MooseX::Object::Pluggable - Make your classes pluggable
version 0.0014
package MyApp; use Moose; with 'MooseX::Object::Pluggable'; ... package MyApp::Plugin::Pretty; use Moose::Role; sub pretty{ print "I am pretty" } 1; # use MyApp; my $app = MyApp->new; $app->load_plugin('Pretty'); $app->pretty;
This module is meant to be loaded as a role from Moose-based classes. It will add five methods and four attributes to assist you with the loading and handling of plugins and extensions for plugins. I understand that this may pollute your namespace, however I took great care in using the least ambiguous names possible.
Plugins and extensions are just Roles by a fancy name. They are loaded at runtime on demand and are instance, not class based. This means that if you have more than one instance of a class they can all have different plugins loaded. This is a feature.
Plugin methods are allowed to around, before, after their consuming classes, so it is important to watch for load order as plugins can and will overload each other. You may also add attributes through has.
around
before
after
has
Please note that when you load at runtime you lose the ability to wrap BUILD and roles using has will not go through compile time checks like required and default.
BUILD
required
default
Even though override will work, I STRONGLY discourage its use and a warning will be thrown if you try to use it. This is closely linked to the way multiple roles being applied is handled and is not likely to change. override behavior is closely linked to inheritance and thus will likely not work as you expect it in multiple inheritance situations. Point being, save yourself the headache.
override
When roles are applied at runtime an anonymous class will wrap your class and $self->blessed, ref $self and $self->meta->name will no longer return the name of your object; they will instead return the name of the anonymous class created at runtime. See _original_class_name.
$self->blessed
ref $self
$self->meta->name
_original_class_name
For a simple example see the tests included in this distribution.
String. The prefix to use for plugin names provided. MyApp::Plugin is sensible.
MyApp::Plugin
An ArrayRef accessor that automatically dereferences into array on a read call. By default it will be filled with the class name and its precedents. It is used to determine which directories to look for plugins as well as which plugins take precedence upon namespace collisions. This allows you to subclass a pluggable class and still use its plugins while using yours first if they are available.
An automatically built instance of Module::Pluggable::Object used to locate available plugins.
Because of the way roles apply, $self->blessed, ref $self and $self->meta->name will no longer return what you expect. Instead, upon instantiation, the name of the class instantiated will be stored in this attribute if you need to access the name the class held before any runtime roles were applied.
Load the appropriate role for $plugin.
$plugin
There's nothing stopping you from using these, but if you are using them for anything that's not really complicated you are probably doing something wrong.
Creates a role name from a plugin name. If the plugin name is prepended with a + it will be treated as a full name returned as is. Otherwise a string consisting of $plugin prepended with the _plugin_ns and the first valid value from _plugin_app_ns will be returned. Example
+
_plugin_ns
_plugin_app_ns
#assuming appname MyApp and C<_plugin_ns> 'Plugin' $self->_role_from_plugin("MyPlugin"); # MyApp::Plugin::MyPlugin
Require $role if it is not already loaded and apply it. This is the meat of this module.
$role
Automatically builds the _plugin_app_ns attribute with the classes in the class precedence list that are not part of Moose.
Automatically creates a Module::Pluggable::Object instance with the correct search_path.
Keep tests happy. See Moose
Moose, Moose::Role, Class::Inspector
Holler?
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-MooseX-Object-Pluggable at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=MooseX-Object-Pluggable. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-MooseX-Object-Pluggable at rt.cpan.org
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc MooseX-Object-Pluggable
You can also look for information at:
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/MooseX-Object-Pluggable
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/MooseX-Object-Pluggable
RT: CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=MooseX-Object-Pluggable
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Object-Pluggable
Guillermo Roditi <groditi@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Guillermo Roditi <groditi@cpan.org>.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
Shawn M Moore <sartak@gmail.com>
Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
Robert Boone <robo4288@gmail.com>
David Steinbrunner <dsteinbrunner@pobox.com>
Todd Hepler <thepler@employees.org>
To install MooseX::Object::Pluggable, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm MooseX::Object::Pluggable
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install MooseX::Object::Pluggable
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.