use/require handler?

[Patrick LeBoutillier]

Hi all,

Is there anyway to be notified when the use/require of a module fails?

Basically I would like to setup a sub that gets called whenever a
use/require call doesn't find what it is looking for. Sort of an
AUTOLOAD but for use/require.

Any ideas?

Patrick LeBoutillier

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Is there anyway to be notified when the use/require of a module
fails?

Basically I would like to setup a sub that gets called whenever a
use/require call doesn't find what it is looking for. Sort of an
AUTOLOAD but for use/require.

Any ideas?

eval "use Some::Module";
mysub() if $@;

 

[Patrick LeBoutillier]

eval "use Some::Module";
mysub() if $@;

That's good, but I would like this to happen transparently behind the scenes, i.e.:

BEGIN {
# Hook up the sub "no_such_module" to be called when use/require
# fails
}


use IO::File ; # nothing happens
use File::Find ; # nothing happens
use Absent::Module # "no_such_module" called with arg "Absent::Module" ;

sub no_such_module {
my $module = shift ;

warn("Module $module not found.") ;
}

 

[Patrick LeBoutillier]

eval "use Some::Module";
mysub() if $@;

Never mind. I found it here:

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/require.html

It's new in perl 5.8.0:

push @INC, \&my_sub;
sub my_sub {
my ($coderef, $filename) = @_; # $coderef is \&my_sub
...
}

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Never mind. I found it here:

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/require.html

It's new in perl 5.8.0:

push @INC, \&my_sub;
sub my_sub {
my ($coderef, $filename) = @_; # $coderef is \&my_sub
...
}

Hmm.. Interesting possibility that I was not aware of. Thanks for the
tip.