NAME

Types::TypeTiny - type constraints used internally by Type::Tiny

STATUS

This module is covered by the Type-Tiny stability policy.

The BoolLike type is currently unstable.

DESCRIPTION

Dogfooding.

This isn't a real Type::Library-based type library; that would involve too much circularity. But it exports some type constraints which, while designed for use within Type::Tiny, may be more generally useful.

Types

• StringLike

  Accepts strings and objects overloading stringification.

• BoolLike

  Accepts undef, "", 0, 1; accepts any blessed object overloading "bool"; accepts any blessed object overloading "0+" to return 0 or 1. (Needs to actually call the overloaded operation to check that.)

  Warning: an object which overloads "0+" without also turning on overload fallbacks may actually be useless as a practical boolean. But some common objects such as JSON::PP's booleans overload "0+" instead of overloading "bool" (thankfully with fallbacks enabled!) so we do need to support this.

  The intention of this type is to be a version of Bool which also accepts common boolean objects such as JSON::PP::Boolean. It is currently unstable and the exact definition of the type may change to better implement that intended functionality.

• HashLike[`a]

  Accepts hashrefs and objects overloading hashification.

  Since Types::TypeTiny 1.012, may be parameterized with another type constraint like HashLike[Int].

• ArrayLike[`a]

  Accepts arrayrefs and objects overloading arrayfication.

  Since Types::TypeTiny 1.012, may be parameterized with another type constraint like ArrayLike[Int].

• CodeLike

  Accepts coderefs and objects overloading codification.

• TypeTiny

  Accepts blessed Type::Tiny objects.

• _ForeignTypeConstraint

  Any reference which to_TypeTiny recognizes as something that can be coerced to a Type::Tiny object.

  Yes, the underscore is included.

Coercion Functions

to_TypeTiny($constraint)

Promotes (or "demotes" if you prefer) a "foreign" type constraint to a Type::Tiny object. Can handle:

• Moose types (including Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint objects and MooseX::Types::TypeDecorator objects).

• Mouse types (including Mouse::Meta::TypeConstraint objects).

• Validation::Class and Validation::Class::Simple objects.

• Types built using Type::Library::Compiler.

• Any object which provides check and get_message methods. (This includes Specio and Type::Nano types.) If the object provides has_coercion and coerce methods, these will be used to handle quoting. If the object provides can_be_inlined and inline_check methods, these will be used to handling inlining. If the object provides a name method, this will be assumed to return the type name.

• Coderefs (but not blessed coderefs or objects overloading &{} unless they provide the methods described above!) Coderefs are expected to return true iff $_ passes the constraint. If $_ fails the type constraint, they may either return false, or die with a helpful error message.

• Sub::Quote-enabled coderefs. These are handled the same way as above, but Type::Tiny will consult Sub::Quote to determine if they can be inlined.

Methods

These are implemented so that Types::TypeTiny->meta->get_type($foo) works, for rough compatibility with a real Type::Library type library.

meta

type_names

get_type($name)

has_type($name)

coercion_names

get_coercion($name)

has_coercion($name)

BUGS

Please report any bugs to https://github.com/tobyink/p5-type-tiny/issues.

SEE ALSO

Type::Tiny.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014, 2017-2023 by Toby Inkster.

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.