saintmike has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a way to hook into the module loading process, so that a source filter gets applied to all modules loaded afterwards?

Some thing like: 

BEGIN {
    # ... some magic
}

use Foo::Bar;  # Source filter gets applied 
               # when it's loaded.

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Or is this crazy talk?

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Re: Apply a source filter to all modules to be loaded?
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 05, 2007 at 18:44 UTC

    This is crazy talk, but that's not stopping Perl from having it, see require:

    sub my_own_loader {
    my ($self,$file) = @_;
    open my $fh, "<", "my/private/dir/$file"
        or return;
    $fh
};

BEGIN {
    unshift @INC, \&my_own_loader;   
};

use Foo::Bar;
use The::Net;

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    You might also want to look at Filter::Simple, but please realize that source filtering isn't a sane practice :)

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Re: Apply a source filter to all modules to be loaded? (yes)
by tye (Sage) on Mar 05, 2007 at 18:39 UTC
    Is there a way to hook into the module loading process

    Yes. unshift a code ref onto @INC.

    so that a source filter gets applied to all modules loaded afterwards [....] Or is this crazy talk?

    Yes, pretty much. (Some others might care what the original problem you are trying to solve is.)

    - tye        

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Re: Apply a source filter to all modules to be loaded?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 05, 2007 at 19:22 UTC
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