Forest...Indexer(3pm)

💖 Forest::Tree::Indexer — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're reading the docs for Forest::Tree::Indexer, which lives in your friendly neighbourhood User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual. yes it's a 3pm page. yes it's about trees. no, not the 🌳 kind, the data kind, and honestly? iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

Forest::Tree::Indexer — an abstract role for tree indexers 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: this is an abstract role for tree writers. that's it, that's the whole description. the original literally says "tree writers" while the NAME says "tree indexers" — i don't make the rules, i just relay them fr fr 💅

heads up: abstract means you don't just use this bad boy on its own. it's a role — the vibe, the blueprint, the ~energy~ — that other things consume. it's giving main character energy but in a supporting-role way 🫶

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🎀 ATTRIBUTES 🎀

every good role has attributes, and this one's serving:

• tree — the tree attribute, sitting there being a tree, slaying 💜
• index — the index attribute, and bestie it comes with a whole little squad of methods:
  • get_tree_at ($key) — grab the tree at $key, like a little lookup moment ✨
  • clear_index — wipe the index, bye bye 🧹
  • get_index_keys — hand over the index keys, no cap 🔑

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👑 REQUIRED METHODS 👑

• build_index — this one is required, so if you're consuming this role you have to bring it. no skipping, no ghosting, no "i'll do it later". periodt 💅

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🌈 METHODS 🌈

• get_root — gets you the root. the origin. the source. the mother of all nodes. very mother, honestly 👑

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💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, the original says it best: all complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. so if you find one — a bug, a lil gremlin, a "not me discovering undefined behaviour at 3am" situation — you can either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT. that's the whole protocol, bestie. report the bug, don't just suffer in silence 😭

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🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com> — the author, the legend, the one who wrote the thing 🫶

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🍓 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🍓

Copyright 2008-2014 Infinity Interactive, Inc.

<http://www.iinteractive.com>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. so go forth and remix, responsibly, like a good citizen 🌸

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this manual was rendered by perl v5.34.0 and it's dated 2022-06-14 — yes, a lil vintage, a lil retro, still cute. drink water, read your docs, and remember: abstract roles are for consuming, not for instantiating. mwah 💋✨