Hi All,
It is probably my misunderstanding, your advices are very much appreciated. I made an xml file to show the problem, the real file(s) are much more complex.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
<departments>
<department>
<name>A</name>
<articles>
<article>
<production>
<country>France</country>
<year>1989</year>
</production>
<key>001</key>
</article>
<article>
<production>
<country>Italy</country>
<year>1991</year>
</production>
<key>002</key>
</article>
<article>
<extra>
<production>
<country>Germany</country>
<year>1995</year>
</production>
<extrakey>003</extrakey>
</extra>
</article>
</articles>
</department>
<department>
<name>B</name>
<articles>
<article>
<key>004</key>
</article>
<article>
<key>005</key>
</article>
</articles>
</department>
<department>
<name>C</name>
</department>
</departments>
</root>
I parse the file with XML::Rabbit using the following library file (made for this example as well).
package House
{
use XML::Rabbit::Root;
has_xpath_object_list depts => '/root/departments/department' =>
'House::Depts';
finalize_class();
}
package House::Depts
{
use XML::Rabbit;
has_xpath_object_list articles => './articles/article[key]|./artic
+les/article/extra' => 'House::Article';
has_xpath_value name => './name';
finalize_class();
}
package House::Article
{
use XML::Rabbit;
has_xpath_value key => './key|./extrakey';
has_xpath_object prod => './production' => 'Article::Production';
finalize_class();
}
package Article::Production
{
use XML::Rabbit;
has_xpath_value country => './country';
has_xpath_value year => './year';
finalize_class();
}
1;
Now I use this library file in the following script.
#!/perl
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => qw(all);
use Encode;
use FindBin qw($Bin);
use lib $Bin;
use testlib;
use Try::Tiny;
my $path = shift or die "No source!\n";
my $string = do { local $/ = undef;
open my $in, "<", "$path" or die "$!";<$in>;};
my $xml = decode('utf8', $string);
my $h = House->new(xml => $xml);
for my $d ( @{$h->depts} )
{
for my $art ( @{$d->articles} )
{
my $prod = try {$art->prod} catch {0}; # $art->prod // 0;
my $country = $prod ? $prod->country : '';
print join("\t", $d->name, $art->key, $country), $/;
}
}
You see that not all the articles have the "production" child. The line my $prod = $art->prod//0; (commented) would produce an error: "Attribute (prod) does not pass the type constraint because: Validation failed for 'Article::Production' with value undef at reader House::Article::prod (unknown origin)..." If I use try {...} catch {...}, then I get the awaited output.
A 001 France
A 002 Italy
A 003 Germany
B 004
B 005
Now two questions.
- First, is the use of Try::Tiny here "decent" or is it just a hack and the output should be achieved without it by changing the code (probably in the library file)?
- Second, the script complains over missing xpath_object ("production") but does not seem to bother if xpath_object_list is not there: the loop over articles does not produce an error though there are not articles in the department C. Why does it make a difference?
Thank you very much in advance.
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