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Name

Object::Relation::Meta::Method - Object::Relation object method introspection

Synopsis

  # Assuming MyThingy was generated by Object::Relation::Meta.
  my $class  = MyThingy->my_class;
  my $thingy = MyThingy->new;

  print "\nMethods:\n";
  for my $meth ($class->methods) {
      print "  o ", $meth->name, $/;
      $meth->call($thingy);
  }

Description

This class inherits from Class::Meta::Method to provide method metadata for Object::Relation classes. See the Class::Meta documentation for details on meta classes. See the "Instance Interface" section for the attributes added to Object::Relation::Meta::Method in addition to those defined by Class::Meta::Method.

Instance Interface

Accessor Methods

delegates_to

  my $delegates_to = $meth->delegates_to;

If the method transparently delegates to an object of another class, this method will return the Object::Relation::Meta::Class object describing that class. This method is implicitly set by Object::Relation::Meta for classes that either extend or mediate another class, or are a type of another class. In those cases, Object::Relation::Meta will create extra methods to delegate to the methods of the referenced or extended classes, and those methods will have their delegates_to methods set accordingly.

acts_as

  my $acts_as = $meth->acts_as;

If delegates_to() returns a Object::Relation::Meta::Class object representing the class of object to which the method delegates, acts_as() returns the Object::Relation::Meta::Method object to which this method corresponds. That is, this method acts as the method returned here.

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Kineticode, Inc. <info@obj_relode.com>

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