DISCLAIMER

                                  Class::Maker
                               ============

                ! THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE - DO NOT USE THIS MODULE !

            THIS SOFTWARE SHIPS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND

        Everything except the basic functionalities are still under constant
        reorganisation. Also major parts of the documentation are wrong or already
        outdated.

NAME

Class::Maker - classes, reflection, schemas, serialization, attribute- and multiple inheritance

VERSION

0.06 (Thu Dec 17 21:41:43 2009)

DESCRIPTION

AUDIENCE This package is for the intermediate-to-pro oo-perl programmer. While it has basicly similarities to Class::Struct and Class::MethodMaker, this package has significant differences and additional functionalities.

ATTRIBUTE INHERITANCE Because all attributes are accessible through accessors, they are following ISA inheritance / overloading as normal methods do.

MULTIPLE INHERITANCE Per default, Class::Maker cares for constructing all parent objects via its 'new' or '_init' constructors. It uses a trick to derive from even non Class::Maker classes correctly.

REFLECTION/CLASS INTROSPECTION Java-like reflection or recursive class introspectiong for methods/attribute/ triggers are available during runtime. This is helpfull for implementing persistance, serialization, class tree charting and some other nifty tricks.

OBJECT PERSISTANCE A recursive Tangram (see cpan) schema generator is also available, which significantly eases the use of object-persistance as long as you use Class::Maker classes and following some simple guidelines.

SYNOPSIS

  use Class::Maker qw(:all);

  class Something;

  class Person,
  {
     isa => [ 'Something' ],

     public =>
     {
       scalar => [qw( name age internal )],
     },

     private
     {
       int => [qw( internal )],
     },
  };

  sub Person::hello
  {
    my $this = shift;

    $this->_internal( 2123 ); # the private one

    printf "Here is %s and i am %d years old.\n",  $this->name, $this->age;
  };

  my $p = Person->new( name => Murat, age => 27 );

  $p->hello;

INSTALLATION

I highly recommend to use CPAN for one-stop-shop installation:

perl -MCPAN -e "install Class::Maker"

PREREQUISITES

Following modules get automatically installed via the CPAN module. See INSTALLATION above. Data::Type has a mechanism for delayed loading of modules. This means modules are loaded only when the used types require them, not all at once.

XML::LibXSLT (0)

Data::Dumper (0)

IO::Extended (0)

Error (0.15)

Algorithm::FastPermute (0.05)

Array::Compare (1.03)

READON

Visit the Class::Maker main documentation.

CONTACT

Please help to make life easier and send comments/suggestions/reports to http://rt.cpan.org or help with http://testers.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Murat Uenalan, <muenalan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT/LICENSE

(c) 2009 by Murat Uenalan. All rights reserved. Note: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself