NAME

MooseX::Meta::TypeConstraint::ForceCoercion - Force coercion when validating type constraints

VERSION

version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

use MooseX::Types:::Moose qw/Str Any/;
use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
use MooseX::Meta::TypeConstraint::ForceCoercion;

# get any type constraint
my $tc = Str;

# declare one or more coercions for it
coerce $tc,
    from Any,
    via { ... };

# wrap the $tc to force coercion
my $coercing_tc = MooseX::Meta::TypeConstraint::ForceCoercion->new(
    type_constraint => $tc,
);

# check a value against new type constraint. this will run the type
# coercions for the wrapped type, even if the value already passes
# validation before coercion. it will fail if the value couldn't be
# coerced
$coercing_tc->check('Affe');

DESCRIPTION

This class allows to wrap any Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint in a way that will force coercion of the value when checking or validating a value against it.

ATTRIBUTES

type_constraint

The type constraint to wrap. All methods except for validate and check are delegated to the value of this attribute.

METHODS

check ($value)

Same as Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::check, except it will always try to coerce $value before checking it against the actual type constraint. If coercing fails the check will fail, too.

validate ($value, $coerced_ref?)

Same as Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::validate, except it will always try to coerce $value before validating it against the actual type constraint. If coercing fails the validation will fail, too.

If coercion was successful and a $coerced_ref references was passed, the coerced value will be stored in that.

AUTHOR

Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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.