MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast(3p)

NAME
MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast - Emulate Class::Accessor::Fast behavior using Moose attributes

SYNOPSYS
    package MyClass;
    use Moose;

    with 'MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast';

    #fields with readers and writers
    __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(qw/field1 field2/);
    #fields with readers only
    __PACKAGE__->mk_ro_accessors(qw/field3 field4/);
    #fields with writers only
    __PACKAGE__->mk_wo_accessors(qw/field5 field6/);

DESCRIPTION
This module attempts to emulate the behavior of Class::Accessor::Fast as accurately as possible using the Moose attribute system. The public API of "Class::Accessor::Fast" is wholly supported, but the private methods are not. If you are only using the public methods (as you should) migration should be a matter of switching your "use base" line to a "with" line.

While I have attempted to emulate the behavior of Class::Accessor::Fast as closely as possible bugs may still be lurking in edge-cases.

BEHAVIOR
Simple documentation is provided here for your convenience, but for more thorough documentation please see Class::Accessor::Fast and Class::Accessor.

  A note about introspection
Please note that, at this time, the "is" flag attribute is not being set. To determine the "reader" and "writer" methods using introspection in later versions of Class::MOP ( > 0.38) please use the "get_read_method" and "get_write_method" methods in Class::MOP::Attribute. Example

    # with Class::MOP <= 0.38
    my $attr = $self->meta->find_attribute_by_name($field_name);
    my $reader_method = $attr->reader || $attr->accessor;
    my $writer_method = $attr->writer || $attr->accessor;

    # with Class::MOP > 0.38
    my $attr = $self->meta->find_attribute_by_name($field_name);
    my $reader_method = $attr->get_read_method;
    my $writer_method = $attr->get_write_method;

METHODS

  BUILD $self %args
Change the default Moose class building to emulate the behavior of C::A::F and store arguments in the instance hashref.

  mk_accessors @field_names
Create read-write accessors. An attribute named $field_name will be created. The name of the c<reader> and "writer" methods will be determined by the return value of "accessor_name_for" and "mutator_name_for", which by default return the name passed unchanged. If the accessor and mutator names are equal the "accessor" attribute will be passes to Moose, otherwise the "reader" and "writer" attributes will be passed. Please see Class::MOP::Attribute for more information.

  mk_ro_accessors @field_names
Create read-only accessors.

  mk_ro_accessors @field_names
Create write-only accessors.

  follow_best_practices
Preface readers with 'get_' and writers with 'set_'. See original Class::Accessor documentation for more information.

  mutator_name_for

  accessor_name_for
See original Class::Accessor documentation for more information.

  set
See original Class::Accessor documentation for more information.

  get
See original Class::Accessor documentation for more information.

  meta
See Moose::Meta::Class.

SEE ALSO
Moose, Moose::Meta::Attribute, Class::Accessor, Class::Accessor::Fast, Class::MOP::Attribute, MooseX::Adopt::Class::Accessor::Fast

AUTHORS
Guillermo Roditi (groditi) <groditi@cpan.org>

With contributions from:

Tomas Doran (t0m) <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>
Florian Ragwitz (rafl) <rafl@debian.org>

LICENSE
You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.