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6 Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Table_MetaclassTrait - Adding a "table"
7 attribute as a metaclass trait
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13 # in lib/MyApp/Meta/Class/Trait/HasTable.pm
14 package MyApp::Meta::Class::Trait::HasTable;
15 use Moose::Role;
16 Moose::Util::meta_class_alias('HasTable');
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18 has table => (
19 is => 'rw',
20 isa => 'Str',
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23 # in lib/MyApp/User.pm
24 package MyApp::User;
25 use Moose -traits => 'HasTable';
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27 __PACKAGE__->meta->table('User');
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30 In this recipe, we'll create a class metaclass trait which has a
31 "table" attribute. This trait is for classes associated with a DBMS
32 table, as one might do for an ORM.
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34 In this example, the table name is just a string, but in a real ORM the
35 table might be an object describing the table.
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38 This really is as simple as the recipe "SYNOPSIS" shows. The trick is
39 getting your classes to use this metaclass, and providing some sort of
40 sugar for declaring the table. This is covered in
41 Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Debugging_BaseClassRole, which shows how to
42 make a module like "Moose.pm" itself, with sugar like "has_table()".
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44 Using this Metaclass Trait in Practice
45 Accessing this new "table" attribute is quite simple. Given a class
46 named "MyApp::User", we could simply write the following:
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48 my $table = MyApp::User->meta->table;
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50 As long as "MyApp::User" has arranged to apply the
51 "MyApp::Meta::Class::Trait::HasTable" to its metaclass, this method
52 call just works. If we want to be more careful, we can check that the
53 class metaclass object has a "table" method:
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55 $table = MyApp::User->meta->table
56 if MyApp::User->meta->can('table');
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58 In theory, this is not entirely correct, since the metaclass might be
59 getting its "table" method from a different trait. In practice, you are
60 unlikely to encounter this sort of problem.
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63 This recipe doesn't work when you paste it all into a single file. This
64 is because the "use Moose -traits => 'HasTable';" line ends up being
65 executed before the "table" attribute is defined.
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67 When the two packages are separate files, this just works.
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70 Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Labeled_AttributeTrait - Labels implemented via
71 attribute traits =pod
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74 · Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>
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76 · Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
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78 · Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>
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80 · Shawn M Moore <code@sartak.org>
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82 · יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
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84 · Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
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86 · Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
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88 · Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@weftsoar.net>
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90 · Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>
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92 · Matt S Trout <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>
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95 This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.
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97 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
98 the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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