NAME

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

VERSION

version 0.013

SYNOPSIS

    package MyClass;
    use Moose;
    use MooseX::Types::LoadableClass qw/ LoadableClass /;

    has foobar_class => (
        is => 'ro',
        required => 1,
        isa => LoadableClass,
    );

    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 $tc, from Str, via { Class::Load::load_class($_); $_ };

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.

AUTHOR

Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

CONTRIBUTORS

Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
Сергей Романов <sromanov@cpan.org>