VERSION

This document describes version 1.1.52 of Rinci::result (from Perl distribution Rinci), released on 2014-06-29.

SPECIFICATION VERSION

 1.1

INTRODUCTION

This document describes metadata for function/method result. This specification is part of Rinci. Please do a read up on it first, if you have not already done so.

SPECIFICATION

There are currently several properties being used:

Property: undo_data => ANY

(DEPRECATED) Explained in "undo" feature section in Rinci::function.

Properties: func.* => ANY

These properties allow function to return extra stuffs. Usually done to avoid breaking format of existing result (to maintain API compatibility). The attributes after "func." is up to the respective function. An example is the "get_args_from_argv()" function in the Perinci::Sub::GetArgs::Argv Perl module. The function returns $args but from v0.26 it also wants to give hints about whether or not there are missing arguments. It can do this via "func.missing_arg" result metadata.

Properties: cmdline.*

Interpreted by Perinci::CmdLine. See its documentation for more detail.

Property: logs => ARRAY OF HASH

Store log of events happening to this result, stored chronologically (older first). Each log should be a hash which should have at least the following keys: "time" (Unix timestamp), "type" (string).

Normally, the first element of the log will contain information about who produced the result and where/when. It has the "type" key with the value of "create". It should be a hash with the following keys:

• package => STR

  Package (namespace) where this result is produced.

• file => STR

  File name where the result is created. Might be a relative or absolute path.

• line => INT

  Line number where the result is created.

• func => STR

  Function name where this result is produced.

• stack_trace => ARRAY

  Optional, a stack trace. In Perl this can be produced by using << [caller(1), caller(2), ...] >>.

Property: prev => ARRAY

Store ``previous result''. Result MUST be enveloped. Usually useful when tracing errors, especially in conjunction with "logs": when reporting error that results from a call to another function, the original result can be set here, to preserve information. See Perinci::Sub::Util's "err()" for a convenience function for this, and Perinci::CmdLine's way of displaying it.

Example:

 sub f1 {
     ...
     if (error) { return [500, "Can't f1: blah"] }
     ...
 }
 sub f2 {
     ...
     my $res = f1(...);
     if ($res is error) { return [500, "Can't f2", undef, {prev=>$res}] }
     ...
 }
 sub f3 {
     ...
     my $res = f1(...);
     if ($res is error) { return [500, "Can't f3", undef, {prev=>$res}] }
 }

FAQ

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at <https://metacpan.org/release/Rinci>.

SOURCE

Source repository is at <https://github.com/sharyanto/perl-Rinci>.

AUTHOR

Steven Haryanto <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Steven Haryanto.

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