MooseX::LvalueAttribute - lvalue attributes for Moose
package MyThing; use Moose; use MooseX::LvalueAttribute; has name => ( traits => ['Lvalue'], is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1, ); has size => ( traits => ['Lvalue'], is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', default => 0, ); package main; my $thing = MyThing->new(name => 'Foo'); $thing->name = "Bar"; print $thing->name; # Bar $thing->size++; print $thing->size; # 1
This package provides a Moose attribute trait that provides Lvalue accessors. Which means that instead of writing:
$thing->name("Foo");
You can use the more natural looking:
$thing->name = "Foo";
For details of Lvalue implementation in Perl, please see: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub.html#Lvalue-subroutines
Type constraints and coercions still work for lvalue attributes. Triggers still fire. Everything should just work. (Unless it doesn't.)
You can optionally import a constants called lvalue that expands to the full name of the attribute trait, allowing:
lvalue
use MooseX::LvalueAttribute 'lvalue'; has name => ( traits => [ lvalue ], is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1, );
This may allow Moose to compile your attribute very, very, slightly faster, but the main advantage is aesthetic.
Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=MooseX-LvalueAttribute.
MooX::LvalueAttribute, Object::Tiny::Lvalue.
Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.
Based on work by Christopher Brown, <cbrown at opendatagroup.com>
<cbrown at opendatagroup.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Toby Inkster; 2008 by Christopher Brown.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
To install Moose::Meta::Attribute::Custom::Trait::Lvalue, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Moose::Meta::Attribute::Custom::Trait::Lvalue
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Moose::Meta::Attribute::Custom::Trait::Lvalue
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.