NAME¶
Moose::Manual::Delta - Important Changes in Moose
VERSION¶
version 2.1213
DESCRIPTION¶
This documents any important or noteworthy changes in Moose, with a focus on
things that affect backwards compatibility. This does duplicate data from the
Changes file, but aims to provide more details and when possible
workarounds.
Besides helping keep up with changes, you can also use this document for finding
the lowest version of Moose that supported a given feature. If you encounter a
problem and have a solution but don't see it documented here, or think we
missed an important feature, please send us a patch.
2.1200¶
- Classes created by Moose are now registered in %INC
- This means that this will no longer die (and will also no longer try to
load "Foo.pm"):
{
package Foo;
use Moose;
}
# ...
use Foo;
If you're using the MOP, this behavior will occur when the
"create" (or "create_anon_class") method is used, but
not when the "initialize" method is used.
- Moose now uses Module::Runtime instead of Class::Load to load classes
- Class::Load has always had some weird issues with the ways that it tries
to figure out if a class is loaded. For instance, extending an empty
package was previously impossible, because Class::Load would think that
the class failed to load, even though that is a perfectly valid thing to
do. It was also difficult to deal with modules like IO::Handle, which
partially populate several other packages when they are loaded (so calling
"load_class" on 'IO::Handle' followed by 'IO::File' could end up
with a broken "IO::File", in some cases).
Now, Moose uses the same mechanisms as perl itself to figure out if a class
is loaded. A class is considered to be loaded if its entry in %INC is set.
Perl sets the %INC entry for you automatically whenever a file is loaded
via "use" or "require". Also, as mentioned above,
Moose also now sets the %INC entry for any classes defined with it, even
if they aren't loaded from a separate file. This does however mean that if
you are trying to use Moose with non-Moose classes defined in the same
file, then you will need to set %INC manually now, where it may have
worked in the past. For instance:
{
package My::NonMoose;
sub new { bless {}, shift }
$INC{'My/NonMoose.pm'} = __FILE__;
# alternatively:
# use Module::Runtime 'module_notional_filename';
# $INC{module_notional_filename(__PACKAGE__)} = __FILE__;
}
{
package My::Moose;
use Moose;
extends 'My::NonMoose';
}
If you don't do this, you will get an error message about not being able to
locate "My::NonMoose" in @INC. We hope that this case will be
fairly rare.
- The Class::Load wrapper functions in Class::MOP have been deprecated
- "Class::MOP::load_class",
"Class::MOP::is_class_loaded", and
"Class::MOP::load_first_existing_class" have been deprecated.
They have been undocumented and discouraged since version 2.0200. You
should replace their use with the corresponding functions in Class::Load,
or just use Module::Runtime directly.
- The non-arrayref forms of "enum" and "duck_type" have
been deprecated
- Originally, "enum" could be called like this:
enum('MyType' => qw(foo bar baz))
This was confusing, however (since it was different from the syntax for
anonymous enum types), and it makes error checking more difficult (since
you can't tell just by looking whether "enum('Foo', 'Bar',
'Baz')" was intended to be a type named "Foo" with elements
of "Bar" and "Baz", or if this was actually a mistake
where someone got the syntax for an anonymous enum type wrong). This all
also applies to "duck_type".
Calling "enum" and "duck_type" with a list of arguments
as described above has been undocumented since version 0.93, and is now
deprecated. You should replace
enum MyType => qw(foo bar baz);
in your code with
enum MyType => [qw(foo bar baz)];
- Moose string exceptions have been replaced by Moose exception objects
- Previously, Moose threw string exceptions on error conditions, which were
not so verbose. All those string exceptions have now been converted to
exception objects, which provide very detailed information about the
exceptions. These exception objects provide a string overload that matches
the previous exception message, so in most cases you should not have to
change your code.
For learning about the usage of Moose exception objects, read
Moose::Manual::Exceptions. Individual exceptions are documented in
Moose::Manual::Exceptions::Manifest.
This work was funded as part of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women.
2.1000¶
- The Num type is now stricter
- The "Num" type used to accept anything that fits Perl's notion
of a number, which included Inf, NaN, and strings like " 1234
\n". We believe that the type constraint should indicate "this
is a number", not "this coerces to a number". Therefore,
now Num accepts only integers, floating point numbers (both in decimal
notation and exponential notation), 0, .0, 0.0 etc.
If you want the old behavior you can use the "LaxNum" type in
MooseX::Types::LaxNum.
- You can use Specio instead of core Moose types
- The Specio distribution is an experimental new type system intended to
eventually replace the core Moose types, but yet also work with things
like Moo and Mouse and anything else. Right now this is all speculative,
but at least you can use Specio with Moose.
2.0600¶
- "->init_meta" is even less reliable at loading
extensions
- Previously, calling "MooseX::Foo->init_meta(@_)" (and nothing
else) from within your own "init_meta" had a decent chance of
doing something useful. This was never supported behavior, and didn't
always work anyway. Due to some implementation adjustments, this now has a
smaller chance of doing something useful, which could break code that was
expecting it to continue doing useful things. Code that does this should
instead just call "MooseX::Foo->import({ into => $into
})".
- All the Cookbook recipes have been renamed
- We've given them all descriptive names, rather than numbers. This makes it
easier to talk about them, and eliminates the need to renumber recipes in
order to reorder them or delete one.
2.0400¶
- The parent of a union type is its components' nearest common ancestor
- Previously, union types considered all of their component types their
parent types. This was incorrect because parent types are defined as types
that must be satisfied in order for the child type to be satisfied, but in
a union, validating as any parent type will validate against the entire
union. This has been changed to find the nearest common ancestor for all
of its components. For example, a union of "Int|ArrayRef[Int]"
now has a parent of "Defined".
- Union types consider all members in the "is_subtype_of" and
"is_a_type_of" methods
- Previously, a union type would report itself as being of a subtype of a
type if any of its member types were subtypes of that type. This
was incorrect because any value that passes a subtype constraint must also
pass a parent constraint. This has changed so that all of its
member types must be a subtype of the specified type.
- Enum types now work with just one value
- Previously, an "enum" type needed to have two or more values.
Nobody knew why, so we fixed it.
- Methods defined in UNIVERSAL now appear in the MOP
- Any method introspection methods that look at methods from parent classes
now find methods defined in UNIVERSAL. This includes methods like
"$class->get_all_methods" and
"$class->find_method_by_name".
This also means that you can now apply method modifiers to these
methods.
- Hand-optimized type constraint code causes a deprecation warning
- If you provide an optimized sub ref for a type constraint, this now causes
a deprecation warning. Typically, this comes from passing an
"optimize_as" parameter to "subtype", but it could
also happen if you create a Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint object directly.
Use the inlining feature ("inline_as") added in 2.0100
instead.
- "Class::Load::load_class" and "is_class_loaded" have
been removed
- The "Class::MOP::load_class" and
"Class::MOP::is_class_loaded" subroutines are no longer
documented, and will cause a deprecation warning in the future. Moose now
uses Class::Load to provide this functionality, and you should do so as
well.
2.0205¶
- Array and Hash native traits provide a "shallow_clone"
method
- The Array and Hash native traits now provide a "shallow_clone"
method, which will return a reference to a new container with the same
contents as the attribute's reference.
2.0200¶
- Hand-optimized type constraint code is deprecated in favor of
inlining
- Moose allows you to provide a hand-optimized version of a type
constraint's subroutine reference. This version allows type constraints to
generate inline code, and you should use this inlining instead of
providing a hand-optimized subroutine reference.
This affects the "optimize_as" sub exported by
Moose::Util::TypeConstraints. Use "inline_as" instead.
This will start warning in the 2.0300 release.
2.0002¶
- More useful type constraint error messages
- If you have Devel::PartialDump version 0.14 or higher installed, Moose's
type constraint error messages will use it to display the invalid value,
rather than just displaying it directly. This will generally be much more
useful. For instance, instead of this:
Attribute (foo) does not pass the type constraint because: Validation failed for 'ArrayRef[Int]' with value ARRAY(0x275eed8)
the error message will instead look like
Attribute (foo) does not pass the type constraint because: Validation failed for 'ArrayRef[Int]' with value [ "a" ]
Note that Devel::PartialDump can't be made a direct dependency at the
moment, because it uses Moose itself, but we're considering options to
make this easier.
2.0000¶
- Roles have their own default attribute metaclass
- Previously, when a role was applied to a class, it would use the attribute
metaclass defined in the class when copying over the attributes in the
role. This was wrong, because for instance, using MooseX::FollowPBP in the
class would end up renaming all of the accessors generated by the role,
some of which may be being called in the role, causing it to break. Roles
now keep track of their own attribute metaclass to use by default when
being applied to a class (defaulting to Moose::Meta::Attribute). This is
modifiable using Moose::Util::MetaRole by passing the
"applied_attribute" key to the "role_metaroles"
option, as in:
Moose::Util::MetaRole::apply_metaroles(
for => __PACKAGE__,
class_metaroles => {
attribute => ['My::Meta::Role::Attribute'],
},
role_metaroles => {
applied_attribute => ['My::Meta::Role::Attribute'],
},
);
- Class::MOP has been folded into the Moose dist
- Moose and Class::MOP are tightly related enough that they have always had
to be kept pretty closely in step in terms of versions. Making them into a
single dist should simplify the upgrade process for users, as it should no
longer be possible to upgrade one without the other and potentially cause
issues. No functionality has changed, and this should be entirely
transparent.
- Moose's conflict checking is more robust and useful
- There are two parts to this. The most useful one right now is that Moose
will ship with a "moose-outdated" script, which can be run at
any point to list the modules which are installed that conflict with the
installed version of Moose. After upgrading Moose, running
"moose-outdated | cpanm" should be sufficient to ensure that all
of the Moose extensions you use will continue to work.
The other part is that Moose's "META.json" file will also specify
the conflicts under the "x_conflicts" (now "x_breaks")
key. We are working with the Perl tool chain developers to try to get
conflicts support added to CPAN clients, and if/when that happens, the
metadata already exists, and so the conflict checking will become
automatic.
- Most deprecated APIs/features are slated for removal in Moose 2.0200
- Most of the deprecated APIs and features in Moose will start throwing an
error in Moose 2.0200. Some of the features will go away entirely, and
some will simply throw an error.
The things on the chopping block are:
- The lazy_build attribute feature is discouraged
- While not deprecated, we strongly discourage you from using this
feature.
- •
- Old public methods in Class::MOP and Moose
This includes things like
"Class::MOP::Class->get_attribute_map",
"Class::MOP::Class->construct_instance", and many others.
These were deprecated in Class::MOP 0.80_01, released on April 5, 2009.
These methods will be removed entirely in Moose 2.0200.
- •
- Old public functions in Class::MOP
This include "Class::MOP::subname",
"Class::MOP::in_global_destruction", and the
"Class::MOP::HAS_ISAREV" constant. The first two were deprecated
in 0.84, and the last in 0.80. Class::MOP 0.84 was released on May 12,
2009.
These functions will be removed entirely in Moose 2.0200.
- •
- The "alias" and "excludes" option for role composition
These were renamed to "-alias" and "-excludes" in Moose
0.89, released on August 13, 2009.
Passing these will throw an error in Moose 2.0200.
- •
- The old Moose::Util::MetaRole API
This include the "apply_metaclass_roles()" function, as well as
passing the "for_class" or any key ending in "_roles"
to "apply_metaroles()". This was deprecated in Moose 0.93_01,
released on January 4, 2010.
These will all throw an error in Moose 2.0200.
- •
- Passing plain lists to "type()" or "subtype()"
The old API for these functions allowed you to pass a plain list of
parameter, rather than a list of hash references (which is what
"as()", "where", etc. return). This was deprecated in
Moose 0.71_01, released on February 22, 2009.
This will throw an error in Moose 2.0200.
- •
- The Role subtype
This subtype was deprecated in Moose 0.84, released on June 26, 2009.
This will be removed entirely in Moose 2.0200.
1.21¶
- •
- New release policy
As of the 2.0 release, Moose now has an official release and support policy,
documented in Moose::Manual::Support. All API changes will now go through
a deprecation cycle of at least one year, after which the deprecated API
can be removed. Deprecations and removals will only happen in major
releases.
In between major releases, we will still make minor releases to add new
features, fix bugs, update documentation, etc.
1.16¶
- Configurable stacktraces
- Classes which use the Moose::Error::Default error class can now have
stacktraces disabled by setting the "MOOSE_ERROR_STYLE" env var
to "croak". This is experimental, fairly incomplete, and won't
work in all cases (because Moose's error system in general is all of these
things), but this should allow for reducing at least some of the verbosity
in most cases.
1.15¶
- Native Delegations
- In previous versions of Moose, the Native delegations were created as
closures. The generated code was often quite slow compared to doing the
same thing by hand. For example, the Array's push delegation ended up
doing something like this:
push @{ $self->$reader() }, @_;
If the attribute was created without a reader, the $reader sub reference
followed a very slow code path. Even with a reader, this is still slower
than it needs to be.
Native delegations are now generated as inline code, just like other
accessors, so we can access the slot directly.
In addition, native traits now do proper constraint checking in all cases.
In particular, constraint checking has been improved for array and hash
references. Previously, only the contained type (the
"Str" in "HashRef[Str]") would be checked when a new
value was added to the collection. However, if there was a constraint that
applied to the whole value, this was never checked.
In addition, coercions are now called on the whole value.
The delegation methods now do more argument checking. All of the methods
check that a valid number of arguments were passed to the method. In
addition, the delegation methods check that the arguments are sane (array
indexes, hash keys, numbers, etc.) when applicable. We have tried to
emulate the behavior of Perl builtins as much as possible.
Finally, triggers are called whenever the value of the attribute is changed
by a Native delegation.
These changes are only likely to break code in a few cases.
The inlining code may or may not preserve the original reference when
changes are made. In some cases, methods which change the value may
replace it entirely. This will break tied values.
If you have a typed arrayref or hashref attribute where the type enforces a
constraint on the whole collection, this constraint will now be checked.
It's possible that code which previously ran without errors will now cause
the constraint to fail. However, presumably this is a good thing ;)
If you are passing invalid arguments to a delegation which were previously
being ignored, these calls will now fail.
If your code relied on the trigger only being called for a regular writer,
that may cause problems.
As always, you are encouraged to test before deploying the latest version of
Moose to production.
- Defaults is and default for String, Counter, and Bool
- A few native traits (String, Counter, Bool) provide default values of
"is" and "default" when you created an attribute.
Allowing them to provide these values is now deprecated. Supply the value
yourself when creating the attribute.
- The "meta" method
- Moose and Class::MOP have been cleaned up internally enough to make the
"meta" method that you get by default optional. "use
Moose" and "use Moose::Role" now can take an additional
"-meta_name" option, which tells Moose what name to use when
installing the "meta" method. Passing "undef" to this
option suppresses generation of the "meta" method entirely. This
should be useful for users of modules which also use a "meta"
method or function, such as Curses or Rose::DB::Object.
1.09¶
- All deprecated features now warn
- Previously, deprecation mostly consisted of simply saying "X is
deprecated" in the Changes file. We were not very consistent about
actually warning. Now, all deprecated features still present in Moose
actually give a warning. The warning is issued once per calling package.
See Moose::Deprecated for more details.
- You cannot pass "coerce => 1" unless the attribute's type
constraint has a coercion
- Previously, this was accepted, and it sort of worked, except that if you
attempted to set the attribute after the object was created, you would get
a runtime error.
Now you will get a warning when you attempt to define the attribute.
- "no Moose", "no Moose::Role", and "no
Moose::Exporter" no longer unimport strict and warnings
- This change was made in 1.05, and has now been reverted. We don't know if
the user has explicitly loaded strict or warnings on their own, and
unimporting them is just broken in that case.
- Reversed logic when defining which options can be changed
- Moose::Meta::Attribute now allows all options to be changed in an
overridden attribute. The previous behaviour required each option to be
whitelisted using the "legal_options_for_inheritance" method.
This method has been removed, and there is a new method,
"illegal_options_for_inheritance", which can now be used to
prevent certain options from being changeable.
In addition, we only throw an error if the illegal option is actually
changed. If the superclass didn't specify this option at all when defining
the attribute, the subclass version can still add it as an option.
Example of overriding this in an attribute trait:
package Bar::Meta::Attribute;
use Moose::Role;
has 'my_illegal_option' => (
isa => 'CodeRef',
is => 'rw',
);
around illegal_options_for_inheritance => sub {
return ( shift->(@_), qw/my_illegal_option/ );
};
1.05¶
- "BUILD" in Moose::Object methods are now called when calling
"new_object"
- Previously, "BUILD" methods would only be called from
"Moose::Object::new", but now they are also called when
constructing an object via "Moose::Meta::Class::new_object".
"BUILD" methods are an inherent part of the object construction
process, and this should make "$meta->new_object" actually
usable without forcing people to use
"$meta->name->new".
- "no Moose", "no Moose::Role", and "no
Moose::Exporter" now unimport strict and warnings
- In the interest of having "no Moose" clean up everything that
"use Moose" does in the calling scope, "no Moose" (as
well as all other Moose::Exporter-using modules) now unimports strict and
warnings.
- Metaclass compatibility checking and fixing should be much more
robust
- The metaclass compatibility checking and fixing algorithms have been
completely rewritten, in both Class::MOP and Moose. This should resolve
many confusing errors when dealing with non-Moose inheritance and with
custom metaclasses for things like attributes, constructors, etc. For
correct code, the only thing that should require a change is that custom
error metaclasses must now inherit from Moose::Error::Default.
1.02¶
- Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class is_subtype_of behavior
- Earlier versions of is_subtype_of would incorrectly return true when
called with itself, its own TC name or its class name as an argument.
(i.e. $foo_tc->is_subtype_of('Foo') == 1) This behavior was a caused by
"isa" being checked before the class name. The old behavior can
be accessed with is_type_of
1.00¶
- Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code no longer creates reader
methods by default
- Earlier versions of Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code created
read-only accessors for the attributes it's been applied to, even if you
didn't ask for it with "is => 'ro'". This incorrect behaviour
has now been fixed.
0.95¶
- Moose::Util add_method_modifier behavior
- add_method_modifier (and subsequently the sugar functions Moose::before,
Moose::after, and Moose::around) can now accept arrayrefs, with the same
behavior as lists. Types other than arrayref and regexp result in an
error.
0.93_01 and 0.94¶
- Moose::Util::MetaRole API has changed
- The "apply_metaclass_roles" function is now called
"apply_metaroles". The way arguments are supplied has been
changed to force you to distinguish between metaroles applied to
Moose::Meta::Class (and helpers) versus Moose::Meta::Role.
The old API still works, but will warn in a future release, and eventually
be removed.
- Moose::Meta::Role has real attributes
- The attributes returned by Moose::Meta::Role are now instances of the
Moose::Meta::Role::Attribute class, instead of bare hash references.
- "no Moose" now removes "blessed" and
"confess"
- Moose is now smart enough to know exactly what it exported, even when it
re-exports functions from other packages. When you unimport Moose, it will
remove these functions from your namespace unless you also imported
them directly from their respective packages.
If you have a "no Moose" in your code before you call
"blessed" or "confess", your code will break. You can
either move the "no Moose" call later in your code, or
explicitly import the relevant functions from the packages that provide
them.
- Moose::Exporter is smarter about unimporting re-exports
- The change above comes from a general improvement to Moose::Exporter. It
will now unimport any function it exports, even if that function is a
re-export from another package.
- Attributes in roles can no longer override class attributes with
"+foo"
- Previously, this worked more or less accidentally, because role attributes
weren't objects. This was never documented, but a few MooseX modules took
advantage of this.
- The composition_class_roles attribute in Moose::Meta::Role is now a
method
- This was done to make it possible for roles to alter the list of
composition class roles by applying a method modifiers. Previously, this
was an attribute and MooseX modules override it. Since that no longer
works, this was made a method.
This should be an attribute, so this may switch back to being an
attribute in the future if we can figure out how to make this work.
0.93¶
- Calling $object->new() is no longer deprecated
- We decided to undeprecate this. Now it just works.
- Both "get_method_map" and "get_attribute_map" is
deprecated
- These metaclass methods were never meant to be public, and they are both
now deprecated. The work around if you still need the functionality they
provided is to iterate over the list of names manually.
my %fields = map { $_ => $meta->get_attribute($_) } $meta->get_attribute_list;
This was actually a change in Class::MOP, but this version of Moose requires
a version of Class::MOP that includes said change.
0.90¶
- Added Native delegation for Code refs
- See Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code for details.
- Calling $object->new() is deprecated
- Moose has long supported this, but it's never really been documented, and
we don't think this is a good practice. If you want to construct an object
from an existing object, you should provide some sort of alternate
constructor like "$object->clone".
Calling "$object->new" now issues a warning, and will be an
error in a future release.
- Moose no longer warns if you call "make_immutable" for a class
with mutable ancestors
- While in theory this is a good thing to warn about, we found so many
exceptions to this that doing this properly became quite problematic.
0.89_02¶
- New Native delegation methods from List::Util and List::MoreUtils
- In particular, we now have "reduce", "shuffle",
"uniq", and "natatime".
- The Moose::Exporter with_caller feature is now deprecated
- Use "with_meta" instead. The "with_caller" option will
start warning in a future release.
- Moose now warns if you call "make_immutable" for a class with
mutable ancestors
- This is dangerous because modifying a class after a subclass has been
immutabilized will lead to incorrect results in the subclass, due to
inlining, caching, etc. This occasionally happens accidentally, when a
class loads one of its subclasses in the middle of its class definition,
so pointing out that this may cause issues should be helpful. Metaclasses
(classes that inherit from Class::MOP::Object) are currently exempt from
this check, since at the moment we aren't very consistent about which
metaclasses we immutabilize.
- "enum" and "duck_type" now take arrayrefs for all
forms
- Previously, calling these functions with a list would take the first
element of the list as the type constraint name, and use the remainder as
the enum values or method names. This makes the interface inconsistent
with the anon-type forms of these functions (which must take an arrayref),
and a free-form list where the first value is sometimes special is hard to
validate (and harder to give reasonable error messages for). These
functions have been changed to take arrayrefs in all their forms - so,
"enum 'My::Type' => [qw(foo bar)]" is now the preferred way
to create an enum type constraint. The old syntax still works for now, but
it will hopefully be deprecated and removed in a future release.
0.89_01¶
Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native has been moved into the Moose core from
MooseX::AttributeHelpers. Major changes include:
- "traits", not "metaclass"
- Method providers are only available via traits.
- "handles", not "provides" or "curries"
- The "provides" syntax was like core Moose "handles =>
HASHREF" syntax, but with the keys and values reversed. This was
confusing, and AttributeHelpers now uses "handles => HASHREF"
in a way that should be intuitive to anyone already familiar with how it
is used for other attributes.
The "curries" functionality provided by AttributeHelpers has been
generalized to apply to all cases of "handles => HASHREF",
though not every piece of functionality has been ported (currying with a
CODEREF is not supported).
- "empty" is now "is_empty", and means empty, not
non-empty
- Previously, the "empty" method provided by Arrays and Hashes
returned true if the attribute was not empty (no elements). Now it
returns true if the attribute is empty. It was also renamed to
"is_empty", to reflect this.
- "find" was renamed to "first", and "first"
and "last" were removed
- List::Util refers to the functionality that we used to provide under
"find" as first, so that will likely be more familiar (and will
fit in better if we decide to add more List::Util functions).
"first" and "last" were removed, since their
functionality is easily duplicated with curries of "get".
- Helpers that take a coderef of one argument now use $_
- Subroutines passed as the first argument to "first",
"map", and "grep" now receive their argument in $_
rather than as a parameter to the subroutine. Helpers that take a coderef
of two or more arguments remain using the argument list (there are
technical limitations to using $a and $b like "sort" does).
See Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native for the new documentation.
The "alias" and "excludes" role parameters have been renamed
to "-alias" and "-excludes". The old names still work, but
new code should use the new names, and eventually the old ones will be
deprecated and removed.
0.89¶
"use Moose -metaclass => 'Foo'" now does alias resolution, just
like "-traits" (and the "metaclass" and "traits"
options to "has").
Added two functions "meta_class_alias" and
"meta_attribute_alias" to Moose::Util, to simplify aliasing
metaclasses and metatraits. This is a wrapper around the old
package Moose::Meta::Class::Custom::Trait::FooTrait;
sub register_implementation { 'My::Meta::Trait' }
way of doing this.
0.84¶
When an attribute generates
no accessors, we now warn. This is to help
users who forget the "is" option. If you really do not want any
accessors, you can use "is => 'bare'". You can maintain back
compat with older versions of Moose by using something like:
($Moose::VERSION >= 0.84 ? is => 'bare' : ())
When an accessor overwrites an existing method, we now warn. To work around this
warning (if you really must have this behavior), you can explicitly remove the
method before creating it as an accessor:
sub foo {}
__PACKAGE__->meta->remove_method('foo');
has foo => (
is => 'ro',
);
When an unknown option is passed to "has", we now warn. You can
silence the warning by fixing your code. :)
The "Role" type has been deprecated. On its own, it was useless, since
it just checked "$object->can('does')". If you were using it as a
parent type, just call "role_type('Role::Name')" to create an
appropriate type instead.
0.78¶
"use Moose::Exporter;" now imports "strict" and
"warnings" into packages that use it.
0.77¶
"DEMOLISHALL" and "DEMOLISH" now receive an argument
indicating whether or not we are in global destruction.
0.76¶
Type constraints no longer run coercions for a value that already matches the
constraint. This may affect some (arguably buggy) edge case coercions that
rely on side effects in the "via" clause.
0.75¶
Moose::Exporter now accepts the "-metaclass" option for easily
overriding the metaclass (without metaclass). This works for classes and
roles.
0.74¶
Added a "duck_type" sugar function to Moose::Util::TypeConstraints to
make integration with non-Moose classes easier. It simply checks if
"$obj->can()" a list of methods.
A number of methods (mostly inherited from Class::MOP) have been renamed with a
leading underscore to indicate their internal-ness. The old method names will
still work for a while, but will warn that the method has been renamed. In a
few cases, the method will be removed entirely in the future. This may affect
MooseX authors who were using these methods.
0.73¶
Calling "subtype" with a name as the only argument now throws an
exception. If you want an anonymous subtype do:
my $subtype = subtype as 'Foo';
This is related to the changes in version 0.71_01.
The "is_needed" method in Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor is now only
usable as a class method. Previously, it worked as a class or object method,
with a different internal implementation for each version.
The internals of making a class immutable changed a lot in Class::MOP 0.78_02,
and Moose's internals have changed along with it. The external
"$metaclass->make_immutable" method still works the same way.
0.72¶
A mutable class accepted "Foo->new(undef)" without complaint, while
an immutable class would blow up with an unhelpful error. Now, in both cases
we throw a helpful error instead.
This "feature" was originally added to allow for cases such as this:
my $args;
if ( something() ) {
$args = {...};
}
return My::Class->new($args);
But we decided this is a bad idea and a little too magical, because it can
easily mask real errors.
0.71_01¶
Calling "type" or "subtype" without the sugar helpers
("as", "where", "message") is now deprecated.
As a side effect, this meant we ended up using Perl prototypes on
"as", and code like this will no longer work:
use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
use Declare::Constraints::Simple -All;
subtype 'ArrayOfInts'
=> as 'ArrayRef'
=> IsArrayRef(IsInt);
Instead it must be changed to this:
subtype(
'ArrayOfInts' => {
as => 'ArrayRef',
where => IsArrayRef(IsInt)
}
);
If you want to maintain backwards compat with older versions of Moose, you must
explicitly test Moose's "VERSION":
if ( Moose->VERSION < 0.71_01 ) {
subtype 'ArrayOfInts'
=> as 'ArrayRef'
=> IsArrayRef(IsInt);
}
else {
subtype(
'ArrayOfInts' => {
as => 'ArrayRef',
where => IsArrayRef(IsInt)
}
);
}
0.70¶
We no longer pass the meta-attribute object as a final argument to triggers.
This actually changed for inlined code a while back, but the non-inlined
version and the docs were still out of date.
If by some chance you actually used this feature, the workaround is simple. You
fetch the attribute object from out of the $self that is passed as the first
argument to trigger, like so:
has 'foo' => (
is => 'ro',
isa => 'Any',
trigger => sub {
my ( $self, $value ) = @_;
my $attr = $self->meta->find_attribute_by_name('foo');
# ...
}
);
0.66¶
If you created a subtype and passed a parent that Moose didn't know about, it
simply ignored the parent. Now it automatically creates the parent as a class
type. This may not be what you want, but is less broken than before.
You could declare a name with subtype such as "Foo!Bar". Moose would
accept this allowed, but if you used it in a parameterized type such as
"ArrayRef[Foo!Bar]" it wouldn't work. We now do some vetting on
names created via the sugar functions, so that they can only contain
alphanumerics, ":", and ".".
0.65¶
Methods created via an attribute can now fulfill a "requires"
declaration for a role. Honestly we don't know why Stevan didn't make this
work originally, he was just insane or something.
Stack traces from inlined code will now report the line and file as being in
your class, as opposed to in Moose guts.
0.62_02¶
When a class does not provide all of a role's required methods, the error thrown
now mentions all of the missing methods, as opposed to just the first missing
method.
Moose will no longer inline a constructor for your class unless it inherits its
constructor from Moose::Object, and will warn when it doesn't inline. If you
want to force inlining anyway, pass "replace_constructor => 1" to
"make_immutable".
If you want to get rid of the warning, pass "inline_constructor =>
0".
0.62¶
Removed the (deprecated) "make_immutable" keyword.
Removing an attribute from a class now also removes delegation
("handles") methods installed for that attribute. This is correct
behavior, but if you were wrongly relying on it you might get bit.
0.58¶
Roles now add methods by calling "add_method", not
"alias_method". They make sure to always provide a method object,
which will be cloned internally. This means that it is now possible to track
the source of a method provided by a role, and even follow its history through
intermediate roles. This means that methods added by a role now show up when
looking at a class's method list/map.
Parameter and Union args are now sorted, this makes Int|Str the same constraint
as Str|Int. Also, incoming type constraint strings are normalized to remove
all whitespace differences. This is mostly for internals and should not affect
outside code.
Moose::Exporter will no longer remove a subroutine that the exporting package
re-exports. Moose re-exports the Carp::confess function, among others. The
reasoning is that we cannot know whether you have also explicitly imported
those functions for your own use, so we err on the safe side and always keep
them.
0.56¶
"Moose::init_meta" should now be called as a method.
New modules for extension writers, Moose::Exporter and Moose::Util::MetaRole.
0.55_01¶
Implemented metaclass traits (and wrote a recipe for it):
use Moose -traits => 'Foo'
This should make writing small Moose extensions a little easier.
0.55¶
Fixed "coerce" to accept anon types just like "subtype" can.
So that you can do:
coerce $some_anon_type => from 'Str' => via { ... };
0.51¶
Added "BUILDARGS", a new step in "Moose::Object->new()".
0.49¶
Fixed how the "is => (ro|rw)" works with custom defined
"reader", "writer" and "accessor" options. See
the below table for details:
is => ro, writer => _foo # turns into (reader => foo, writer => _foo)
is => rw, writer => _foo # turns into (reader => foo, writer => _foo)
is => rw, accessor => _foo # turns into (accessor => _foo)
is => ro, accessor => _foo # error, accesor is rw
0.45¶
The "before/around/after" method modifiers now support regexp matching
of method names. NOTE: this only works for classes, it is currently not
supported in roles, but, ... patches welcome.
The "has" keyword for roles now accepts the same array ref form that
Moose.pm does for classes.
A trigger on a read-only attribute is no longer an error, as it's useful to
trigger off of the constructor.
Subtypes of parameterizable types now are parameterizable types themselves.
0.44¶
Fixed issue where "DEMOLISHALL" was eating the value in $@, and so not
working correctly. It still kind of eats them, but so does vanilla perl.
0.41¶
Inherited attributes may now be extended without restriction on the type ('isa',
'does').
The entire set of Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::* classes were refactored in this
release. If you were relying on their internals you should test your code
carefully.
0.40¶
Documenting the use of '+name' with attributes that come from recently composed
roles. It makes sense, people are using it, and so why not just officially
support it.
The "Moose::Meta::Class->create" method now supports roles.
It is now possible to make anonymous enum types by passing "enum" an
array reference instead of the "enum $name => @values".
0.37¶
Added the "make_immutable" keyword as a shortcut to calling
"make_immutable" on the meta object. This eventually got removed!
Made "init_arg => undef" work in Moose. This means "do not
accept a constructor parameter for this attribute".
Type errors now use the provided message. Prior to this release they didn't.
0.34¶
Moose is now a postmodern object system :)
The Role system was completely refactored. It is 100% backwards compat, but the
internals were totally changed. If you relied on the internals then you are
advised to test carefully.
Added method exclusion and aliasing for Roles in this release.
Added the Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::OptimizedConstraints module.
Passing a list of values to an accessor (which is only expecting one value) used
to be silently ignored, now it throws an error.
0.26¶
Added parameterized types and did a pretty heavy refactoring of the type
constraint system.
Better framework extensibility and better support for "making your own
Moose".
0.25 or before¶
Honestly, you shouldn't be using versions of Moose that are this old, so many
bug fixes and speed improvements have been made you would be crazy to not
upgrade.
Also, I am tired of going through the Changelog so I am stopping here, if anyone
would like to continue this please feel free.
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.