NAME

Moose::Cookbook::Basics::DateTime_ExtendingNonMooseParent - Extending a non-Moose parent class

VERSION

version 2.2207

SYNOPSIS

package My::DateTime;

use Moose;
use MooseX::NonMoose;
use DateTime::Calendar::Mayan;
extends qw( DateTime );

has 'mayan_date' => (
    is        => 'ro',
    isa       => 'DateTime::Calendar::Mayan',
    init_arg  => undef,
    lazy      => 1,
    builder   => '_build_mayan_date',
    clearer   => '_clear_mayan_date',
    predicate => 'has_mayan_date',
);

after 'set' => sub {
    $_[0]->_clear_mayan_date;
};

sub _build_mayan_date {
    DateTime::Calendar::Mayan->from_object( object => $_[0] );
}

DESCRIPTION

This recipe demonstrates how to use Moose to subclass a parent which is not Moose based. This recipe only works if the parent class uses a blessed hash reference for object instances. If your parent is doing something funkier, you should check out MooseX::NonMoose::InsideOut and MooseX::InsideOut.

The meat of this recipe is contained in MooseX::NonMoose, which does all the grunt work for you.

AUTHORS

• Stevan Little <stevan@cpan.org>

• Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

• Jesse Luehrs <doy@cpan.org>

• Shawn M Moore <sartak@cpan.org>

• יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

• Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

• Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@cpan.org>

• Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

• Matt S Trout <mstrout@cpan.org>

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.