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-- PL loader, for loading all PL libraries, only on demand.
-- Whenever a module is implicitly accesssed, the table will have the module automatically injected.
-- (e.g. _ENV.tablex)
-- then that module is dynamically loaded. The submodules are all brought into
-- the table that is provided as the argument, or returned in a new table.
-- If a table is provided, that table's metatable is clobbered, but the values are not.
-- This module returns a single function, which is passed the environment.
-- If this is true, then return a 'shadow table' as the module
-- See the Guide

-- @module pl.import_into

return function(env)
    local mod
    if env == true then
        mod = {}
        env = {}
    end
	local env = env or {}

	local modules = {
	    utils = true,path=true,dir=true,tablex=true,stringio=true,sip=true,
	    input=true,seq=true,lexer=true,stringx=true,
	    config=true,pretty=true,data=true,func=true,text=true,
	    operator=true,lapp=true,array2d=true,
	    comprehension=true,xml=true,types=true,
	    test = true, app = true, file = true, class = true, List = true,
	    Map = true, Set = true, OrderedMap = true, MultiMap = true,
	    Date = true,
	    -- classes --
	}
	rawset(env,'utils',require 'pl.utils')

	for name,klass in pairs(env.utils.stdmt) do
	    klass.__index = function(t,key)
	        return require ('pl.'..name)[key]
	    end;
	end

	-- ensure that we play nice with libraries that also attach a metatable
	-- to the global table; always forward to a custom __index if we don't
	-- match

	local _hook,_prev_index
	local gmt = {}
	local prevenvmt = getmetatable(env)
	if prevenvmt then
	    _prev_index = prevenvmt.__index
	    if prevenvmt.__newindex then
	        gmt.__index = prevenvmt.__newindex
	    end
	end

	function gmt.hook(handler)
	    _hook = handler
	end

	function gmt.__index(t,name)
	    local found = modules[name]
	    -- either true, or the name of the module containing this class.
	    -- either way, we load the required module and make it globally available.
	    if found then
	        -- e..g pretty.dump causes pl.pretty to become available as 'pretty'
	        rawset(env,name,require('pl.'..name))
	        return env[name]
	    else
	        local res
	        if _hook then
	            res = _hook(t,name)
	            if res then return res end
	        end
	        if _prev_index then
	            return _prev_index(t,name)
	        end
	    end
	end

    if mod then
        function gmt.__newindex(t,name,value)
            mod[name] = value
            rawset(t,name,value)
        end
    end

	setmetatable(env,gmt)

	return env,mod or env
end
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