NAME¶

Lintian::Storage::PerMember - store multi-level hashes on disk

SYNOPSIS¶

    use Lintian::Storage::PerMember;
    my $storage = Lintian::Storage::PerMember->create('elf');
    my $name = 'usr/bin/true';
    $storage->{$name} = { NEEDED => ['libc.so.6'] };
    my $info = $storage->{$name};

DESCRIPTION¶

Lintian::Storage::PerMember provides an interface to store data on disk to preserve memory. Each hash key corresponds to a separate Storable file in a temporary directory, so values are only in memory while they are being read or written.

CLASS METHODS¶

create

Creates a temporary directory and returns a hash tied to it. Each assigned key is stored in its own file there.

INSTANCE METHODS¶

TIEHASH

STORE

FETCH

EXISTS

DELETE

CLEAR

FIRSTKEY

NEXTKEY

DESTROY

Removes the temporary directory when the tied hash goes out of scope.

_file

Returns the file associated with the given key.

SEE ALSO¶

lintian(1)