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Moose::Role - The Moose Role
version 2.2012
package Eq;
use Moose::Role; # automatically turns on strict and warnings
requires 'equal';
sub no_equal {
my ($self, $other) = @_;
!$self->equal($other);
}
# ... then in your classes
package Currency;
use Moose; # automatically turns on strict and warnings
with 'Eq';
sub equal {
my ($self, $other) = @_;
$self->as_float == $other->as_float;
}
# ... and also
package Comparator;
use Moose;
has compare_to => (
is => 'ro',
does => 'Eq',
handles => 'Eq',
);
# ... which allows
my $currency1 = Currency->new(...);
my $currency2 = Currency->new(...);
Comparator->new(compare_to => $currency1)->equal($currency2);
The concept of roles is documented in Moose::Manual::Roles. This document serves as API documentation.
Moose::Role currently supports all of the functions that Moose exports, but differs slightly in how some items are handled (see "CAVEATS" below for details).
Moose::Role also offers two role-specific keyword exports:
Roles can require that certain methods are implemented by any class which "does" the role.
Note that attribute accessors also count as methods for the purposes of satisfying the requirements of a role.
Roles can "exclude" other roles, in effect saying "I can never be combined with these @role_names". This is a feature which should not be used lightly.
Moose::Role offers a way to remove the keywords it exports, through the "unimport" method. You simply have to say "no Moose::Role" at the bottom of your code for this to work.
When you use Moose::Role, you can specify traits which will be applied to your role metaclass:
use Moose::Role -traits => 'My::Trait';
This is very similar to the attribute traits feature. When you do this, your class's "meta" object will have the specified traits applied to it. See "Metaclass and Trait Name Resolution" in Moose for more details.
All role metaclasses (note, not the role itself) extend Moose::Meta::Role. You can test if a package is a role or not using "is_role" in Moose::Util.
In addition to being applied to a class using the 'with' syntax (see Moose::Manual::Roles) and using the Moose::Util 'apply_all_roles' method, roles may also be applied to an instance of a class using Moose::Util 'apply_all_roles' or the role's metaclass:
MyApp::Test::SomeRole->meta->apply( $instance );
Doing this creates a new, mutable, anonymous subclass, applies the role to that, and reblesses. In a debugger, for example, you will see class names of the form " Moose::Meta::Class::__ANON__::SERIAL::6 ", which means that doing a 'ref' on your instance may not return what you expect. See Moose::Object for 'DOES'.
Additional params may be added to the new instance by providing 'rebless_params'. See Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToInstance.
Role support has only a few caveats:
In most cases, this will be a non-issue; however, it is something to keep in mind when using method modifiers in a role. You should never assume any ordering.
See "BUGS" in Moose for details on reporting bugs.
This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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