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NAME

C3MethodDispatchOrder - An example attribute metaclass for changing to C3 method dispatch order

SYNOPSIS

  # a classic diamond inheritence graph 
  #
  #    <A>
  #   /   \
  # <B>   <C>
  #   \   /
  #    <D>
  
  package A;
  use metaclass 'C3MethodDispatchOrder';
  
  sub hello { return "Hello from A" }
  
  package B;
  use metaclass 'C3MethodDispatchOrder';
  B->meta->superclasses('A');
  
  package C;
  use metaclass 'C3MethodDispatchOrder';
  C->meta->superclasses('A');
  
  sub hello { return "Hello from C" }
  
  package D;
  use metaclass 'C3MethodDispatchOrder';
  D->meta->superclasses('B', 'C');
  
  print join ", " => D->meta->class_precedence_list; # prints C3 order D, B, C, A
  
  # later in other code ...
  
  print D->hello; # print 'Hello from C' instead of the normal 'Hello from A' 
  

DESCRIPTION

This is an example of how you could change the method dispatch order of a class using Class::MOP. Using the Algorithm::C3 module, this repleces the normal depth-first left-to-right perl dispatch order with the C3 method dispatch order (see the Algorithm::C3 or Class::C3 docs for more information about this).

This example could be used as a template for other method dispatch orders as well, all that is required is to write a the class_precedence_list method which will return a linearized list of classes to dispatch along.

AUTHORS

Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com>

Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2006-2008 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

http://www.iinteractive.com

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