MooseX::Declare(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation MooseX::Declare(3)NAME
MooseX::Declare - Declarative syntax for Moose
SYNOPSIS
use MooseX::Declare;
class BankAccount {
has 'balance' => ( isa => 'Num', is => 'rw', default => 0 );
method deposit (Num $amount) {
$self->balance( $self->balance + $amount );
}
method withdraw (Num $amount) {
my $current_balance = $self->balance();
( $current_balance >= $amount )
|| confess "Account overdrawn";
$self->balance( $current_balance - $amount );
}
}
class CheckingAccount extends BankAccount {
has 'overdraft_account' => ( isa => 'BankAccount', is => 'rw' );
before withdraw (Num $amount) {
my $overdraft_amount = $amount - $self->balance();
if ( $self->overdraft_account && $overdraft_amount > 0 ) {
$self->overdraft_account->withdraw($overdraft_amount);
$self->deposit($overdraft_amount);
}
}
}
DESCRIPTION
This module provides syntactic sugar for Moose, the postmodern object
system for Perl 5. When used, it sets up the "class" and "role"
keywords.
KEYWORDS
class
class Foo { ... }
my $anon_class = class { ... };
Declares a new class. The class can be either named or anonymous,
depending on whether or not a classname is given. Within the class
definition Moose and MooseX::Method::Signatures are set up
automatically in addition to the other keywords described in this
document. At the end of the definition the class will be made
immutable. namespace::autoclean is injected to clean up Moose and other
imports for you.
Because of the way the options are parsed, you cannot have a class
named "is", "with" or "extends".
It's possible to specify options for classes:
extends
class Foo extends Bar { ... }
Sets a superclass for the class being declared.
with
class Foo with Role { ... }
class Foo with Role1 with Role2 { ... }
class Foo with (Role1, Role2) { ... }
Applies a role or roles to the class being declared.
is mutable
class Foo is mutable { ... }
Causes the class not to be made immutable after its definition.
Options can also be provided for anonymous classes using the same
syntax:
my $meta_class = class with Role;
role
role Foo { ... }
my $anon_role = role { ... };
Declares a new role. The role can be either named or anonymous,
depending on whether or not a name is given. Within the role definition
Moose::Role and MooseX::Method::Signatures are set up automatically in
addition to the other keywords described in this document. Again,
namespace::autoclean is injected to clean up Moose::Role and other
imports for you.
It's possible to specify options for roles:
with
role Foo with Bar { ... }
Applies a role to the role being declared.
before / after / around / override / augment
before foo ($x, $y, $z) { ... }
after bar ($x, $y, $z) { ... }
around baz ($x, $y, $z) { ... }
override moo ($x, $y, $z) { ... }
augment kuh ($x, $y, $z) { ... }
Add a method modifier. Those work like documented in Moose, except for
the slightly nicer syntax and the method signatures, which work like
documented in MooseX::Method::Signatures.
For the "around" modifier an additional argument called $orig is
automatically set up as the invocant for the method.
clean
Sometimes you don't want the automatic cleaning the "class" and "role"
keywords provide using namespace::autoclean. In those cases you can
specify the "dirty" trait for your class or role:
use MooseX::Declare;
class Foo is dirty { ... }
This will prevent cleaning of your namespace, except for the keywords
imported from "Moose" or "Moose::Role". Additionally, a "clean" keyword
is provided, which allows you to explicitly clean all functions that
were defined prior to calling "clean". Here's an example:
use MooseX::Declare;
class Foo is dirty {
sub helper_function { ... }
clean;
method foo ($stuff) { ...; return helper_function($stuff); }
}
With that, the helper function won't be available as a method to a user
of your class, but you're still able to use it inside your class.
NOTE ON IMPORTS
When creating a class with MooseX::Declare like:
use MooseX::Declare;
class Foo { ... }
What actually happens is something like this:
{
package Foo;
use Moose;
use namespace::autoclean;
...
__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
}
So if you declare imports outside the class, the symbols get imported
into the "main::" namespace, not the class' namespace. The symbols then
cannot be called from within the class:
use MooseX::Declare;
use Data::Dump qw/dump/;
class Foo {
method dump($value) { return dump($value) } # Data::Dump::dump IS NOT in Foo::
method pp($value) { $self->dump($value) } # an alias for our dump method
}
To solve this, only import MooseX::Declare outside the class definition
(because you have to). Make all other imports inside the class
definition.
use MooseX::Declare;
class Foo {
use Data::Dump qw/dump/;
method dump($value) { return dump($value) } # Data::Dump::dump IS in Foo::
method pp($value) { $self->dump($value) } # an alias for our dump method
}
Foo->new->dump($some_value);
Foo->new->pp($some_value);
NOTE that the import "Data::Dump::dump()" and the method "Foo::dump()",
although having the same name, do not conflict with each other, because
the imported "dump" function will be cleaned during compile time, so
only the method remains there at run time. If you want to do more
esoteric things with imports, have a look at the "clean" keyword and
the "dirty" trait.
SEE ALSO
· Moose
· Moose::Role
· MooseX::Method::Signatures
· namespace::autoclean
· vim syntax: <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2526>
· emacs syntax: http://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode
<http://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode>
· Geany syntax + notes:
http://www.cattlegrid.info/blog/2009/09/moosex-declare-geany-syntax.html
<http://www.cattlegrid.info/blog/2009/09/moosex-declare-geany-
syntax.html>
AUTHORS
· Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
· Ash Berlin <ash@cpan.org>
· Chas. J. Owens IV <chas.owens@gmail.com>
· Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>
· Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
· Devin Austin <dhoss@cpan.org>
· Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@cpan.org>
· Justin Hunter <justin.d.hunter@gmail.com>
· Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
· Michele Beltrame <arthas@cpan.org>
· Nelo Onyiah <nelo.onyiah@gmail.com>
· nperez <nperez@cpan.org>
· Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk>
· Rafael Kitover <rkitover@io.com>
· Robert 'phaylon' Sedlacek <rs@474.at>
· Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>
· Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>
· Yanick Champoux <yanick@babyl.dyndns.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Florian Ragwitz.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
perl v5.12.5 2011-08-23 MooseX::Declare(3)
