MooseX::Lexical::Types - automatically validate lexicals against Moose type constraints
version 0.01
use MooseX::Types::Moose qw/Int/; # import Int type constraint use MooseX::Lexical::Types qw/Int/; # register Int constraint as lexical type my Int $foo; # declare typed variable $foo = 42; # works $foo = 'bar'; # fails
This module allows you to automatically validate values assigned to lexical variables using Moose type constraints.
This can be done by importing all the MooseX::Types constraints you you need into your namespace and then registering them with MooseX::Lexical::Types. After that the type names may be used in declarations of lexical variables via my.
my
Values assigned to variables declared with type constraints will be checked against the type constraint.
At runtime the type exports will still return Moose::Meta::TypeConstraints.
Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
There are a couple of caveats:
Using normal strings as type constraints, like allowed in declaring type constraints for attributes with Moose, doesn't work.
Things like my Str @foo will not work.
my Str @foo
The type name specified after my needs to be a simple bareword. Things like my ArrayRef[Str] $foo will not work. You will need to declare a named for every type you want to use in my:
my ArrayRef[Str] $foo
subtype ArrayOfStr, as ArrayRef[Str]; my ArrayofStr $foo;
my Int $foo;
will not fail, even if $foo now holds the value undef, which wouldn't validate against Int. In the future this module might also validate the value on the first fetch from the variable to properly fail when using an uninitialized variable with a value that doesn't validate.
$foo
undef
Int
Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Florian Ragwitz.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.
To install MooseX::Lexical::Types, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm MooseX::Lexical::Types
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install MooseX::Lexical::Types
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.