NAME¶
Class::MOP::Method - Method Meta Object
VERSION¶
version 2.1213
DESCRIPTION¶
The Method Protocol is very small, since methods in Perl 5 are just subroutines
in a specific package. We provide a very basic introspection interface.
METHODS¶
- Class::MOP::Method->wrap($code, %options)
- This is the constructor. It accepts a method body in the form of either a
code reference or a Class::MOP::Method instance, followed by a hash of
options.
The options are:
- •
- name
The method name (without a package name). This is required if $code is a
coderef.
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- package_name
The package name for the method. This is required if $code is a
coderef.
- •
- associated_metaclass
An optional Class::MOP::Class object. This is the metaclass for the method's
class.
- $metamethod->clone(%params)
- This makes a shallow clone of the method object. In particular, subroutine
reference itself is shared between all clones of a given method.
When a method is cloned, the original method object will be available by
calling "original_method" on the clone.
- $metamethod->body
- This returns a reference to the method's subroutine.
- $metamethod->name
- This returns the method's name.
- $metamethod->package_name
- This returns the method's package name.
- $metamethod->fully_qualified_name
- This returns the method's fully qualified name (package name and method
name).
- $metamethod->associated_metaclass
- This returns the Class::MOP::Class object for the method, if one
exists.
- $metamethod->original_method
- If this method object was created as a clone of some other method object,
this returns the object that was cloned.
- $metamethod->original_name
- This returns the method's original name, wherever it was first defined.
If this method is a clone of a clone (of a clone, etc.), this method returns
the name from the first method in the chain of clones.
- $metamethod->original_package_name
- This returns the method's original package name, wherever it was first
defined.
If this method is a clone of a clone (of a clone, etc.), this method returns
the package name from the first method in the chain of clones.
- $metamethod->original_fully_qualified_name
- This returns the method's original fully qualified name, wherever it was
first defined.
If this method is a clone of a clone (of a clone, etc.), this method returns
the fully qualified name from the first method in the chain of
clones.
- $metamethod->is_stub
- Returns true if the method is just a stub:
sub foo;
- $metamethod->attach_to_class($metaclass)
- Given a Class::MOP::Class object, this method sets the associated
metaclass for the method. This will overwrite any existing associated
metaclass.
- $metamethod->detach_from_class
- Removes any associated metaclass object for the method.
- $metamethod->execute(...)
- This executes the method. Any arguments provided will be passed on to the
method itself.
- Class::MOP::Method->meta
- This will return a Class::MOP::Class instance for this class.
It should also be noted that Class::MOP will actually bootstrap this module
by installing a number of attribute meta-objects into its metaclass.
AUTHORS¶
- •
- Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>
- •
- Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
- •
- Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>
- •
- Shawn M Moore <code@sartak.org>
- •
- XXXX XXX'XX (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
- •
- Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
- •
- Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
- •
- Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@weftsoar.net>
- •
- Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>
- •
- Matt S Trout <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>
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.