DISCLAIMER
Class::Maker
============
! THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE - DO NOT USE THIS MODULE !
THIS SOFTWARE SHIPS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
Everything except the basic functionalities are still under constant
reorganisation. Also major parts of the documentation are wrong or already
outdated.
NAME
Class::Maker - classes, reflection, schemas, serialization, attribute- and
multiple inheritance
VERSION
0.06 (Thu Dec 17 21:41:43 2009)
DESCRIPTION
AUDIENCE This package is for the intermediate-to-pro oo-perl programmer.
While it has basicly similarities to Class::Struct and Class::MethodMaker,
this package has significant differences and additional functionalities.
ATTRIBUTE INHERITANCE Because all attributes are accessible through
accessors, they are following ISA inheritance / overloading as normal
methods do.
MULTIPLE INHERITANCE Per default, Class::Maker cares for constructing all
parent objects via its 'new' or '_init' constructors. It uses a trick to
derive from even non Class::Maker classes correctly.
REFLECTION/CLASS INTROSPECTION Java-like reflection or recursive class
introspectiong for methods/attribute/ triggers are available during
runtime. This is helpfull for implementing persistance, serialization,
class tree charting and some other nifty tricks.
OBJECT PERSISTANCE A recursive Tangram (see cpan) schema generator is also
available, which significantly eases the use of object-persistance as long
as you use Class::Maker classes and following some simple guidelines.
SYNOPSIS
use Class::Maker qw(:all);
class Something;
class Person,
{
isa => [ 'Something' ],
public =>
{
scalar => [qw( name age internal )],
},
private
{
int => [qw( internal )],
},
};
sub Person::hello
{
my $this = shift;
$this->_internal( 2123 ); # the private one
printf "Here is %s and i am %d years old.\n", $this->name, $this->age;
};
my $p = Person->new( name => Murat, age => 27 );
$p->hello;
INSTALLATION
I highly recommend to use CPAN for one-stop-shop installation:
perl -MCPAN -e "install Class::Maker"
PREREQUISITES
Following modules get automatically installed via the CPAN module. See
INSTALLATION above. Data::Type has a mechanism for delayed loading of
modules. This means modules are loaded only when the used types require
them, not all at once.
XML::LibXSLT (0)
Data::Dumper (0)
IO::Extended (0)
Error (0.15)
Algorithm::FastPermute (0.05)
Array::Compare (1.03)
READON
Visit the Class::Maker main documentation.
CONTACT
Please help to make life easier and send comments/suggestions/reports to
<http://rt.cpan.org> or help with <http://testers.cpan.org>.
AUTHOR
Murat Uenalan, <muenalan@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT/LICENSE
(c) 2009 by Murat Uenalan. All rights reserved. Note: This program is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
perl itself