[erlang-questions] compile transforms which change the module name

[Joe Armstrong]

Works a charm - thanks

I am making a very nice transform.

Hint: take all files in an application call these {x1.erl, x2.erl ...}

1) Make a name map

map() -> [{"x1", m27313afsadfddsf, "joe", 213517657153675}
                ...

This means that the md5 checksum of x1.erl is m273 .... and 2135... is
the MD5 sum signed
with joe's public key

2) transform all code in x1.erl x2.erl replacing the module names x1,
x2 ... etc.
    with the MD5 sums so x1:abc(...) becomes m273...:abc( ...)

3) replace apply(M,F,A) with newapply(map(),M, F, A)

result - a) no name space collisions
            b) exact version control
            c) safety (if you can't guess the MD5 sum :-)

It's kind of like adding a big "where" clause round a module

    -module(foo).

    a() -> lists:reverse(...)

    WHERE
       foo = m1283abcd ...
       lists = m34aefg ...

ie all modules names are converted to the MD5 sums of the original sources.

I think this might solve a lot of problems with safety, versioning,
testing, namespaces etc.

(safe erlang can be made by replacing calls to dangerous mods like file etc.
with safe_file ... etc.)

/Joe



On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ulf
Wiger<ulf.wiger@REDACTED> wrote:
> Peter Andersson wrote:
>>
>> The  'no_error_module_mismatch' option should do the trick:
>>
>> -module(foo).
>> -compile({parse_transform,rename}).
>> ...
>>
>> 1> compile:file(foo, [no_error_module_mismatch]).
>> {ok,xyz}
>
> ...except it still produces a file called foo.beam,
> so c(foo, [no_error_module_mismatch]) still won't work.
>
> It seems as if a wrapper is needed:
>
> compile(F, Opts) ->
>  case compile:file(F, [{parse_transform,rename},binary,
>                        no_error_module_mismatch|Opts]) of
>    {ok, Mod, Bin} ->
>      Dir = filename:dirname(F),
>      OutF = filename:join(Dir, atom_to_list(Mod) ++ ".beam"),
>      ok = file:write_file(OutF, Bin),
>      {ok, Mod};
>    Error ->
>      Error
>  end.
>
> (Above code not compiled - let alone tested.)
>
> BR,
> Ulf W
>
>
>>  /Peppe
>>
>>
>> Joe Armstrong wrote:
>>>
>>> If I change the module name in a compile transform I get an error.
>>>
>>> If there a work-around for this?
>>>
>>> I really want to change the module name so that when I compile foo.erl it
>>> produces a new name xyz.beam containing code for the module xyz.
>>>
>>> /Joe
>>>
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