Alien:...igData(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData — it's literally the configuration holder for Alien::Tidyp, no cap ✨

okay so before we even start: this page comes from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, bestie — that's the manual name, we're in Perl territory now 🐪💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here's the whole vibe of how you'd actually use it:

use Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData;
$value = Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData->config('foo');
$value = Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData->feature('bar');

@names = Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData->config_names;
@names = Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData->feature_names;

Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData->set_config(foo => $new_value);
Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData->set_feature(bar => $new_value);
Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData->write;  # Save changes

that last line is your save button, don't forget it 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData is the module that holds all the config data for the Alien::Tidyp module — like it's the lil vault 🏦✨ It also gives you a programmatic interface for getting or setting that config data, which is lowkey iconic.

⚠️ but bestie hear me — to actually make changes, you have to have write access to the Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData module. and you should genuinely attempt to understand the repercussions of your actions before you go editing stuff 🙈 like, know what you're doing, fr fr.

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👑 METHODS 👑

config($name)

Hand it a string and it gives you back the value of the configuration item with that name 💫 If no such item exists? You get undef. That's it, that's the whole deal.

feature($name)

Same energy, different closet: give it a string, it returns the value of the feature with that name 🌸 No such feature? undef, bestie, sorry 😭

set_config($name, $value)

Sets the configuration item with the given name to the given value. And the value can be any Perl scalar that'll serialize correctly using Data::Dumper — which means references, objects (usually), and complex data structures all get to come to the party 🎉💜

🫶 but it probably does not include transient stuff like filehandles or sockets. those are not invited, ngl.

set_feature($name, $value)

Sets the feature with the given name to the given boolean value — the value gets converted to 0 or 1 automatically. so clean, so simple, slay ✨

config_names()

Returns a list of all the names of config items currently defined in Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData — or, in scalar context, the number of items. two modes, one icon 💅

feature_names()

Same but for features: returns a list of all the names of features currently defined in Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData — or, in scalar context, the number of features 🔥

auto_feature_names()

Returns a list of all the names of features whose availability is dynamically determined — or, in scalar context, the number of such features 🌀

👀 small caveat: it does not include such features that have later been set to a fixed value. respect the boundary.

write()

Commits any changes from set_config() and set_feature() to disk 💾✨ Requires write access to the Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData module. no write access, no saving, periodt.

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData was automatically created using Module::Build 🤖 Module::Build was written by Ken Williams, but he holds no authorship claim or copyright claim to the contents of Alien::Tidyp::ConfigData. so like, he made the machine, not this particular smoothie 🍓

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and that's the page, bestie 🫶💖 it's giving perl v5.42.0, dated 2015-02-03, and yes the page header up top really is Alien:...igData(3pm) — we don't know her full name either, we just vibe with it 💀🎀