NAME

Bubblegum::Object::Universal - Common Methods for Operating on Defined Values

VERSION

version 0.09

SYNOPSIS

    use Bubblegum;

    my $thing = 0;
    $thing->instance; # bless({'data' => 0}, 'Bubblegum::Object::Instance')

DESCRIPTION

Universal methods work on variables whose data meets the criteria for being defined.

METHODS

instance

    my $thing = 0;
    $thing->instance; # bless({'data' => 0}, 'Bubblegum::Object::Instance')

    my $data = $thing->instance->data; # 0

The instance method blesses the subject into a generic container class, Bubblegum::Object::Instance, and returns an instance. Please see Bubblegum::Object::Instance for more information.

wrapper

    my $thing = [1,0];
    $thing->wrapper('json'); # same as ...
    $thing->json; # bless({'data' => [1,0]}, 'Bubblegum::Wrapper::Json')

    my $json = $thing->json->encode; # [1,0]

The wrapper method blesses the subject into a Bubblegum wrapper, a container class, which exists as an extension to the core data type methods, and returns an instance. Please see any one of the core Bubblegum wrappers, e.g., Bubblegum::Wrapper::Digest, Bubblegum::Wrapper::Dumper, Bubblegum::Wrapper::Encoder, Bubblegum::Wrapper::Json or Bubblegum::Wrapper::Yaml.

AUTHOR

Al Newkirk <anewkirk@ana.io>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Al Newkirk.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.