NAME¶

MooseX::Types::LoadableClass - ClassName type constraint with coercion to load the class.

SYNOPSIS¶

    package MyClass;
    use Moose;
    use MooseX::Types::LoadableClass qw/ LoadableClass /;
    has foobar_class => (
        is => 'ro',
        required => 1,
        isa => LoadableClass,
        coerce => 1,
    );
    MyClass->new(foobar_class => 'FooBar'); # FooBar.pm is loaded or an
                                            # exception is thrown.

DESCRIPTION¶

    use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
    my $tc = subtype as ClassName;
    coerce $tc, from Str, via { Class::MOP::load_class($_); $_ };

I've written those three lines of code quite a lot of times, in quite a lot of places. Now I don't have to.

TYPES EXPORTED¶

LoadableClass¶

A normal class / package.

LoadableRole¶

Like "LoadableClass", except the loaded package must be a Moose::Role.

AUTHORS¶

Tomas Doran (t0m) "<bobtfish@bobtfish.net>" Florian Ragwitz (rafl) "<rafl@debian.org>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

Copyright (c) 2010 the above named authors. Licensed under the same terms as perl itself.