NAME

Search::Tools::Object - base class for Search::Tools objects

SYNOPSIS

package MyClass;
use base qw( Search::Tools::Object );

__PACKAGE__->mk_accessors( qw( foo bar ) );

sub init {
   my $self = shift;
   $self->SUPER::init(@_);

   # do stuff to set up object
   
}

1;

# elsewhere

use MyClass;
my $object = MyClass->new;
$object->foo(123);
print $object->bar . "\n";

DESCRIPTION

Search::Tools::Object is a subclass of Rose::Object. Prior to version 0.24 STO was a subclass of Class::Accessor::Fast. Backwards compatability for the mk_accessors() and mk_ro_accessors() class methods are preserved via Search::Tools::MethodMaker.

METHODS

init

Overrides base Rose::Object method. Rather than calling the method name for each param passed in new(), the value is simply set in the object as a hash ref. This assumes every Search::Tools::Object is a blessed hash ref.

The reason the hash is preferred over the method call is to support read-only accessors, which will croak if init() tried to set values with them.

debug( n )

Get/set the debug value for the object. All objects inherit this attribute. You can use the PERL_DEBUG env var to set this value as well.

AUTHOR

Peter Karman <karman@cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-search-tools at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Search-Tools. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Search::Tools

You can also look for information at:

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2009 by Peter Karman.

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

SEE ALSO

Search::QueryParser