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NAME

MongoDBx::Class::ParsedAttribute - A Moose role for automatically expanded and collapsed document attributes.

VERSION

version 1.01

SYNOPSIS

# in MyApp/ParsedAttribute/URI.pm
package MyApp::ParsedAttribute::URI;

use Moose;
use namespace::autoclean;
use URI;

with 'MongoDBx::Class::ParsedAttribute';

sub expand {
	my ($self, $uri_text) = @_;

	return URI->new($uri_text);
}

sub collapse {
	my ($self, $uri_obj) = @_;

	return $uri_obj->as_string;
}

1;

# in MyApp/Schema/SomeDocumentClass.pm
has 'url' => (is => 'ro', isa => 'URI', traits => ['Parsed'], parser => 'MyApp::ParsedAttribute::URI', required => 1);

DESCRIPTION

This module is a Moose role meant to be consumed by classes that automatically expand (from a MongoDB database) and collapse (to a MongoDB database) attributes of a certain type. This is similar to DBIx::Class' InflateColumn family of modules that do pretty much the same thing for the SQL world.

A class implementing this role with a name such as 'URI' (full package name MongoDBx::Class::ParsedAttribute::URI or MyApp::ParsedAttribute::URI) is expected to expand and collapse URI objects. Similarly, a class named 'NetAddr::IP' is expected to handle NetAddr::IP objects.

Currently, a DateTime parser is provided with the MongoDBx::Class distribution.

REQUIRES

Consuming classes must implement the following methods:

expand( $value )

Receives a raw attribute's value from a MongoDB document and returns the appropriate object representing it. For example, supposing the value is an epoch integer, the expand method might return a DateTime object.

collapse( $object )

Receives an object representing a parsed attribute, and returns that objects value in a form that can be saved in the database. For example, if the object is a DateTime object, this method might return the date's epoch integer.

AUTHOR

Ido Perlmuter, <ido at ido50.net>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-mongodbx-class at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=MongoDBx-Class. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc MongoDBx::Class::ParsedAttribute

You can also look for information at:

SEE ALSO

MongoDBx::Class::EmbeddedDocument.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010-2012 Ido Perlmuter.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.