NAME

MooseX::Attribute::ChainedClone - Attribute that returns a cloned instance

VERSION

version 1.0.3

SYNOPSIS

  package Test;
  use Moose;

  has debug => (
      traits => [ 'ChainedClone' ],
      is => 'rw',
      isa => 'Bool',
      default => 0,
  );

  sub complex_method
  {
      my $self = shift;
    
      #...
    
      print "helper message" if $self->debug;
    
      #...
  }
  
  sub clone {
      my $self = shift;
      # custom clone code here
      # defaults to:
      return bless { %$self }, ref $self;
  }


  1;

Which allows for:

    my $test = Test->new;
    $test->debug(1)->complex_method; # debug enabled
                                     # complex_method is called on a cloned instance
                                     # with debug set to 1

    $test->complex_method;           # debug is still disabled on $test

    $test->debug(1); # returns a cloned $test instance with debug set to 1
    $test->debug;    # returns 0

DESCRIPTION

MooseX::Attribute::ChainedClone is a Moose Trait which allows for method chaining on accessors by returning a cloned instance of $self on write/set operations.

If $self has a "clone" method, this method is invoked to clone the instance. This allows for easy integration with MooseX::Clone or any custom made clone method. If no "clone" method is available, the new instance is build using "bless { %$self }, ref $self".

AUTHORS

Tom Hukins <tom@eborcom.com>
Moritz Onken <onken@netcubed.de>
David McLaughlin <david@dmclaughlin.com>

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.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=MooseX-Attribute-Chained> or by email to bug-moosex-attribute-chained at rt.cpan.org.

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.