NAME
MooX::Types::MooseLike - some Moosish types and a type builder
SYNOPSIS
package MyApp::Types;
use MooX::Types::MooseLike;
use base qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT_OK = ();
# Define some types
my $defs = [{
name => 'MyType',
test => sub { predicate($_[0]) },
message => sub { "$_[0] is not the type we want!" }
},
{
name => 'VarChar',
test => sub {
my ($value, $param) = @_;
length($value) <= $param;
},
message => sub { "$_[0] is too large! It should be less than or equal to $_[1]." }
}];
# Make the types available - this adds them to @EXPORT_OK automatically.
MooX::Types::MooseLike::register_types($defs, __PACKAGE__);
...
# Somewhere in code that uses the type
package MyApp::Foo;
use Moo;
use MyApp::Types qw(MyType VarChar);
has attribute => (
is => 'ro',
isa => MyType,
);
has string => (
is => 'ro',
isa => VarChar[25]
);DESCRIPTION
This module provides a possibility to build your own set of Moose-like types. These custom types can then be used to describe fields in Moo-based classes.
See MooX::Types::MooseLike::Base for a list of available base types. Its source also provides an example of how to build base types, along with both parameterizable and non-parameterizable.
FUNCTIONS
register_types
register_types( types, package, moose_namespace )
Install the given types within the package. This makes the types automatically exportable by adding them to @EXPORT_OK of the package. Types are expected to be an array ref where every type is of the following format:
{
name => 'MyType',
test => sub { check_the_value_somehow($_[0]) },
message => sub { "$_[0] is not the type we want!" },
subtype_of => 'SomeParentType', # Optional
from => 'Some::Parent::CoolTypes', # Optional
parameterizable => sub { ... }, # Optional
inflate => sub { ... }, # Optional
}A type can be declared with a reference (subtype_of) to some previously declared type. In this case the new type will inherit the behaviour of the referenced type.
The referenced type can come either from the same package or from a third party package:
MooX::Types::MooseLike::register_types([{
name => 'GreaterThan10',
subtype_of => 'Int',
from => 'MooX::Types::MooseLike::Base',
test => sub { $_[0] > 10 },
message => sub { 'not greater than 10' },
}], __PACKAGE__);
MooX::Types::MooseLike::register_types([{
name => 'Between10And20',
subtype_of => 'GreaterThan10',
from => __PACKAGE__,
test => sub { $_[0] < 20 },
message => sub { 'not an integer between 10 and 20' },
}], __PACKAGE__);
MooX::Types::MooseLike::register_types([{
name => 'Between10And30',
subtype_of => GreaterThan10(),
test => sub { $_[0] < 30 },
message => sub { 'not an integer between 10 and 30' },
}], __PACKAGE__);exception_message
exception_message( value, part_of_the_exception_string )
Helper function to be used in a type definition:
{
...
message => sub { return exception_message($_[0], 'a HashRef' },
...
}In the event of <value> mismatching the type constraints it produces the message:
"<value> is not a HashRef!"inflate_type
inflate_type( coderef )
Inflates the type to a Moose type. Requires Moose.
SEE ALSO
MooX::Types::MooseLike::Numeric - an example of building subtypes.
MooX::Types::SetObject - an example of building parameterized types.
MooX::Types::MooseLike::Email, MooX::Types::MooseLike::DateTime
Type::Tiny - another implementation of type constraints. Compatible with Moo, Moose and Mouse.
AUTHOR
mateu - Mateu X. Hunter (cpan:MATEU) <hunter@missoula.org>
CONTRIBUTORS
mst - Matt S. Trout (cpan:MSTROUT) <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>
Mithaldu - Christian Walde (cpan:MITHALDU) <walde.christian@googlemail.com>
Matt Phillips (cpan:MATTP) <mattp@cpan.org>
Arthur Axel fREW Schmidt (cpan:FREW) <frioux@gmail.com>
Toby Inkster (cpan:TOBYINK) <tobyink@cpan.org>
Graham Knop (cpan:HAARG) <haarg@cpan.org>
Dmitry Matrosov (cpan:AMIDOS) <amidos@amidos.ru>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2011-2015 the MooX::Types::MooseLike "AUTHOR" and "CONTRIBUTORS" as listed above.
LICENSE
This library is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as perl itself.