NAME

Acme::Has::Tiny - tiny implementation of Moose-like "has" keyword

SYNOPSIS

package Person;

use Acme::Has::Tiny qw(new has);
use Types::Standard -types;

has name => (isa => Str);
has age  => (isa => Num);

DESCRIPTION

Acme::Has::Tiny provides a Moose-like has function. It is not particularly full-featured, providing just enough to be useful for small OO projects.

Generally speaking, I'd recommend using Moo or Moose instead, but if you want to use this then I'm fairly unlikely to hunt you down with dogs.

This module was originally written for Type::Tiny, but turned out to be just a smidgen slower than the system it was replacing, so was abandoned.

Methods

has \@attrs, %spec

has $attr, %spec

Create an attribute. This method can also be exported as a usable function.

The specification supports the following options:

is => "ro" | "rw" | "rwp"

Defaults to "ro".

required => 1

default => $coderef

Defaults are always eager (not lazy).

builder => $coderef | $method_name | 1

Builders are always lazy.

predicate => $method_name | 1

isa => $type

Type constraint (use Types::Standard or another Type::Library-based type constraint library).

create_constructor $method_name, %options

If you want a constructor, then you could call this after defining your attributes. (Or you could just import new from this module.)

package Person;

use Acme::Has::Tiny qw(has);
use Types::Standard -types;

has name => (isa => Str);
has age  => (isa => Num);

Acme::Has::Tiny->create_constructor("new");
Acme::Has::Tiny->create_constructor(
   "new_from_arrayref",
   buildargs => sub {
      my ($class, $aref) = @_;
      return { name => $aref->[0], age => $aref->[1] };
   },
);

Currently supported options:

buildargs => $coderef | $method_name

build => $coderef | $method_name

class => $class_name

Package to build a constructor for; if omitted, uses the caller.

replace => $bool

Allow create_constructor to overwrite an existing method.

There's no law that says you have to use create_constructor. You can write your own constructor if you like. In which case, you might like to make use of...

assert_valid($class, \%params)

Check that a hash of parameters is valid according to type constraints and required attributes of $class and any classes it inherits from.

Returns the hashref or dies.

sub new {
   my ($class, %params) = @_;
   ...; # other stuff here
   my $self = bless(
      Acme::Has::Tiny->assert_valid($class, \%params),
      $class,
   );
   ...; # other stuff here
   return $self;
}

Constants

CAN_HAZ_XS

Whether Class::XSAccessor can be used.

CAVEATS

Inheriting attributes from parent classes is not super well-tested.

BUGS

Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Acme-Type-Tiny.

SEE ALSO

Moo, Moose, Mouse.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.