NAME

Class::MOP::Method::Accessor - Method Meta Object for accessors

VERSION

version 2.2001

SYNOPSIS

use Class::MOP::Method::Accessor;

my $reader = Class::MOP::Method::Accessor->new(
    attribute     => $attribute,
    is_inline     => 1,
    accessor_type => 'reader',
);

$reader->body->execute($instance); # call the reader method

DESCRIPTION

This is a subclass of Class::MOP::Method which is used by Class::MOP::Attribute to generate accessor code. It handles generation of readers, writers, predicates and clearers. For each type of method, it can either create a subroutine reference, or actually inline code by generating a string and eval'ing it.

METHODS

Class::MOP::Method::Accessor->new(%options)

This returns a new Class::MOP::Method::Accessor based on the %options provided.

• attribute

  This is the Class::MOP::Attribute for which accessors are being generated. This option is required.

• accessor_type

  This is a string which should be one of "reader", "writer", "accessor", "predicate", or "clearer". This is the type of method being generated. This option is required.

• is_inline

  This indicates whether or not the accessor should be inlined. This defaults to false.

• name

  The method name (without a package name). This is required.

• package_name

  The package name for the method. This is required.

$metamethod->accessor_type

Returns the accessor type which was passed to new.

$metamethod->is_inline

Returns a boolean indicating whether or not the accessor is inlined.

$metamethod->associated_attribute

This returns the Class::MOP::Attribute object which was passed to new.

$metamethod->body

The method itself is generated when the accessor object is constructed.

AUTHORS

• Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>

• Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

• Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>

• Shawn M Moore <code@sartak.org>

• יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

• Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

• Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@weftsoar.net>

• Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

• Matt S Trout <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.