NAME

Mojo::Base - Minimal base class for Mojo projects

SYNOPSIS

  package Cat;
  use Mojo::Base -base;

  has name => 'Nyan';
  has [qw(birds mice)] => 2;

  package Tiger;
  use Mojo::Base 'Cat';

  has friend  => sub { Cat->new };
  has stripes => 42;

  package main;
  use Mojo::Base -strict;

  my $mew = Cat->new(name => 'Longcat');
  say $mew->mice;
  say $mew->mice(3)->birds(4)->mice;

  my $rawr = Tiger->new(stripes => 23, mice => 0);
  say $rawr->tap(sub { $_->friend->name('Tacgnol') })->mice;

DESCRIPTION

Mojo::Base is a simple base class for Mojo projects.

  # Automatically enables "strict", "warnings", "utf8" and Perl 5.10 features
  use Mojo::Base -strict;
  use Mojo::Base -base;
  use Mojo::Base 'SomeBaseClass';

All three forms save a lot of typing.

  # use Mojo::Base -strict;
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use utf8;
  use feature ':5.10';
  use IO::Handle ();

  # use Mojo::Base -base;
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use utf8;
  use feature ':5.10';
  use IO::Handle ();
  use Mojo::Base;
  push @ISA, 'Mojo::Base';
  sub has { Mojo::Base::attr(__PACKAGE__, @_) }

  # use Mojo::Base 'SomeBaseClass';
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use utf8;
  use feature ':5.10';
  use IO::Handle ();
  require SomeBaseClass;
  push @ISA, 'SomeBaseClass';
  use Mojo::Base;
  sub has { Mojo::Base::attr(__PACKAGE__, @_) }

FUNCTIONS

Mojo::Base exports the following functions if imported with the -base flag or a base class.

has

  has 'name';
  has [qw(name1 name2 name3)];
  has name => 'foo';
  has name => sub {...};
  has [qw(name1 name2 name3)] => 'foo';
  has [qw(name1 name2 name3)] => sub {...};

Create attributes for hash-based objects, just like the attr method.

METHODS

Mojo::Base implements the following methods.

new

  my $object = BaseSubClass->new;
  my $object = BaseSubClass->new(name => 'value');
  my $object = BaseSubClass->new({name => 'value'});

This base class provides a basic constructor for hash-based objects. You can pass it either a hash or a hash reference with attribute values.

attr

  $object->attr('name');
  BaseSubClass->attr('name');
  BaseSubClass->attr([qw(name1 name2 name3)]);
  BaseSubClass->attr(name => 'foo');
  BaseSubClass->attr(name => sub {...});
  BaseSubClass->attr([qw(name1 name2 name3)] => 'foo');
  BaseSubClass->attr([qw(name1 name2 name3)] => sub {...});

Create attribute accessor for hash-based objects, an array reference can be used to create more than one at a time. Pass an optional second argument to set a default value, it should be a constant or a callback. The callback will be executed at accessor read time if there's no set value. Accessors can be chained, that means they return their invocant when they are called with an argument.

tap

  $object = $object->tap(sub {...});

K combinator, tap into a method chain to perform operations on an object within the chain. The object will be the first argument passed to the callback and is also available as $_.

DEBUGGING

You can set the MOJO_BASE_DEBUG environment variable to get some advanced diagnostics information printed to STDERR.

  MOJO_BASE_DEBUG=1

SEE ALSO

Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, http://mojolicio.us.