Zonema...NSArray(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Zonemaster::NSArray — a class that implements arrays which lazily look up name server addresses from their names. yes bestie, lazy in the good way 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tie @ary, 'Zonemaster::NSArray', @ns_names

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one tie and you're iconic 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so listen. This class is what powers the "glue" and "ns" attributes over in the Zonemaster::Zone class. You seed it with a list of names, and those names get expanded into full-blown Zonemaster::Nameserver objects on demand — not all at once, not right now, only when someone actually asks. that's the lazy-loading serve 🎀

⚠️ but bestie, be careful with Perl functions that act on whole arrays — especially foreach. They will usually force the entire array to expand, which completely negates the whole point of the lazy-loading. it's giving "why did we even bother" 😭 so like, don't do that.

👑 METHODS 👑

ngl these are all just methods implementing the Perl tie interface. They have no independent use — they exist for the tie magic and nothing else. still gonna list every single one tho because we respect the craft 💖

• TIEARRAY
• STORE
• STORESIZE
• FETCH
• FETCHSIZE
• EXISTS
• DELETE
• CLEAR
• PUSH
• UNSHIFT
• POP
• SHIFT
• SPLICE
• UNTIE

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Calle Dybedahl, <calle at init.se> — thank you for your service king 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie. this beauty shipped as part of perl v5.32.0 and got its timestamp on 2021-01-06, filed under Zonema...NSArray(3pm) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation. slay, read it again sometime 💜✨