Moose::Cookbook::Roles::Recipe2 - Advanced Role Composition - method exclusion and aliasing
package Restartable; use Moose::Role; has 'is_paused' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Bool', default => 0, ); requires 'save_state', 'load_state'; sub stop { ... } sub start { ... } package Restartable::ButUnreliable; use Moose::Role; with 'Restartable' => { alias => { stop => '_stop', start => '_start' } }; sub stop { my $self = shift; $self->explode() if rand(1) > .5; $self->_stop(); } sub start { my $self = shift; $self->explode() if rand(1) > .5; $self->_start(); } package Restartable::ButBroken; use Moose::Role; with 'Restartable' => { excludes => [ 'stop', 'start' ] }; sub stop { my $self = shift; $self->explode(); } sub start { my $self = shift; $self->explode(); }
Sometimes when you include a role in a class, you may want to leave out some of its methods. In this example, we have a role Restartable which provides an is_paused attribute, and two methods, stop and start. The implementation of those two methods is irrelevant.
Restartable
is_paused
stop
start
Then we have two more roles which also implement the same interface, each putting their own spin on the stop and start method.
In the Restartable::ButUnreliable role, we want to provide a new implementation of stop and start, but still have access to the original implementation. To do this, we alias the methods from Restartable to private methods, and provide wrappers around the originals (1).
Restartable::ButUnreliable
In the Restartable::ButBroken role, we want to provide an entirely new behavior for stop and start, so we exclude them when composing the Restartable role into Restartable::ButBroken.
Restartable::ButBroken
It's worth noting that the excludes parameter also accepts a single string as an argument if you just want to exclude one method.
excludes
Method exclusion and renaming can come in handy, especially when building roles out of other roles. In this example, all of our roles implement the Restartable role. Each role provides same API, but each has a different implementation under the hood.
You can also use the method aliasing and excluding features when composing a role into a class.
The mention of wrapper should tell you that we could do the same thing using method modifiers, but for the sake of this example, we don't.
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
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