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NAME

Badger::Data::Type - base class for data types

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a base class for data types.

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

name

An optional name for the data type.

namespace

An optional namespace for the data type.

base

An optional base data type.

facets

An optional list of validation facets.

METHODS

The following methods are defined in addition to those inherited from the Badger::Base base class.

init()

This is aliased to the init_type() method.

init_type($config)

This is the initialisation method for a data type. It is called automatically when a data type object is created via the new() method inherited from the Badger::Base base class.

name()

Returns the name of the data type as specified via the name configuration option. If no name was specified then an automatically generated name is returned based on the class name with the Badger::Data::Type prefix removed and all :: sequences replaced with periods, e.g. a data type Badger::Data::Type::Foo::Bar would yield a name of Foo.Bar.

namespace()

Returns the namespace for the data type, or undef is none is defined.

base()

Returns the base data type, or undef is none is defined.

facets()

Returns a reference to a list of validation facets defined for the data type.

simple()

This constant method always returns the value 0. Subclasses representing simple data types should re-define this to return the value 1.

complex()

This constant method always returns the value 0. Subclasses representing complex data types should re-define this to return the value 1.

constrain($facet, @args)

Applies a new validation facet to the data type.

validate($value_ref)

Validates the value passed by reference as the first argument. It calls the validate() method of each of the validation facets in turn.

AUTHOR

Andy Wardley http://wardley.org/

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Badger::Base