NAME

SYNOPSIS

 use Module::Loader;

 my $loader  = Module::Loader->new;
 my @plugins = $loader->find_modules('MyApp::Plugin');

 foreach my $plugin (@plugins) {
    $loader->load($plugin);
 }

DESCRIPTION

This module was inspired by Mojo::Loader, which I have used in a number of projects. But some people were wary of requiring Mojolicious just to get a module loader, which prompted me to create "Module::Loader".

Note: this module was initially called "Plugin::Loader", but I realised that "Module::Loader" was a more appropriate name.

 my $loader  = Module::Loader->new(max_depth => 1);

METHODS

 @plugins = $loader->find_modules('Template::Plugin');

 @plugins = $loader->find_modules('Template::Plugin',
                                  { max_depth => 1 });

 @plugins = $loader->search('Template::Plugin');

 $loader->load('MyModule::Plugin::Spank');

SEE ALSO

Module::Pluggable is effectively a role which gives a class the ability to find plugins within its namespace.

Module::Pluggable::Ordered is similar to Module::Pluggable, but lets you control the order in which modules are loaded.

all will load all modules in a given namespace, eg with "use all 'IO::*';"

lib::require::all will load all modules found in a given directory (as opposed to a namespace).

MAD::Loader provides functions for loading modules, but not for finding them.

Module::Find provides a number of functions for finding and loading modules. It provides different functions depending on whether you want to limit the search depth to 1 or not: "findallmod" vs "findsubmod".

Module::Recursive::Require will load all modules in a given namespace, and return a list of the modules found / loaded. It lets you provide regexps for filtering out certain namespaces.

Module::Require provides two functions, "require_regex" and "require_glob" which will load all locally installed modules whose name matches a pattern (specified as a regular expression or glob-style pattern).

REPOSITORY

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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