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1 | =pod |
2 | |
3 | =head1 NAME |
4 | |
5 | Moose::Manual::Delta - Important Changes in Moose |
6 | |
7 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
8 | |
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9 | This documents any important or noteworthy changes in Moose, with a |
10 | focus on backwards. This does duplicate data from the F<Changes> file, |
11 | but aims to provide more details and when possible workarounds. |
12 | |
13 | Besides helping keep up with changes, you can also use this document |
14 | for finding the lowest version of Moose that supported a given |
15 | feature. If you encounter a problem and have a solution but don't see |
16 | it documented here, or think we missed an important feature, please |
17 | send us a patch. |
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18 | |
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19 | =head1 0.93 |
20 | |
21 | =over 4 |
22 | |
23 | =item Calling $object->new() is no longer deprecated |
24 | |
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25 | We decided to undeprecate this. Now it just works. |
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26 | |
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27 | =item C<get_attribute_map> is deprecated |
28 | |
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29 | The metaclass method C<get_attribute_map> was never meant to be public. All |
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30 | C<get_*_methods> were deprecated, and the work around if you still need the |
31 | functionality they provided is to iterate over the list of names manually. |
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32 | |
33 | my %fields = map { $_ => $meta->get_attribute($_) } $meta->get_attribute_list; |
34 | |
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35 | =back |
36 | |
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37 | =head1 0.90 |
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38 | |
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39 | =over 4 |
40 | |
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41 | =item Added Native delegation for Code refs |
42 | |
43 | See L<Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code> for details. |
44 | |
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45 | =item Calling $object->new() is deprecated |
46 | |
47 | Moose has long supported this, but it's never really been documented, and we |
48 | don't think this is a good practice. If you want to construct an object from |
49 | an existing object, you should provide some sort of alternate constructor like |
50 | C<< $object->clone >>. |
51 | |
52 | Calling C<< $object->new >> now issues a warning, and will be an error in a |
53 | future release. |
54 | |
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55 | =item Moose no longer warns if you call C<make_immutable> for a class with mutable ancestors |
56 | |
57 | While in theory this is a good thing to warn about, we found so many |
58 | exceptions to this that doing this properly became quite problematic. |
59 | |
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60 | =back |
61 | |
62 | =head1 Version 0.89_02 |
63 | |
64 | =over 4 |
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65 | |
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66 | =item New Native delegation methods from L<List::Util> and L<List::MoreUtils> |
67 | |
68 | In particular, we now have C<reduce>, C<shuffle>, C<uniq>, and C<natatime>. |
69 | |
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70 | =item The Moose::Exporter with_caller feature is now deprecated |
71 | |
72 | Use C<with_meta> instead. The C<with_caller> option will start warning in a |
73 | future release. |
74 | |
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75 | =item Moose now warns if you call C<make_immutable> for a class with mutable ancestors |
76 | |
77 | This is dangerous because modifying a class after a subclass has been |
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78 | immutabilized will lead to incorrect results in the subclass, due to inlining, |
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79 | caching, etc. This occasionally happens accidentally, when a class loads one |
80 | of its subclasses in the middle of its class definition, so pointing out that |
81 | this may cause issues should be helpful. Metaclasses (classes that inherit |
82 | from L<Class::MOP::Object>) are currently exempt from this check, since at the |
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83 | moment we aren't very consistent about which metaclasses we immutabilize. |
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84 | |
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85 | =item C<enum> and C<duck_type> now take arrayrefs for all forms |
86 | |
87 | Previously, calling these functions with a list would take the first element of |
88 | the list as the type constraint name, and use the remainder as the enum values |
89 | or method names. This makes the interface inconsistent with the anon-type forms |
90 | of these functions (which must take an arrayref), and a free-form list where |
91 | the first value is sometimes special is hard to validate (and harder to give |
92 | reasonable error messages for). These functions have been changed to take |
93 | arrayrefs in all their forms - so, C<< enum 'My::Type' => [qw(foo bar)] >> is |
94 | now the preferred way to create an enum type constraint. The old syntax still |
95 | works for now, but it will hopefully be deprecated and removed in a future |
96 | release. |
97 | |
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98 | =back |
99 | |
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100 | =head1 Version 0.89_01 |
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101 | |
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102 | L<Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native> has been moved into the Moose core from |
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103 | L<MooseX::AttributeHelpers>. Major changes include: |
104 | |
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105 | =over 4 |
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106 | |
107 | =item C<traits>, not C<metaclass> |
108 | |
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109 | Method providers are only available via traits. |
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110 | |
111 | =item C<handles>, not C<provides> or C<curries> |
112 | |
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113 | The C<provides> syntax was like core Moose C<< handles => HASHREF >> |
114 | syntax, but with the keys and values reversed. This was confusing, |
115 | and AttributeHelpers now uses C<< handles => HASHREF >> in a way that |
116 | should be intuitive to anyone already familiar with how it is used for |
117 | other attributes. |
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118 | |
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119 | The C<curries> functionality provided by AttributeHelpers has been |
120 | generalized to apply to all cases of C<< handles => HASHREF >>, though |
121 | not every piece of functionality has been ported (currying with a |
122 | CODEREF is not supported). |
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123 | |
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124 | =item C<empty> is now C<is_empty>, and means empty, not non-empty |
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125 | |
126 | Previously, the C<empty> method provided by Arrays and Hashes returned true if |
127 | the attribute was B<not> empty (no elements). Now it returns true if the |
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128 | attribute B<is> empty. It was also renamed to C<is_empty>, to reflect this. |
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129 | |
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130 | =item C<find> was renamed to C<first>, and C<first> and C<last> were removed |
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131 | |
132 | L<List::Util> refers to the functionality that we used to provide under C<find> |
133 | as L<first|List::Util/first>, so that will likely be more familiar (and will |
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134 | fit in better if we decide to add more List::Util functions). C<first> and |
135 | C<last> were removed, since their functionality is easily duplicated with |
136 | curries of C<get>. |
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137 | |
138 | =item Helpers that take a coderef of one argument now use C<$_> |
139 | |
140 | Subroutines passed as the first argument to C<first>, C<map>, and C<grep> now |
141 | receive their argument in C<$_> rather than as a parameter to the subroutine. |
142 | Helpers that take a coderef of two or more arguments remain using the argument |
143 | list (there are technical limitations to using C<$a> and C<$b> like C<sort> |
144 | does). |
145 | |
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146 | See L<Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native> for the new documentation. |
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147 | |
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148 | =back |
149 | |
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150 | The C<alias> and C<excludes> role parameters have been renamed to C<-alias> |
151 | and C<-excludes>. The old names still work, but new code should use the new |
152 | names, and eventually the old ones will be deprecated and removed. |
153 | |
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154 | =head1 Version 0.89 |
155 | |
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156 | C<< use Moose -metaclass => 'Foo' >> now does alias resolution, just like |
157 | C<-traits> (and the C<metaclass> and C<traits> options to C<has>). |
158 | |
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159 | Added two functions C<meta_class_alias> and C<meta_attribute_alias> to |
160 | L<Moose::Util>, to simplify aliasing metaclasses and metatraits. This is |
161 | a wrapper around the old |
162 | |
163 | package Moose::Meta::Class::Custom::Trait::FooTrait; |
164 | sub register_implementation { 'My::Meta::Trait' } |
165 | |
166 | way of doing this. |
167 | |
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168 | =head1 Version 0.84 |
169 | |
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170 | When an attribute generates I<no> accessors, we now warn. This is to help |
171 | users who forget the C<is> option. If you really do not want any accessors, |
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172 | you can use C<< is => 'bare' >>. You can maintain back compat with older |
173 | versions of Moose by using something like: |
174 | |
175 | ($Moose::VERSION >= 0.84 ? is => 'bare' : ()) |
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176 | |
177 | When an accessor overwrites an existing method, we now warn. To work around |
178 | this warning (if you really must have this behavior), you can explicitly |
179 | remove the method before creating it as an accessor: |
180 | |
181 | sub foo {} |
182 | |
183 | __PACKAGE__->meta->remove_method('foo'); |
184 | |
185 | has foo => ( |
186 | is => 'ro', |
187 | ); |
188 | |
189 | When an unknown option is passed to C<has>, we now warn. You can silence |
190 | the warning by fixing your code. :) |
191 | |
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192 | The C<Role> type has been deprecated. On its own, it was useless, |
193 | since it just checked C<< $object->can('does') >>. If you were using |
194 | it as a parent type, just call C<role_type('Role::Name')> to create an |
195 | appropriate type instead. |
196 | |
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197 | =head1 Version 0.78 |
198 | |
199 | C<use Moose::Exporter;> now imports C<strict> and C<warnings> into packages |
200 | that use it. |
201 | |
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202 | =head1 Version 0.77 |
203 | |
204 | C<DEMOLISHALL> and C<DEMOLISH> now receive an argument indicating whether or |
205 | not we are in global destruction. |
206 | |
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207 | =head1 Version 0.76 |
208 | |
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209 | Type constraints no longer run coercions for a value that already matches the |
210 | constraint. This may affect some (arguably buggy) edge case coercions that |
211 | rely on side effects in the C<via> clause. |
212 | |
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213 | =head1 Version 0.75 |
214 | |
215 | L<Moose::Exporter> now accepts the C<-metaclass> option for easily |
216 | overriding the metaclass (without L<metaclass>). This works for classes |
217 | and roles. |
218 | |
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219 | =head1 Version 0.74 |
220 | |
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221 | Added a C<duck_type> sugar function to L<Moose::Util::TypeConstraints> |
222 | to make integration with non-Moose classes easier. It simply checks if |
223 | C<< $obj->can() >> a list of methods. |
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224 | |
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225 | A number of methods (mostly inherited from L<Class::MOP>) have been |
226 | renamed with a leading underscore to indicate their internal-ness. The |
227 | old method names will still work for a while, but will warn that the |
228 | method has been renamed. In a few cases, the method will be removed |
229 | entirely in the future. This may affect MooseX authors who were using |
230 | these methods. |
231 | |
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232 | =head1 Version 0.73 |
233 | |
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234 | Calling C<subtype> with a name as the only argument now throws an |
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235 | exception. If you want an anonymous subtype do: |
236 | |
237 | my $subtype = subtype as 'Foo'; |
238 | |
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239 | This is related to the changes in version 0.71_01. |
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240 | |
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241 | The C<is_needed> method in L<Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor> is now |
242 | only usable as a class method. Previously, it worked as a class or |
243 | object method, with a different internal implementation for each |
244 | version. |
245 | |
246 | The internals of making a class immutable changed a lot in Class::MOP |
247 | 0.78_02, and Moose's internals have changed along with it. The |
248 | external C<< $metaclass->make_immutable >> method still works the same |
249 | way. |
250 | |
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251 | =head1 Version 0.72 |
252 | |
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253 | A mutable class accepted C<< Foo->new(undef) >> without complaint, |
254 | while an immutable class would blow up with an unhelpful error. Now, |
255 | in both cases we throw a helpful error instead. |
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256 | |
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257 | This "feature" was originally added to allow for cases such as this: |
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258 | |
259 | my $args; |
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260 | |
261 | if ( something() ) { |
262 | $args = {...}; |
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263 | } |
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264 | |
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265 | return My::Class->new($args); |
266 | |
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267 | But we decided this is a bad idea and a little too magical, because it |
268 | can easily mask real errors. |
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269 | |
270 | =head1 Version 0.71_01 |
271 | |
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272 | Calling C<type> or C<subtype> without the sugar helpers (C<as>, |
273 | C<where>, C<message>) is now deprecated. |
274 | |
275 | As a side effect, this meant we ended up using Perl prototypes on |
276 | C<as>, and code like this will no longer work: |
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277 | |
278 | use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints; |
279 | use Declare::Constraints::Simple -All; |
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280 | |
281 | subtype 'ArrayOfInts' |
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282 | => as 'ArrayRef' |
283 | => IsArrayRef(IsInt); |
284 | |
285 | Instead it must be changed to this: |
286 | |
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287 | subtype( |
288 | 'ArrayOfInts' => { |
289 | as => 'ArrayRef', |
290 | where => IsArrayRef(IsInt) |
291 | } |
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292 | ); |
293 | |
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294 | If you want to maintain backwards compat with older versions of Moose, |
295 | you must explicitly test Moose's C<VERSION>: |
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296 | |
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297 | if ( Moose->VERSION < 0.71_01 ) { |
298 | subtype 'ArrayOfInts' |
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299 | => as 'ArrayRef' |
300 | => IsArrayRef(IsInt); |
301 | } |
302 | else { |
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303 | subtype( |
304 | 'ArrayOfInts' => { |
305 | as => 'ArrayRef', |
306 | where => IsArrayRef(IsInt) |
307 | } |
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308 | ); |
309 | } |
310 | |
311 | =head1 Version 0.70 |
312 | |
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313 | We no longer pass the meta-attribute object as a final argument to |
314 | triggers. This actually changed for inlined code a while back, but the |
315 | non-inlined version and the docs were still out of date. |
316 | |
317 | If by some chance you actually used this feature, the workaround is |
318 | simple. You fetch the attribute object from out of the C<$self> |
319 | that is passed as the first argument to trigger, like so: |
320 | |
321 | has 'foo' => ( |
322 | is => 'ro', |
323 | isa => 'Any', |
324 | trigger => sub { |
325 | my ( $self, $value ) = @_; |
326 | my $attr = $self->meta->find_attribute_by_name('foo'); |
327 | |
328 | # ... |
329 | } |
330 | ); |
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331 | |
332 | =head1 Version 0.66 |
333 | |
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334 | If you created a subtype and passed a parent that Moose didn't know |
335 | about, it simply ignored the parent. Now it automatically creates the |
336 | parent as a class type. This may not be what you want, but is less |
337 | broken than before. |
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338 | |
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339 | You could declare a name with subtype such as "Foo!Bar". Moose would |
340 | accept this allowed, but if you used it in a parameterized type such |
341 | as "ArrayRef[Foo!Bar]" it wouldn't work. We now do some vetting on |
342 | names created via the sugar functions, so that they can only contain |
343 | alphanumerics, ":", and ".". |
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344 | |
345 | =head1 Version 0.65 |
346 | |
347 | Methods created via an attribute can now fulfill a C<requires> |
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348 | declaration for a role. Honestly we don't know why Stevan didn't make |
349 | this work originally, he was just insane or something. |
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350 | |
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351 | Stack traces from inlined code will now report the line and file as |
352 | being in your class, as opposed to in Moose guts. |
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353 | |
354 | =head1 Version 0.62_02 |
355 | |
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356 | When a class does not provide all of a role's required methods, the |
357 | error thrown now mentions all of the missing methods, as opposed to |
358 | just the first missing method. |
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359 | |
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360 | Moose will no longer inline a constructor for your class unless it |
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361 | inherits its constructor from Moose::Object, and will warn when it |
362 | doesn't inline. If you want to force inlining anyway, pass |
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363 | C<< replace_constructor => 1 >> to C<make_immutable>. |
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364 | |
365 | If you want to get rid of the warning, pass C<< inline_constructor => |
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366 | 0 >>. |
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367 | |
368 | =head1 Version 0.62 |
369 | |
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370 | Removed the (deprecated) C<make_immutable> keyword. |
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371 | |
372 | Removing an attribute from a class now also removes delegation |
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373 | (C<handles>) methods installed for that attribute. This is correct |
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374 | behavior, but if you were wrongly relying on it you might get bit. |
375 | |
376 | =head1 Version 0.58 |
377 | |
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378 | Roles now add methods by calling C<add_method>, not |
379 | C<alias_method>. They make sure to always provide a method object, |
380 | which will be cloned internally. This means that it is now possible to |
381 | track the source of a method provided by a role, and even follow its |
382 | history through intermediate roles. This means that methods added by |
383 | a role now show up when looking at a class's method list/map. |
384 | |
385 | Parameter and Union args are now sorted, this makes Int|Str the same |
386 | constraint as Str|Int. Also, incoming type constraint strings are |
387 | normalized to remove all whitespace differences. This is mostly for |
388 | internals and should not affect outside code. |
389 | |
390 | L<Moose::Exporter> will no longer remove a subroutine that the |
391 | exporting package re-exports. Moose re-exports the Carp::confess |
392 | function, among others. The reasoning is that we cannot know whether |
393 | you have also explicitly imported those functions for your own use, so |
394 | we err on the safe side and always keep them. |
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395 | |
396 | =head1 Version 0.56 |
397 | |
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398 | C<Moose::init_meta> should now be called as a method. |
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399 | |
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400 | New modules for extension writers, L<Moose::Exporter> and |
401 | L<Moose::Util::MetaRole>. |
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402 | |
403 | =head1 Version 0.55_01 |
404 | |
405 | Implemented metaclass traits (and wrote a recipe for it): |
406 | |
407 | use Moose -traits => 'Foo' |
408 | |
409 | This should make writing small Moose extensions a little |
410 | easier. |
411 | |
412 | =head1 Version 0.55 |
413 | |
414 | Fixed C<coerce> to accept anon types just like C<subtype> can. |
415 | So that you can do: |
416 | |
417 | coerce $some_anon_type => from 'Str' => via { ... }; |
418 | |
419 | =head1 Version 0.51 |
420 | |
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421 | Added C<BUILDARGS>, a new step in C<< Moose::Object->new() >>. |
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422 | |
423 | =head1 Version 0.49 |
424 | |
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425 | Fixed how the C<< is => (ro|rw) >> works with custom defined |
426 | C<reader>, C<writer> and C<accessor> options. See the below table for |
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427 | details: |
428 | |
429 | is => ro, writer => _foo # turns into (reader => foo, writer => _foo) |
430 | is => rw, writer => _foo # turns into (reader => foo, writer => _foo) |
431 | is => rw, accessor => _foo # turns into (accessor => _foo) |
432 | is => ro, accessor => _foo # error, accesor is rw |
433 | |
434 | =head1 Version 0.45 |
435 | |
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436 | The C<before/around/after> method modifiers now support regexp |
437 | matching of method names. NOTE: this only works for classes, it is |
438 | currently not supported in roles, but, ... patches welcome. |
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439 | |
0f13f53c |
440 | The C<has> keyword for roles now accepts the same array ref form that |
441 | L<Moose>.pm does for classes. |
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442 | |
0f13f53c |
443 | A trigger on a read-only attribute is no longer an error, as it's |
444 | useful to trigger off of the constructor. |
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445 | |
0f13f53c |
446 | Subtypes of parameterizable types now are parameterizable types |
447 | themselves. |
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448 | |
449 | =head1 Version 0.44 |
450 | |
0f13f53c |
451 | Fixed issue where C<DEMOLISHALL> was eating the value in C<$@>, and so |
452 | not working correctly. It still kind of eats them, but so does vanilla |
453 | perl. |
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454 | |
455 | =head1 Version 0.41 |
456 | |
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457 | Inherited attributes may now be extended without restriction on the |
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458 | type ('isa', 'does'). |
459 | |
0f13f53c |
460 | The entire set of Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::* classes were |
461 | refactored in this release. If you were relying on their internals you |
462 | should test your code carefully. |
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463 | |
464 | =head1 Version 0.40 |
465 | |
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466 | Documenting the use of '+name' with attributes that come from recently |
467 | composed roles. It makes sense, people are using it, and so why not |
468 | just officially support it. |
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469 | |
0f13f53c |
470 | The C<< Moose::Meta::Class->create >> method now supports roles. |
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471 | |
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472 | It is now possible to make anonymous enum types by passing C<enum> an |
473 | array reference instead of the C<< enum $name => @values >>. |
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474 | |
475 | =head1 Version 0.37 |
476 | |
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477 | Added the C<make_immutable> keyword as a shortcut to calling |
478 | C<make_immutable> on the meta object. This eventually got removed! |
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479 | |
0f13f53c |
480 | Made C<< init_arg => undef >> work in Moose. This means "do not accept |
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481 | a constructor parameter for this attribute". |
482 | |
0f13f53c |
483 | Type errors now use the provided message. Prior to this release they |
484 | didn't. |
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485 | |
486 | =head1 Version 0.34 |
487 | |
488 | Moose is now a postmodern object system :) |
489 | |
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490 | The Role system was completely refactored. It is 100% backwards |
491 | compat, but the internals were totally changed. If you relied on the |
492 | internals then you are advised to test carefully. |
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493 | |
494 | Added method exclusion and aliasing for Roles in this release. |
495 | |
0f13f53c |
496 | Added the L<Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::OptimizedConstraints> |
497 | module. |
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498 | |
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499 | Passing a list of values to an accessor (which is only expecting one |
500 | value) used to be silently ignored, now it throws an error. |
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501 | |
502 | =head1 Version 0.26 |
503 | |
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504 | Added parameterized types and did a pretty heavy refactoring of the |
505 | type constraint system. |
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506 | |
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507 | Better framework extendability and better support for "making your own |
508 | Moose". |
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509 | |
510 | =head1 Version 0.25 or before |
511 | |
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512 | Honestly, you shouldn't be using versions of Moose that are this old, |
513 | so many bug fixes and speed improvements have been made you would be |
514 | crazy to not upgrade. |
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515 | |
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516 | Also, I am tired of going through the Changelog so I am stopping here, |
517 | if anyone would like to continue this please feel free. |
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518 | |
519 | =head1 AUTHOR |
520 | |
521 | Stevan Little E<lt>stevan@iinteractive.comE<gt> |
522 | |
523 | =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE |
524 | |
525 | Copyright 2009 by Infinity Interactive, Inc. |
526 | |
527 | L<http://www.iinteractive.com> |
528 | |
529 | This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
530 | it under the same terms as Perl itself. |
531 | |
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532 | =cut |