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

NAME

       MooseX::MarkAsMethods - Mark overload code symbols as methods

VERSION

       This document describes version 0.15 of MooseX::MarkAsMethods - released May 30, 2012 as part of MooseX-MarkAsMethods.

SYNOPSIS

	   package Foo;
	   use Moose;

	   # mark overloads as methods and wipe other non-methods
	   use MooseX::MarkAsMethods autoclean => 1;

	   # define overloads, etc as normal
	   use overload '""' => sub { shift->stringify };

	   package Baz;
	   use Moose::Role;
	   use MooseX::MarkAsMethods autoclean => 1;

	   # overloads defined in a role will "just work" when the role is
	   # composed into a class; they MUST use the anon-sub style invocation
	   use overload '""' => sub { shift->stringify };

	   # additional methods generated outside Class::MOP/Moose can be marked, too
	   use constant foo => 'bar';
	   __PACKAGE__->meta->mark_as_method('foo');

	   package Bar;
	   use Moose;

	   # order is important!
	   use namespace::autoclean;
	   use MooseX::MarkAsMethods;

	   # ...

DESCRIPTION

       MooseX::MarkAsMethods allows one to easily mark certain functions as Moose methods.  This will allow other packages such as
       namespace::autoclean to operate without blowing away your overloads.  After using MooseX::MarkAsMethods your overloads will be recognized
       by Class::MOP as being methods, and class extension as well as composition from roles with overloads will "just work".

       By default we check for overloads, and mark those functions as methods.

       If "autoclean => 1" is passed to import on using this module, we will invoke namespace::autoclean to clear out non-methods.

TRAITS APPLIED

       Using this package causes a trait to be applied to your metaclass (for both roles and classes), that provides a mark_as_method() method.
       You can use this to mark newly generated methods at runtime (e.g. during class composition) that some other package has created for you.

       mark_as_method() is invoked with one or more names to mark as a method.	We die on any error (e.g. name not in symbol table, already a
       method, etc).  e.g.

	   __PACKAGE__->meta->mark_as_method('newly_generated');

       e.g. say you have some sugar from another package that creates accessors of some sort; you could mark them as methods via a method
       modifier:

	   # called as __PACKAGE__->foo_generator('name', ...)
	   after 'foo_generator' => sub {

	       shift->meta->mark_as_method(shift);
	   };

IMPLICATIONS FOR ROLES

       Using MooseX::MarkAsMethods in a role will cause Moose to track and treat your overloads like any other method defined in the role, and
       things will "just work".  That's it.

       Except...  note that due to the way overloads, roles, and Moose work, you'll need to use the coderef or anonymous subroutine approach to
       overload declaration, or things will not work as you expect.  Remember, we're talking about _methods_ here, so we need to make it easy for
       overload to find the right method.  The easiest (and supported) way to do this is to create an anonymous sub to wrap the overload method.

       That is, this will work:

	   # note method resolution, things will "just work"
	   use overload '""' => sub { shift->stringify };

       ...and this will not:

	   use overload '""' => 'stringify';

       ...and will result in an error message like:

	   # wah-wah
	   Can't resolve method "???" overloading """" in package "overload"

CAVEATS

   Roles
       See the "IMPLICATIONS FOR ROLES" section, above.

   meta->mark_as_method()
       You almost certainly don't need or want to do this.  CMOP/Moose are fairly good about determining what is and what isn't a method, but not
       perfect.  Before using this method, you should pause and think about why you need to.

   namespace::autoclean
       As currently implemented, we run our "method maker" at the end of the calling package's compile scope (B::Hooks::EndOfScope).  As
       namespace::autoclean does the same thing, it's important that if namespace::autoclean is used that it be used BEFORE MooseX::MarkAsMethods,
       so that its end_of_scope block is run after ours.

       e.g.

	   # yes!
	   use namespace::autoclean;
	   use MooseX::MarkAsMethods;

	   # no -- overloads will be removed
	   use MooseX::MarkAsMethods;
	   use namespace::autoclean;

       The easiest way to invoke this module and clean out non-methods without having to worry about ordering is:

	   use MooseX::MarkAsMethods autoclean => 1;

SEE ALSO

       Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.

       o   overload, B::Hooks::EndOfScope, namespace::autoclean, Class::MOP,

       o   Moose.

       o   MooseX::Role::WithOverloading does allow for overload application from

       o   roles, but it does this by copying the overload symbols from the (not

       o   namespace::autoclean'ed role) the symbols handing overloads during class

       o   composition; we work by marking the overloads as methods and letting

       o   CMOP/Moose handle them.

SOURCE

       The development version is on github at http://github.com/RsrchBoy/moosex-markasmethods <http://github.com/RsrchBoy/moosex-markasmethods>
       and may be cloned from git://github.com/RsrchBoy/moosex-markasmethods.git <git://github.com/RsrchBoy/moosex-markasmethods.git>

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/RsrchBoy/moosex-markasmethods/issues

       When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired
       feature.

AUTHOR

       Chris Weyl <cweyl@alumni.drew.edu>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is Copyright (c) 2011 by Chris Weyl.

       This is free software, licensed under:

	 The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1, February 1999

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-31						MooseX::MarkAsMethods(3pm)