MooX::HandlesVia(3)

NAME
MooX::HandlesVia - NativeTrait-like behavior for Moo.

VERSION
version 0.001009

SYNOPSIS
  {
    package Hashy;
    use Moo;
    use MooX::HandlesVia;

    has hash => (
      is => 'rw',
      handles_via => 'Hash',
      handles => {
        get_val => 'get',
        set_val => 'set',
        all_keys => 'keys'
      }
    );
  }

  my $h = Hashy->new(hash => { a => 1, b => 2});

  $h->get_val('b'); # 2

  $h->set_val('a', 'BAR'); # sets a to BAR

  my @keys = $h->all_keys; # returns a, b

DESCRIPTION
MooX::HandlesVia is an extension of Moo's 'handles' attribute functionality. It provides a means of proxying functionality from an external class to the given atttribute. This is most commonly used as a way to emulate 'Native Trait' behavior that has become commonplace in Moose code, for which there was no Moo alternative.

SHORTCOMINGS
Due to current Moo implementation details there are some deficiencies in how MooX::HandlesVia in comparison to what you would expect from Moose native traits.

•   methods delegated via the Moo 'handles' interface are passed the attribue value directly. and there is no way to access the parent class. This means if an attribute is updated any triggers or type coercions WILL NOT fire.

•   Moo attribute method delegations are passed the attribute value. This is fine for references (objects, arrays, hashrefs..) it means simple scalar types are READ ONLY. This unfortunately means Number, String, Counter, Bool cannot modify the attributes value, rendering them largely useless.

If these are issues for you, consider Sub::HandlesVia, which uses a different architecture, respecting triggers and coercions, and allowing read-write access to non-reference values. It should be possible to use Sub::HandlesVia as a drop-in replacement for MooX::HandlesVia.

PROVIDED INTERFACE/FUNCTIONS

process_has(@_)
    MooX::HandlesVia preprocesses arguments passed to has() attribute declarations via the process_has function. In a given Moo class, If 'handles_via' is set to a ClassName string, and 'handles' is set with a hashref mapping of desired moo class methods that should map to ClassName methods, process_has() will create the appropriate binding to create the mapping IF ClassName provides that named method.

      has options => (
        is => 'rw',
        handles_via => 'Array',
        handles => {
          mixup => 'shuffle',
          unique_options => 'uniq',
          all_options => 'elements'
        }
      );

The following handles_via keywords are reserved as shorthand for mapping to Data::Perl:

•   Hash maps to Data::Perl::Collection::Hash::MooseLike

•   Array maps to Data::Perl::Collection::Array::MooseLike

•   String maps to Data::Perl::String::MooseLike

•   Number maps to Data::Perl::Number::MooseLike

•   Bool maps to Data::Perl::Bool::MooseLike

•   Code maps to Data::Perl::Code

SEE ALSO

•   Moo

•   MooX::late

•   Sub::HandlesVia

ORIGINAL AUTHOR
Matthew Phillips <mattp@cpan.org>

AUTHOR
Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Matthew Phillips <mattp@cpan.org>.

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