );.

explicit_exports

A HashRef with keys representing symbols which a module explicitly exports (i.e. via use Module::Name qw( foo bar );. The values represent the import value which you would need in order to explicitly import the symbol. Often these will be the same, but there are exceptions. For example, a type library may export is_ArrayRef, but you import it via use My::Type::Library qw( ArrayRef );.

In cases where we cannot be certain about the explicit exports, you can try to fall back to the implicit exports to get an idea of what this module can export.

implicit_export_names_match_values

Returns true if the keys and values in implicit_exports match.

explicit_export_names_match_values

Returns true if the keys and values in explicit_exports match.

CAVEATS

This may not work with modules using some creative way of managing symbol exports.

AUTHOR

Olaf Alders <olaf@wundercounter.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Olaf Alders.

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