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.