NAME

Mew - Moo with sugar on top

SYNOPSIS

#
# This:
#
use Mew;

has  _foo  => PositiveNum;
has -_bar  => Bool;  # note the minus: it means attribute is not `required`
has  type  => ( Str, default => 'html', chained => 1); # fluent interface
has  _cust => ( is => 'ro', isa => sub{ 42 } );        # standard Moo `has`
has [qw/_ar1  -_ar2/] => Str;                          # Multiple args

#
# Is the same as:
#
use strictures 2;
use Types::Standard qw/:all/;
use Types::Common::Numeric qw/:all/;
use Moo;
use MooX::ChainedAttributes;
use namespace::clean;

has _foo  => (
    init_arg => 'foo',
    is       => 'ro'
    isa      => PositiveNum,
    required => 1,
);

has _bar  => (
    init_arg => 'bar',
    is       => 'ro'
    isa      => Bool,
);

has type  => (
    chained  => 1,
    is       => 'rw'
    isa      => Str,
    default  => 'html',
);

has _cust => (
    is  => 'ro',
    isa => sub{ 42 },
);

has _ar1  => (
    init_arg => 'ar1',
    is       => 'ro'
    isa      => Str,
    required => 1,
);

has ar2  => (
    init_arg => 'ar2',
    is       => 'ro'
    isa      => Str,
);

DESCRIPTION

This module is just like regular Moo, except it also imports strictures and namespace::clean, along with a couple of standard types modules. In addition, it sweetens the Moo's has subroutine to allow for more concise attribute declarations.

READ FIRST

Virtually all of the functionality is described in Moo.

IMPORTED MODULES

use Mew;

Automatically imports the following modules: Moo, strictures, Types::Standard, Types::Common::Numeric, MooX::ChainedAttributes, and namespace::clean. NOTE: in particular the last one. It'll scrub your namespace, thus if you're using things like experimental, you should declare them after you use Mew.

has SUGAR

Call it like if it were Moo

has _cust => ( is => 'ro' );

First, you can call has just like you'd call "has" in Moo and it'll work exactly as it used to. The sugar won't be enabled in that case.

Specify isa type to get sugar

has _cust => Str;
has _cust => ( Str, default => "foo" ); # Note: can't use "=>" after Str
has [qw/_z1  -z2/] => Str;

To get the sugar, you need to specify one of the imported types from either Types::Standard or Types::Common::Numeric as the second argument. Once that is done, Mew will add some default settings, which are:

1) Set `isa` to the type you gave
2) Set `is` to 'ro' (or 'rw', if `chained` is set)
3) Set `require` to 1
4) Set `init_arg` to the name of the attribute, removing
    the leading underscore, if it's present

Thus, has _cust => Str; is equivalent to

use Types::Standard qw/Str/;
has _cust => (
    init_arg => 'cust',
    is       => 'ro'
    isa      => Str,
    required => 1,
);

You can specify same settings for multiple attributes by providing their names in an arrayref:

has [qw/_z1  -z2/] => Str;

has _cust => Str => ( default => "BROKEN" ); # WRONG!!!!
has _cust => Str, ( default => "WORKS" ); # Correct!
has _cust => ( Str, default => "WORKS" ); # This is fine too

Method chaining

package Foo;
use Mew;
has cost   => ( PostiveNum, chained => 1 );
has weight => ( PostiveNum, chained => 1 );
has size   => ( Str,        chained => 1 );

...

my $object = Foo->new->cost( 42 )->weight( 45 )->size("X-Large");
say $object->size; # prints "X-Large"

To have fluent interface or allow "chaining" your attributes, simply add chained => 1 option to your attribute declaration. Note: this will automatically use rw instead of ro for the default of the is option.

Modify the sugar

It's possible to alter the defaults created by Mew:

Remove required

has -_cust => Str;

Simply prefix the attribute's name with a minus sign to avoid setting required => 1.

Alternatively, use the Optional type provided by Types::Standard.

has _cust => Optional[Str];

Modify other options

has  _cust => Str, ( init arg => "bar" );
has -_cust => Str, ( is => "lazy" );

You can explicitly provide values for options set by Mew, in which case the values you provide will be used instead of the defaults.

SEE ALSO

Moo, Type::Tiny

REPOSITORY

BUGS

AUTHOR

Part of the code was borrowed from Moo's innards. ew module is an almost-verbatim copy of oo module. Thanks to Matt S. Trout (mst) for changing my copypasta of Moo's internals to sane code and other help. Props to Altreus for coming up with the name for the module.

The rest is:

ZOFFIX

CONTRIBUTORS

MSTROUT

LICENSE

You can use and distribute this module under the same terms as Perl itself. See the LICENSE file included in this distribution for complete details.