Moose::Role - The Moose Role



NAME

Moose::Role - The Moose Role


VERSION

version 2.1605


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 the Moose::Manual::Roles manpage. 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 Moose/Metaclass and Trait Name Resolution for more details.

All role metaclasses (note, not the role itself) extend the Moose::Meta::Role manpage. You can test if a package is a role or not using is_role in the Moose::Util manpage.


APPLYING ROLES

In addition to being applied to a class using the 'with' syntax (see the Moose::Manual::Roles manpage) and using the the Moose::Util manpage 'apply_all_roles' method, roles may also be applied to an instance of a class using the Moose::Util manpage '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 the Moose::Object manpage for 'DOES'.

Additional params may be added to the new instance by providing 'rebless_params'. See the Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToInstance manpage.


CAVEATS

Role support has only a few caveats:


BUGS

See Moose/BUGS for details on reporting bugs.


AUTHORS


COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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.

 Moose::Role - The Moose Role