NAME

    NetAddr::IP::LazyInit - NetAddr::IP objects with deferred validation
    SEE DESCRIPTION BEFORE USING

VERSION

    0.2

SYNOPSIS

        use NetAddr::IP::LazyInit;
    
        my $ip = new NetAddr::IP::LazyInit( '10.10.10.5' );

DESCRIPTION

    This module is designed to quickly create objects that may become
    NetAddr::IP objects. It accepts anything you pass to it without
    validation. Once a method is called that requires operating on the
    value, the full NetAddr::IP object is constructed.

    You can see from the benchmarks that once you need to instantiate
    NetAddr::IP the speed becomes worse than if you had not used this
    module. What I mean is that this adds unneeded overhead if you intend
    to do IP operations on every object you create.

WARNING

    Because validation is deferred, this module assumes you will only ever
    give it valid data. If you try to give it anything else, it will
    happily accept it and then die once it needs to inflate into a
    NetAddr::IP object.

CREDITS

    This module was inspired by discussion with jhthorsen, and example code
    he provided. The namespace and part of the documentation/source is
    inspired by DateTime::LazyInit by Rick Measham, <rickm@cpan.org>

    I didn't have to do much so I hate to take author credit, but I am
    providing the module, so complaints can go to me.

    Robert Drake, <rdrake@cpan.org>

TODO

    If we could actually load NetAddr::IP objects in the background while
    nothing is going on that would be neat. Or we could create shortcut
    methods when the user knows what type of input he has.
    new_from_ipv4('ip','mask'). We might be able to use Socket to build the
    raw materials and bless a new NetAddr::IP object without going through
    it's validation.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Copyright (C) 2014 by Robert Drake

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at
    your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

