NAME

Class::PublicPrivate - Class with public keys with any name and a separate set of private keys

SYNOPSIS

PublicPrivate is intended for use as a base class for other classes. Users of class based on PublicPrivate can assign any keys to the object hash without interfering with keys used internally. The private data can be accessed by retrieving the private hash with the private method. For example, the following code outputs two different values, one for the public value of start and another for the private value of start.

 package ExtendedClass;
 use base 'Class::PublicPrivate';

 sub new{
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = $class->SUPER::new();
    my $private = $self->private;

    # initialize one of the private properties
    $private->{'start'}=time();

    return $self;
 }

 package main;
 my ($var);
 $var = ExtendedClass->new();
 $var->{'start'} = 1;

 print $var->{'start'}, "\n";
 print $var->private()->{'start'}, "\n";

INSTALLATION

Class::PublicPrivate can be installed with the usual routine:

 perl Makefile.PL
 make
 make test
 make install

METHODS

YourClass->new(classname ,[initikey1=>initvalue [, ...]])

Returns an instantiation of YourClass, where YourClass is a class that extends Class::PublicPrivate. Additional key=>value pairs are stored in the private hash. Programs that use your class can store any date directly in it w/o affecting the object's private data.

$ob->private()

Returns a reference to the hash of private data.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Copyright (c) 2015 by Miko O'Sullivan. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This software comes with NO WARRANTY of any kind.

AUTHOR

Miko O'Sullivan miko@idocs.com

VERSION

Version:

HISTORY

Version 0.80, June 29, 2002

First public release

Version 0.81 May 18, 2014

Minor tightening up of code. Fixed problems in packaging for CPAN.

Version 0.82 January 2, 2015

Minor tidying up code formatting and POD. Modifed tests to include test names. Modifed files to use Unix style newlines, and to be encoded UTF-8.