Moose::Role - The Moose Role

  1. VERSION
  2. SYNOPSIS
  3. DESCRIPTION
  4. EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
    1. requires (@method_names)
    2. excludes (@role_names)
    3. no Moose::Role
  5. METACLASS
  6. APPLYING ROLES
  7. CAVEATS
  8. BUGS
  9. AUTHORS
  10. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

VERSION

version 2.2207

SYNOPSIS

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);

DESCRIPTION

The concept of roles is documented in Moose::Manual::Roles. This document serves as API documentation.

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

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:

requires (@method_names)

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.

excludes (@role_names)

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.

no Moose::Role

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.

METACLASS

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.

APPLYING ROLES

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.

CAVEATS

Role support has only a few caveats:

BUGS

See "BUGS" in Moose for details on reporting bugs.

AUTHORS

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.