NAME

Data::Trace - Trace when a data structure gets updated.

SYNOPSIS

    use Data::Trace;

    my $data = {a => [0, {complex => 1}]};
    sub BadCall{ $data->{a}[0] = 1 }
    Data::Trace->Trace($data);
    BadCall();  # Shows strack trace of where data was changed.

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a convienient way to find out when a data structure has been updated.

It is a debugging/tracing aid for complex systems to identify unintentional alteration to data structures which should be treated as read-only.

Probably can also create a variable as read-only in Moose and see where its been changed, but this module is without Moose support.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

Trace

 Data::Trace->Trace( \$scalar );
 Data::Trace->Trace( \@array );
 Data::Trace->Trace( \@hash );
 Data::Trace->Trace( $complex_data );

AUTHOR

Tim Potapov, <tim.potapov at gmail.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to https://github.com/poti1/data-trace/issues.

Currently only detect STORE operations. Expand this to also detect PUSH, POP, DELETE, etc.

TODO

Consider adding an option to have a warn message anytime a structure is FETCHed.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Data::Trace

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 2022 by Tim Potapov.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)