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MooseX-CascadeClearing-0.04
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NAME

MooseX::CascadeClearing - Cascade clearer actions across attributes

VERSION

Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

    use Moose;
    use MooseX::CascadeClearing;

    has master => (
        is              => 'rw',
        isa             => 'Str',
        lazy_build      => 1,
        is_clear_master => 1,
    );

    my @opts = (
        is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', clear_master => 'master', lazy_build => 1,
    );

    has sub1 => @opts; 
    has sub2 => @opts;
    has sub3 => @opts;

    sub _build_sub1 { shift->master . "1" }
    sub _build_sub2 { shift->master . "2" }
    sub _build_sub3 { shift->master . "3" }

    sub some_sub {
        # ... 

        # clear master, sub[123] in one fell swoop
        $self->clear_master;

    }

DESCRIPTION

MooseX::CascadeClearing does the necessary metaclass fiddling to allow an clearing one attribute to be cascaded through to other attributes as well, calling their clearers.

The intended purpose of this is to assist in situations where the value of one attribute is derived from the value of another attribute -- say a situation where the secondary value is expensive to derive and is thus lazily built. A change to the primary attribute's value would invalidate the secondary value and as such the secondary should be cleared. While it could be argued that this is trivial to do manually for a few attributes, once we consider subclassing and adding in roles the ability to "auto-clear", as it were, is a valuable trait. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

CAVEAT

We don't yet trigger a cascade clear on a master attribute's value being set through a setter/accessor accessor. This will likely be available as an option in the not-too-distant-future.

ATTRIBUTE OPTIONS

We install an attribute metaclass trait that provides two additional atttribute options, as well as wraps the generated clearer method for a designated "master" attribute. By default, use'ing this module causes this trait to be installed for all attributes in the package.

is_clear_master => (0|1)

If set to 1, we wrap this attribute's clearer with a sub that looks for other attributes to clear.

clear_master => Str

Marks this attribute as one that should be cleared when the named attribute's clearer is called. Note that no checking is done to ensure that the named master is actually an attribute in the class.

AUTHOR

Chris Weyl, <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-moosex-cascadeclearing at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=MooseX-CascadeClearing. I will be notified, and then you'llautomatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc MooseX::CascadeClearing

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

MooseX::AlwaysCoerce, for inspiring me to do this in a slightly more sane fashion than I was previously.

And of course the Moose team, who have made my life significantly easier (and more fun!) since 0.17 :)

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2009, Chris Weyl <cweyl@alumni.drew.edu>.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS OR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the

    Free Software Foundation, Inc., 
    59 Temple Place, Suite 330, 
    Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA