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MooseX::Types::LoadableClass(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation MooseX::Types::LoadableClass(3pm)

NAME

MooseX::Types::LoadableClass - ClassName type constraint with coercion to load the class.

VERSION

version 0.014

SYNOPSIS

    package MyClass;
    use Moose;
    use MooseX::Types::LoadableClass qw/ LoadableClass /;

    has foobar_class => (
        is => 'ro',
        required => 1,
        isa => LoadableClass,
    );

    MyClass->new(foobar_class => 'FooBar'); # FooBar.pm is loaded or an
                                            # exception is thrown.

DESCRIPTION

    use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;

    my $tc = subtype as ClassName;
    coerce $tc, from Str, via { Class::Load::load_class($_); $_ };

I've written those three lines of code quite a lot of times, in quite a lot of places.

Now I don't have to.

TYPES EXPORTED

"LoadableClass"

A normal class / package.

"LoadableRole"

Like "LoadableClass", except the loaded package must be a Moose::Role.

AUTHOR

Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>

CONTRIBUTORS

  • Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
  • Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaaker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
  • Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
  • XXXXXX XXXXXXX <sromanov@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 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.

2015-08-16 perl v5.20.2