Hi list,
Can anyone recommend a CPAN or Perl core module that implements a container
class / collection / managed list or somethign like that. I've found a
couple that I'm about to study now:
Tie::Collection
Class::Composite
Class::Container
Is there such a module that anyone has found especially useful or suitable?
Basically my program has several data structures that, over time, are
beginning to want similar functions. Gathering all the desired functions
and thinking ahead a little (just to try something different) yields the
following list:
new / destroy
add, delete, change
exists
get
keys
num/length
asList
makeKey
merge
predecessor, successor
rename / rekey
sequentialFirst / sequentialLast
sequentialNext / sequentialPrev
orderBy / sortBy / sortRoutine
reindexMode: all-at-once vs as-needed
keyingMode: unique (could be implemented as hash) vs set (duplicate keys
allowed)
fromFile
toFile
tieFile
I have in mind that all this occurs in memory (speed is important, with
portions of my code nested 8 loops deep and executing a couple million
times). Still, my function list looks an awful lot like database
functionality, and a good solution may be an 'in-memory' form of DBM/DBI
(which is on my list to look at) or something like that. Regardless, a
good class design would hide the 'in-memory/as-file' implementation detail
behind the class's interface, so that all that is transparent to a user of
the class.
Any help very much appreciated.
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