MooseX::Clone(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					MooseX::Clone(3pm)

NAME

       MooseX::Clone - Fine grained cloning support for Moose objects.

SYNOPSIS

	   package Bar;
	   use Moose;

	   with qw(MooseX::Clone);

	   has foo => (
	       isa => "Foo",
	       traits => [qw(Clone)], # this attribute will be recursively cloned
	   );

	   package Foo;
	   use Moose;

	   # this API is used/provided by MooseX::Clone
	   sub clone {
	       my ( $self, %params ) = @_;

	       # ...
	   }

	   # used like this:

	   my $bar = Bar->new( foo => Foo->new );

	   my $copy = $bar->clone( foo => [ qw(Args for Foo::clone) ] );

DESCRIPTION

       Out of the box Moose only provides very barebones cloning support in order to maximize flexibility.

       This role provides a "clone" method that makes use of the low level cloning support already in Moose and adds selective deep cloning based
       on introspection on top of that. Attributes with the "Clone" trait will handle cloning of data within the object, typically delegating to
       the attribute value's own "clone" method.

TRAITS

       Clone
	   By default Moose objects are cloned like this:

	       bless { %$old }, ref $old;

	   By specifying the Clone trait for certain attributes custom behavior the value's own "clone" method will be invoked.

	   By extending this trait you can create custom cloning for certain attributes.

	   By creating "clone" methods for your objects (e.g. by composing MooseX::Compile) you can make them interact with this trait.

       NoClone
	   Specifies attributes that should be skipped entirely while cloning.

METHODS

       clone %params
	   Returns a clone of the object.

	   All attributes which do the MooseX::Clone::Meta::Attribute::Trait::Clone role will handle cloning of that attribute. All other fields
	   are plainly copied over, just like in "clone_object" in Class::MOP::Class.

	   Attributes whose "init_arg" is in %params and who do the "Clone" trait will get that argument passed to the "clone" method
	   (dereferenced). If the attribute does not self-clone then the param is used normally by "clone_object" in Class::MOP::Class, that is it
	   will simply shadow the previous value, and does not have to be an array or hash reference.

TODO

       Refactor to work in term of a metaclass trait so that "meta->clone_object" will still do the right thing.

THANKS

       clkao made the food required to write this module

VERSION CONTROL

       <http://code2.0beta.co.uk/moose/svn/>. Ask on #moose for commit bits.

AUTHOR

       Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

COPYRIGHT

	   Copyright (c) 2008 Yuval Kogman. All rights reserved
	   This program is free software; you can redistribute
	   it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2010-01-14							MooseX::Clone(3pm)