NAME

MooseX::Has::Sugar - Sugar Syntax for moose 'has' fields

VERSION

version 1.000006

SYNOPSIS

  use Moose;
  use MooseX::Types::Moose;
  use MooseX::Has::Sugar;

  has attrname      => ( isa => Str, ro, required   );
  has otherattrname => ( isa => Str, rw, lazy_build );

DESCRIPTION

"MooseX::Has::Sugar" and its related modules provide simple, short-hand, bare-word functions that act as declarative macros for greatly compacting "Moose" "has" declarations, in a similar way to those provided by the declarative subroutines provided by "MooseX::Types"

This provides:

Less typing when defining "has" constraints
Faster, more skim-readable blocks of "has" constraints
Perl Language Level syntax validation at compile time

BENEFITS

Reduced Typing in "has" declarations.

The constant need to type "=>" and '' is fine for one-off cases, but the instant you have more than about 4 attributes it starts to get annoying.

More compact declarations.

Reduces much of the redundant typing in most cases, which makes your life easier, and makes it take up less visual space, which makes it faster to read.

No String Worries

Strings are often problematic, due to white-space etc. Noted that if you do happen to mess them up, Moose should at least warn you that you've done something daft. Using this alleviates that worry.

COMPARISONS

Classical Moose

    has foo => (
            isa => 'Str',
            is  => 'ro',
            required => 1,
    );

    has bar => (
            isa => 'Str',
            is => 'rw'
            lazy_build => 1,
    );

Lazy Evil way to do it:

PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS

    has qw( foo isa Str is ro required 1 );
    has qw( bar isa Str is rw lazy_build 1 );

With this module

( and with MooseX::Types )

    use MooseX::Types::Moose qw( Str );
    use MooseX::Has::Sugar;

    has foo => (
            isa => Str,
            ro,
            required,
    );
    has bar => (
            isa => Str,
            rw,
            lazy_build,
    );

Or even

    use MooseX::Types::Moose qw( Str );
    use MooseX::Has::Sugar;

    has foo => ( isa => Str, ro,  required, );
    has bar => ( isa => Str, rw,  lazy_build, );

ALTERNATIVE FORMS

Basic "is" Expansion Only

( using ::Sugar::Minimal instead )

    use MooseX::Types::Moose qw( Str );
    use MooseX::Has::Sugar::Minimal;

    has foo => (
            isa => Str,
            is  => ro,
            required => 1,
    );
    has bar => (
            isa => Str,
            is => rw,
            lazy_build => 1,
    );

Attribute Expansions with Basic Expansions

( Combining parts of this and ::Sugar::Minimal )

    use MooseX::Types::Moose qw( Str );
    use MooseX::Has::Sugar::Minimal;
    use MooseX::Has::Sugar qw( :attrs );

    has foo => (
            isa => Str,
            is  => ro,
            required,
    );
    has bar => (
            isa => Str,
            is => rw,
            lazy_build,
    );

EXPORT GROUPS

":default"

Since 0.0300, this exports all our syntax, the same as ":attrs" ":isattrs". Primarily because I found you generally want all the sugar, not just part of it. This also gets rid of that nasty exclusion logic.

":isattrs"

This exports "ro", "rw" and "bare" as lists, so they behave as stand-alone attributes like "lazy" does.

    has foo => (
            required,
            isa => 'Str',
            ro,
    );

NOTE: This option is incompatible with ::Sugar::Minimal : "CONFLICTS"

":attrs"

This exports "lazy" , "lazy_build" and "required", "coerce", "weak_ref" and "auto_deref" as subs that assume positive.

    has foo => (
            required,
            isa => 'Str',
    );

NOTE: This option is incompatible with MooseX::Types and Moose's Type Constraints Module : "CONFLICTS"

":is"

DEPRECATED. See ::Sugar::Minimal for the same functionality

":allattrs"

DEPRECATED, just use ":default" or do

    use MooseX::Has::Sugar;

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

"bare"

returns "('is','bare')"

"ro"

returns "('is','ro')"

"rw"

returns "('is','rw')"

"required"

returns "('required',1)"

"lazy"

returns "('lazy',1)"

"lazy_build"

returns "('lazy_build',1)"

"weak_ref"

returns "('weak_ref',1)"

"coerce"

returns "('coerce',1)"

WARNING: Conflict with MooseX::Types and Moose::Util::TypeConstraints, see "CONFLICTS".

"auto_deref"

returns "('auto_deref',1)"

CONFLICTS

MooseX::Has::Sugar::Minimal

MooseX::Has::Sugar::Saccharin

This module is not intended to be used in conjunction with ::Sugar::Minimal or ::Sugar::Saccharin

We export many of the same symbols and its just not very sensible.

MooseX::Types

Moose::Util::TypeConstraints

due to exporting the "coerce" symbol, using us in the same scope as a call to

    use MooseX::Types ....

or use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints

will result in a symbol collision.

We recommend using and creating proper type libraries instead, ( which will absolve you entirely of the need to use MooseX::Types and MooseX::Has::Sugar(::*)? in the same scope )

AUTHOR

Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>

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.