Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class(3p)

NAME
Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class - Class/TypeConstraint parallel hierarchy

VERSION
version 2.2206

DESCRIPTION
This class represents type constraints for a class.

INHERITANCE
"Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class" is a subclass of Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint.

METHODS

  Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class->new(%options)
This creates a new class type constraint based on the given %options.

It takes the same options as its parent, with two exceptions. First, it requires an additional option, "class", which is name of the constraint's class. Second, it automatically sets the parent to the "Object" type.

The constructor also overrides the hand optimized type constraint with one it creates internally.

  $constraint->class
Returns the class name associated with the constraint.

  $constraint->parents
Returns all the type's parent types, corresponding to its parent classes.

  $constraint->is_subtype_of($type_name_or_object)
If the given type is also a class type, then this checks that the type's class is a subclass of the other type's class.

Otherwise it falls back to the implementation in Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint.

  $constraint->create_child_type(%options)
This returns a new Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint object with the type as its parent.

Note that it does not return a "Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class" object!

  $constraint->get_message($value)
This is the same as "get_message" in Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint except that it explicitly says "isa" was checked. This is to help users deal with accidentally autovivified type constraints.

BUGS
See "BUGS" in Moose for details on reporting bugs.

AUTHORS

•   Stevan Little <stevan@cpan.org>

•   Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

•   Jesse Luehrs <doy@cpan.org>

•   Shawn M Moore <sartak@cpan.org>

•   יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

•   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

•   Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

•   Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@cpan.org>

•   Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

•   Matt S Trout <mstrout@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

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