package Fey::Literal;
use strict;
use Scalar::Util qw( blessed looks_like_number );
use overload ();
# This needs to come before we load subclasses or shit blows up
# because we end up with a metaclass object that is a
# Class::MOP::Class, not Moose::Meta::Class.
use Moose;
sub new_from_scalar
{
shift;
my $val = shift;
return Fey::Literal::Null->new()
unless defined $val;
# Freaking Perl overloading is so broken! An overloaded reference
# will not pass the type constraints, so we need to manually
# convert it to a non-ref.
if ( blessed $val && overload::Overloaded( $val ) )
{
# The stringification method will be derived from the
# numification method if needed. This might produce strange
# results in the case of something that overloads both
# operations, like a number class that returns either 2 or
# "two", but in that case the author of the class made our
# life impossible anyway ;)
$val = $val . '';
}
return looks_like_number($val)
? Fey::Literal::Number->new($val)
: Fey::Literal::String->new($val);
}
sub id
{
return $_[0]->sql('Fey::FakeDBI');
}
no Moose;
__PACKAGE__->meta()->make_immutable();
1;
__END__
=head1 NAME
Fey::Literal - Represents a literal piece of a SQL statement
=head1 SYNOPSIS
my $literal = Fey::Literal->new_from_scalar($string_or_number_or_undef);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This class represents a literal piece of a SQL statement, such as a
string, number, or function.
It is the superclass for several more specific C<Fey::Literal>
subclasses, and also provides short
=head1 METHODS
This class provides the following methods:
=head2 Fey::Literal->new_from_scalar($scalar)
Given a string, number, or undef, this method returns a new object of
the appropriate subclass. This will be either a
C<Fey::Literal::String>, C<Fey::Literal::Number>, or
C<Fey::Literal::Null>.
=head2 $literal->id()
Returns a unique id for a literal object.
=head1 AUTHOR
Dave Rolsky, <autarch@urth.org>
=head1 BUGS
See L<Fey> for details on how to report bugs.
=head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2006-2009 Dave Rolsky, All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
=cut