NAME

Moose::Manual::Delta - Important Changes in Moose

DESCRIPTION

This documents any important or noteworthy changes in Moose, with a focus on backwards. This does duplicate data from the Changes file, but aims to provide more details and when possible workarounds.

Besides helping keep up with changes, you can also use this document for finding the lowest version of Moose that supported a given feature. If you encounter a problem and have a solution but don't see it documented here, or think we missed an important feature, please send us a patch.

0.90

Added Native delegation for Code refs

See Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code for details.

Calling $object->new() is deprecated

Moose has long supported this, but it's never really been documented, and we don't think this is a good practice. If you want to construct an object from an existing object, you should provide some sort of alternate constructor like $object->clone.

Calling $object->new now issues a warning, and will be an error in a future release.

Moose no longer warns if you call make_immutable for a class with mutable ancestors

While in theory this is a good thing to warn about, we found so many exceptions to this that doing this properly became quite problematic.

Version 0.89_02

New Native delegation methods from List::Util and List::MoreUtils

In particular, we now have reduce, shuffle, uniq, and natatime.

The Moose::Exporter with_caller feature is now deprecated

Use with_meta instead. The with_caller option will start warning in a future release.

Moose now warns if you call make_immutable for a class with mutable ancestors

This is dangerous because modifying a class after a subclass has been immutabilized will lead to incorrect results in the subclass, due to inlining, caching, etc. This occasionally happens accidentally, when a class loads one of its subclasses in the middle of its class definition, so pointing out that this may cause issues should be helpful. Metaclasses (classes that inherit from Class::MOP::Object) are currently exempt from this check, since at the moment we aren't very consistent about which metaclasses we immutabilize.

Version 0.89_01

Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native has been moved into the Moose core from MooseX::AttributeHelpers. Major changes include:

traits, not metaclass

Method providers are only available via traits.

handles, not provides or curries

The provides syntax was like core Moose handles => HASHREF syntax, but with the keys and values reversed. This was confusing, and AttributeHelpers now uses handles => HASHREF in a way that should be intuitive to anyone already familiar with how it is used for other attributes.

The curries functionality provided by AttributeHelpers has been generalized to apply to all cases of handles => HASHREF, though not every piece of functionality has been ported (currying with a CODEREF is not supported).

empty is now is_empty, and means empty, not non-empty

Previously, the empty method provided by Arrays and Hashes returned true if the attribute was not empty (no elements). Now it returns true if the attribute is empty. It was also renamed to is_empty, to reflect this.

find was renamed to first, and first and last were removed

List::Util refers to the functionality that we used to provide under find as first, so that will likely be more familiar (and will fit in better if we decide to add more List::Util functions). first and last were removed, since their functionality is easily duplicated with curries of get.

Helpers that take a coderef of one argument now use $_

Subroutines passed as the first argument to first, map, and grep now receive their argument in $_ rather than as a parameter to the subroutine. Helpers that take a coderef of two or more arguments remain using the argument list (there are technical limitations to using $a and $b like sort does).

See Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native for the new documentation.

The alias and excludes role parameters have been renamed to -alias and -excludes. The old names still work, but new code should use the new names, and eventually the old ones will be deprecated and removed.

Version 0.89

use Moose -metaclass => 'Foo' now does alias resolution, just like -traits (and the metaclass and traits options to has).

Added two functions meta_class_alias and meta_attribute_alias to Moose::Util, to simplify aliasing metaclasses and metatraits. This is a wrapper around the old

  package Moose::Meta::Class::Custom::Trait::FooTrait;
  sub register_implementation { 'My::Meta::Trait' }

way of doing this.

Version 0.84

When an attribute generates no accessors, we now warn. This is to help users who forget the is option. If you really do not want any accessors, you can use is => 'bare'. You can maintain back compat with older versions of Moose by using something like:

    ($Moose::VERSION >= 0.84 ? is => 'bare' : ())

When an accessor overwrites an existing method, we now warn. To work around this warning (if you really must have this behavior), you can explicitly remove the method before creating it as an accessor:

    sub foo {}

    __PACKAGE__->meta->remove_method('foo');

    has foo => (
        is => 'ro',
    );

When an unknown option is passed to has, we now warn. You can silence the warning by fixing your code. :)

The Role type has been deprecated. On its own, it was useless, since it just checked $object->can('does'). If you were using it as a parent type, just call role_type('Role::Name') to create an appropriate type instead.

Version 0.78

use Moose::Exporter; now imports strict and warnings into packages that use it.

Version 0.77

DEMOLISHALL and DEMOLISH now receive an argument indicating whether or not we are in global destruction.

Version 0.76

Type constraints no longer run coercions for a value that already matches the constraint. This may affect some (arguably buggy) edge case coercions that rely on side effects in the via clause.

Version 0.75

Moose::Exporter now accepts the -metaclass option for easily overriding the metaclass (without metaclass). This works for classes and roles.

Version 0.74

Added a duck_type sugar function to Moose::Util::TypeConstraints to make integration with non-Moose classes easier. It simply checks if $obj->can() a list of methods.

A number of methods (mostly inherited from Class::MOP) have been renamed with a leading underscore to indicate their internal-ness. The old method names will still work for a while, but will warn that the method has been renamed. In a few cases, the method will be removed entirely in the future. This may affect MooseX authors who were using these methods.

Version 0.73

Calling subtype with a name as the only argument now throws an exception. If you want an anonymous subtype do:

    my $subtype = subtype as 'Foo';

This is related to the changes in version 0.71_01.

The is_needed method in Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor is now only usable as a class method. Previously, it worked as a class or object method, with a different internal implementation for each version.

The internals of making a class immutable changed a lot in Class::MOP 0.78_02, and Moose's internals have changed along with it. The external $metaclass->make_immutable method still works the same way.

Version 0.72

A mutable class accepted Foo->new(undef) without complaint, while an immutable class would blow up with an unhelpful error. Now, in both cases we throw a helpful error instead.

This "feature" was originally added to allow for cases such as this:

  my $args;

  if ( something() ) {
      $args = {...};
  }

  return My::Class->new($args);

But we decided this is a bad idea and a little too magical, because it can easily mask real errors.

Version 0.71_01

Calling type or subtype without the sugar helpers (as, where, message) is now deprecated.

As a side effect, this meant we ended up using Perl prototypes on as, and code like this will no longer work:

  use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
  use Declare::Constraints::Simple -All;

  subtype 'ArrayOfInts'
      => as 'ArrayRef'
      => IsArrayRef(IsInt);

Instead it must be changed to this:

  subtype(
      'ArrayOfInts' => {
          as    => 'ArrayRef',
          where => IsArrayRef(IsInt)
      }
  );

If you want to maintain backwards compat with older versions of Moose, you must explicitly test Moose's VERSION:

  if ( Moose->VERSION < 0.71_01 ) {
      subtype 'ArrayOfInts'
          => as 'ArrayRef'
          => IsArrayRef(IsInt);
  }
  else {
      subtype(
          'ArrayOfInts' => {
              as    => 'ArrayRef',
              where => IsArrayRef(IsInt)
          }
      );
  }

Version 0.70

We no longer pass the meta-attribute object as a final argument to triggers. This actually changed for inlined code a while back, but the non-inlined version and the docs were still out of date.

If by some chance you actually used this feature, the workaround is simple. You fetch the attribute object from out of the $self that is passed as the first argument to trigger, like so:

  has 'foo' => (
      is      => 'ro',
      isa     => 'Any',
      trigger => sub {
          my ( $self, $value ) = @_;
          my $attr = $self->meta->find_attribute_by_name('foo');

          # ...
      }
  );

Version 0.66

If you created a subtype and passed a parent that Moose didn't know about, it simply ignored the parent. Now it automatically creates the parent as a class type. This may not be what you want, but is less broken than before.

You could declare a name with subtype such as "Foo!Bar". Moose would accept this allowed, but if you used it in a parameterized type such as "ArrayRef[Foo!Bar]" it wouldn't work. We now do some vetting on names created via the sugar functions, so that they can only contain alphanumerics, ":", and ".".

Version 0.65

Methods created via an attribute can now fulfill a requires declaration for a role. Honestly we don't know why Stevan didn't make this work originally, he was just insane or something.

Stack traces from inlined code will now report the line and file as being in your class, as opposed to in Moose guts.

Version 0.62_02

When a class does not provide all of a role's required methods, the error thrown now mentions all of the missing methods, as opposed to just the first missing method.

Moose will no longer inline a constructor for your class unless it inherits its constructor from Moose::Object, and will warn when it doesn't inline. If you want to force inlining anyway, pass replace_constructor => 1 to make_immutable.

If you want to get rid of the warning, pass inline_constructor => 0.

Version 0.62

Removed the (deprecated) make_immutable keyword.

Removing an attribute from a class now also removes delegation (handles) methods installed for that attribute. This is correct behavior, but if you were wrongly relying on it you might get bit.

Version 0.58

Roles now add methods by calling add_method, not alias_method. They make sure to always provide a method object, which will be cloned internally. This means that it is now possible to track the source of a method provided by a role, and even follow its history through intermediate roles. This means that methods added by a role now show up when looking at a class's method list/map.

Parameter and Union args are now sorted, this makes Int|Str the same constraint as Str|Int. Also, incoming type constraint strings are normalized to remove all whitespace differences. This is mostly for internals and should not affect outside code.

Moose::Exporter will no longer remove a subroutine that the exporting package re-exports. Moose re-exports the Carp::confess function, among others. The reasoning is that we cannot know whether you have also explicitly imported those functions for your own use, so we err on the safe side and always keep them.

Version 0.56

Moose::init_meta should now be called as a method.

New modules for extension writers, Moose::Exporter and Moose::Util::MetaRole.

Version 0.55_01

Implemented metaclass traits (and wrote a recipe for it):

  use Moose -traits => 'Foo'

This should make writing small Moose extensions a little easier.

Version 0.55

Fixed coerce to accept anon types just like subtype can. So that you can do:

  coerce $some_anon_type => from 'Str' => via { ... };

Version 0.51

Added BUILDARGS, a new step in Moose::Object->new().

Version 0.49

Fixed how the is => (ro|rw) works with custom defined reader, writer and accessor options. See the below table for details:

  is => ro, writer => _foo    # turns into (reader => foo, writer => _foo)
  is => rw, writer => _foo    # turns into (reader => foo, writer => _foo)
  is => rw, accessor => _foo  # turns into (accessor => _foo)
  is => ro, accessor => _foo  # error, accesor is rw

Version 0.45

The before/around/after method modifiers now support regexp matching of method names. NOTE: this only works for classes, it is currently not supported in roles, but, ... patches welcome.

The has keyword for roles now accepts the same array ref form that Moose.pm does for classes.

A trigger on a read-only attribute is no longer an error, as it's useful to trigger off of the constructor.

Subtypes of parameterizable types now are parameterizable types themselves.

Version 0.44

Fixed issue where DEMOLISHALL was eating the value in $@, and so not working correctly. It still kind of eats them, but so does vanilla perl.

Version 0.41

Inherited attributes may now be extended without restriction on the type ('isa', 'does').

The entire set of Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::* classes were refactored in this release. If you were relying on their internals you should test your code carefully.

Version 0.40

Documenting the use of '+name' with attributes that come from recently composed roles. It makes sense, people are using it, and so why not just officially support it.

The Moose::Meta::Class->create method now supports roles.

It is now possible to make anonymous enum types by passing enum an array reference instead of the enum $name => @values.

Version 0.37

Added the make_immutable keyword as a shortcut to calling make_immutable on the meta object. This eventually got removed!

Made init_arg => undef work in Moose. This means "do not accept a constructor parameter for this attribute".

Type errors now use the provided message. Prior to this release they didn't.

Version 0.34

Moose is now a postmodern object system :)

The Role system was completely refactored. It is 100% backwards compat, but the internals were totally changed. If you relied on the internals then you are advised to test carefully.

Added method exclusion and aliasing for Roles in this release.

Added the Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::OptimizedConstraints module.

Passing a list of values to an accessor (which is only expecting one value) used to be silently ignored, now it throws an error.

Version 0.26

Added parameterized types and did a pretty heavy refactoring of the type constraint system.

Better framework extendability and better support for "making your own Moose".

Version 0.25 or before

Honestly, you shouldn't be using versions of Moose that are this old, so many bug fixes and speed improvements have been made you would be crazy to not upgrade.

Also, I am tired of going through the Changelog so I am stopping here, if anyone would like to continue this please feel free.

AUTHOR

Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2009 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.