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Plack::Util(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Plack::Util(3)

Plack::Util - Utility subroutines for Plack server and framework developers

TRUE, FALSE
  my $true  = Plack::Util::TRUE;
  my $false = Plack::Util::FALSE;
    

Utility constants to include when you specify boolean variables in $env hash (e.g. "psgi.multithread").

load_class
  my $class = Plack::Util::load_class($class [, $prefix ]);
    

Constructs a class name and "require" the class. Throws an exception if the .pm file for the class is not found, just with the built-in "require".

If $prefix is set, the class name is prepended to the $class unless $class begins with "+" sign, which means the class name is already fully qualified.

  my $class = Plack::Util::load_class("Foo");                   # Foo
  my $class = Plack::Util::load_class("Baz", "Foo::Bar");       # Foo::Bar::Baz
  my $class = Plack::Util::load_class("+XYZ::ZZZ", "Foo::Bar"); # XYZ::ZZZ
    

Note that this function doesn't validate (or "sanitize") the passed string, hence if you pass a user input to this function (which is an insecure thing to do in the first place) it might lead to unexpected behavior of loading files outside your @INC path. If you want a generic module loading function, you should check out CPAN modules such as Module::Runtime.

is_real_fh
  if ( Plack::Util::is_real_fh($fh) ) { }
    

returns true if a given $fh is a real file handle that has a file descriptor. It returns false if $fh is PerlIO handle that is not really related to the underlying file etc.

content_length
  my $cl = Plack::Util::content_length($body);
    

Returns the length of content from body if it can be calculated. If $body is an array ref it's a sum of length of each chunk, if $body is a real filehandle it's a remaining size of the filehandle, otherwise returns undef.

set_io_path
  Plack::Util::set_io_path($fh, "/path/to/foobar.txt");
    

Sets the (absolute) file path to $fh filehandle object, so you can call "$fh->path" on it. As a side effect $fh is blessed to an internal package but it can still be treated as a normal file handle.

This module doesn't normalize or absolutize the given path, and is intended to be used from Server or Middleware implementations. See also IO::File::WithPath.

foreach
  Plack::Util::foreach($body, $cb);
    

Iterate through $body which is an array reference or IO::Handle-like object and pass each line (which is NOT really guaranteed to be a line) to the callback function.

It internally sets the buffer length $/ to 65536 in case it reads the binary file, unless otherwise set in the caller's code.

load_psgi
  my $app = Plack::Util::load_psgi $psgi_file_or_class;
    

Load "app.psgi" file or a class name (like "MyApp::PSGI") and require the file to get PSGI application handler. If the file can't be loaded (e.g. file doesn't exist or has a perl syntax error), it will throw an exception.

Since version 1.0006, this function would not load PSGI files from include paths (@INC) unless it looks like a class name that only consists of "[A-Za-z0-9_:]". For example:

  Plack::Util::load_psgi("app.psgi");          # ./app.psgi
  Plack::Util::load_psgi("/path/to/app.psgi"); # /path/to/app.psgi
  Plack::Util::load_psgi("MyApp::PSGI");       # MyApp/PSGI.pm from @INC
    

Security: If you give this function a class name or module name that is loadable from your system, it will load the module. This could lead to a security hole:

  my $psgi = ...; # user-input: consider "Moose"
  $app = Plack::Util::load_psgi($psgi); # this would lead to 'require "Moose.pm"'!
    

Generally speaking, passing an external input to this function is considered very insecure. If you really want to do that, validate that a given file name contains dots (like "foo.psgi") and also turn it into a full path in your caller's code.

run_app
  my $res = Plack::Util::run_app $app, $env;
    

Runs the $app by wrapping errors with eval and if an error is found, logs it to "$env->{'psgi.errors'}" and returns the template 500 Error response.

header_get, header_exists, header_set, header_push, header_remove
  my $hdrs = [ 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' ];

  my $v = Plack::Util::header_get($hdrs, $key); # First found only
  my @v = Plack::Util::header_get($hdrs, $key);
  my $bool = Plack::Util::header_exists($hdrs, $key);
  Plack::Util::header_set($hdrs, $key, $val);   # overwrites existent header
  Plack::Util::header_push($hdrs, $key, $val);
  Plack::Util::header_remove($hdrs, $key);
    

Utility functions to manipulate PSGI response headers array reference. The methods that read existent header value handles header name as case insensitive.

  my $hdrs = [ 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' ];
  my $v = Plack::Util::header_get($hdrs, 'content-type'); # 'text/plain'
    
headers
  my $headers = [ 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' ];

  my $h = Plack::Util::headers($headers);
  $h->get($key);
  if ($h->exists($key)) { ... }
  $h->set($key => $val);
  $h->push($key => $val);
  $h->remove($key);
  $h->headers; # same reference as $headers
    

Given a header array reference, returns a convenient object that has an instance methods to access "header_*" functions with an OO interface. The object holds a reference to the original given $headers argument and updates the reference accordingly when called write methods like "set", "push" or "remove". It also has "headers" method that would return the same reference.

status_with_no_entity_body
  if (status_with_no_entity_body($res->[0])) { }
    

Returns true if the given status code doesn't have any Entity body in HTTP response, i.e. it's 100, 101, 204 or 304.

inline_object
  my $o = Plack::Util::inline_object(
      write => sub { $h->push_write(@_) },
      close => sub { $h->push_shutdown },
  );
  $o->write(@stuff);
  $o->close;
    

Creates an instant object that can react to methods passed in the constructor. Handy to create when you need to create an IO stream object for input or errors.

encode_html
  my $encoded_string = Plack::Util::encode_html( $string );
    

Entity encodes "<", ">", "&", """ and "'" in the input string and returns it.

response_cb
See "RESPONSE CALLBACK" in Plack::Middleware for details.
2020-11-30 perl v5.32.1

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