NAME

Role::Tiny - Roles. Like a nouvelle cuisine portion size slice of Moose.

SYNOPSIS

package Some::Role;

use Role::Tiny;

sub foo { ... }

sub bar { ... }

around baz => sub { ... }

1;

else where

package Some::Class;

use Role::Tiny::With;

# bar gets imported, but not foo
with 'Some::Role';

sub foo { ... }

# baz is wrapped in the around modifier by Class::Method::Modifiers
sub baz { ... }

1;

If you wanted attributes as well, look at Moo::Role.

DESCRIPTION

Role::Tiny is a minimalist role composition tool.

ROLE COMPOSITION

Role composition can be thought of as much more clever and meaningful multiple inheritance. The basics of this implementation of roles is:

• If a method is already defined on a class, that method will not be composed in from the role.

• If a method that the role "requires" to be implemented is not implemented, role application will fail loudly.

Unlike Class::C3, where the last class inherited from "wins," role composition is the other way around, where the class wins. If multiple roles are applied in a single call (single with statement), then if any of their provided methods clash, an exception is raised unless the class provides a method since this conflict indicates a potential problem.

IMPORTED SUBROUTINES

requires

requires qw(foo bar);

Declares a list of methods that must be defined to compose role.

with

with 'Some::Role1';

with 'Some::Role1', 'Some::Role2';

Composes another role into the current role (or class via Role::Tiny::With).

If you have conflicts and want to resolve them in favour of Some::Role1 you can instead write:

with 'Some::Role1';
with 'Some::Role2';

If you have conflicts and want to resolve different conflicts in favour of different roles, please refactor your codebase.

before

before foo => sub { ... };

See "before method(s) => sub { ... }" in Class::Method::Modifiers for full documentation.

Note that since you are not required to use method modifiers, Class::Method::Modifiers is lazily loaded and we do not declare it as a dependency. If your Role::Tiny role uses modifiers you must depend on both Class::Method::Modifiers and Role::Tiny.

around

around foo => sub { ... };

See "around method(s) => sub { ... }" in Class::Method::Modifiers for full documentation.

Note that since you are not required to use method modifiers, Class::Method::Modifiers is lazily loaded and we do not declare it as a dependency. If your Role::Tiny role uses modifiers you must depend on both Class::Method::Modifiers and Role::Tiny.

after

after foo => sub { ... };

See "after method(s) => sub { ... }" in Class::Method::Modifiers for full documentation.

Note that since you are not required to use method modifiers, Class::Method::Modifiers is lazily loaded and we do not declare it as a dependency. If your Role::Tiny role uses modifiers you must depend on both Class::Method::Modifiers and Role::Tiny.

SUBROUTINES

does_role

if (Role::Tiny::does_role($foo, 'Some::Role')) {
  ...
}

Returns true if class has been composed with role.

This subroutine is also installed as ->does on any class a Role::Tiny is composed into unless that class already has an ->does method, so

if ($foo->does('Some::Role')) {
  ...
}

will work for classes but to test a role, one must use ::does_role directly.

Additionally, Role::Tiny will override the standard Perl DOES method for your class. However, if any class in your class' inheritance heirarchy provides DOES, then Role::Tiny will not override it.

METHODS

apply_roles_to_package

Role::Tiny->apply_roles_to_package(
  'Some::Package', 'Some::Role', 'Some::Other::Role'
);

Composes role with package. See also Role::Tiny::With.

apply_roles_to_object

Role::Tiny->apply_roles_to_object($foo, qw(Some::Role1 Some::Role2));

Composes roles in order into object directly. Object is reblessed into the resulting class.

create_class_with_roles

Role::Tiny->create_class_with_roles('Some::Base', qw(Some::Role1 Some::Role2));

Creates a new class based on base, with the roles composed into it in order. New class is returned.

SEE ALSO

Role::Tiny is the attribute-less subset of Moo::Role; Moo::Role is a meta-protocol-less subset of the king of role systems, Moose::Role.

If you don't want method modifiers and do want to be forcibly restricted to a single role application per class, Ovid's Role::Basic exists. But Stevan Little (the Moose author) and I don't find the additional restrictions to be amazingly helpful in most cases; Role::Basic's choices are more a guide to what you should prefer doing, to our mind, rather than something that needs to be enforced.

AUTHOR

mst - Matt S. Trout (cpan:MSTROUT) <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>

CONTRIBUTORS

dg - David Leadbeater (cpan:DGL) <dgl@dgl.cx>

frew - Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt (cpan:FREW) <frioux@gmail.com>

hobbs - Andrew Rodland (cpan:ARODLAND) <arodland@cpan.org>

jnap - John Napiorkowski (cpan:JJNAPIORK) <jjn1056@yahoo.com>

ribasushi - Peter Rabbitson (cpan:RIBASUSHI) <ribasushi@cpan.org>

chip - Chip Salzenberg (cpan:CHIPS) <chip@pobox.com>

ajgb - Alex J. G. Burzyński (cpan:AJGB) <ajgb@cpan.org>

doy - Jesse Luehrs (cpan:DOY) <doy at tozt dot net>

perigrin - Chris Prather (cpan:PERIGRIN) <chris@prather.org>

Mithaldu - Christian Walde (cpan:MITHALDU) <walde.christian@googlemail.com>

ilmari - Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (cpan:ILMARI) <ilmari@ilmari.org>

tobyink - Toby Inkster (cpan:TOBYINK) <tobyink@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2010-2012 the Role::Tiny "AUTHOR" and "CONTRIBUTORS" as listed above.

LICENSE

This library is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as perl itself.

cpanm Role::Tiny

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Role::Tiny