use strict;
use warnings;
-use Scalar::Util 'blessed';
use Carp 'confess';
+use Scalar::Util ();
use Class::MOP::Class;
use Class::MOP::Attribute;
use Class::MOP::Method;
-our $VERSION = '0.06';
-
-sub import {
- shift;
- return unless @_;
- if ($_[0] eq ':universal') {
- *UNIVERSAL::meta = sub {
- Class::MOP::Class->initialize(blessed($_[0]) || $_[0])
- };
- }
- else {
- my $pkg = caller();
- no strict 'refs';
- *{$pkg . '::' . $_[0]} = sub {
- Class::MOP::Class->initialize(blessed($_[0]) || $_[0])
- };
- }
-}
+use Class::MOP::Class::Immutable;
+
+our $VERSION = '0.33';
+our $AUTHORITY = 'cpan:STEVAN';
+
+## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+## Setting up our environment ...
+## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+## Class::MOP needs to have a few things in the global perl environment so
+## that it can operate effectively. Those things are done here.
+## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# ... nothing yet actually ;)
## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
## Bootstrapping
# any subclass of Class::MOP::* will be able to
# inherit them using &construct_instance
-## Class::MOP::Class
+## --------------------------------------------------------
+## Class::MOP::Package
-Class::MOP::Class->meta->add_attribute(
+Class::MOP::Package->meta->add_attribute(
Class::MOP::Attribute->new('$:package' => (
- reader => 'name',
+ reader => {
+ # NOTE: we need to do this in order
+ # for the instance meta-object to
+ # not fall into meta-circular death
+ 'name' => sub { (shift)->{'$:package'} }
+ },
init_arg => ':package',
))
);
+Class::MOP::Package->meta->add_attribute(
+ Class::MOP::Attribute->new('%:namespace' => (
+ reader => {
+ 'namespace' => sub { (shift)->{'%:namespace'} }
+ },
+ default => sub {
+ my ($class) = @_;
+ no strict 'refs';
+ return \%{$class->name . '::'};
+ },
+ # NOTE:
+ # protect this from silliness
+ init_arg => '!............( DO NOT DO THIS )............!',
+ ))
+);
+
+# NOTE:
+# use the metaclass to construct the meta-package
+# which is a superclass of the metaclass itself :P
+Class::MOP::Package->meta->add_method('initialize' => sub {
+ my $class = shift;
+ my $package_name = shift;
+ $class->meta->new_object(':package' => $package_name, @_);
+});
+
+## --------------------------------------------------------
+## Class::MOP::Module
+
+# NOTE:
+# yeah this is kind of stretching things a bit,
+# but truthfully the version should be an attribute
+# of the Module, the weirdness comes from having to
+# stick to Perl 5 convention and store it in the
+# $VERSION package variable. Basically if you just
+# squint at it, it will look how you want it to look.
+# Either as a package variable, or as a attribute of
+# the metaclass, isn't abstraction great :)
+
+Class::MOP::Module->meta->add_attribute(
+ Class::MOP::Attribute->new('$:version' => (
+ reader => {
+ 'version' => sub {
+ my $self = shift;
+ ${$self->get_package_symbol('$VERSION')};
+ }
+ },
+ # NOTE:
+ # protect this from silliness
+ init_arg => '!............( DO NOT DO THIS )............!',
+ ))
+);
+
+# NOTE:
+# By following the same conventions as version here,
+# we are opening up the possibility that people can
+# use the $AUTHORITY in non-Class::MOP modules as
+# well.
+
+Class::MOP::Module->meta->add_attribute(
+ Class::MOP::Attribute->new('$:authority' => (
+ reader => {
+ 'authority' => sub {
+ my $self = shift;
+ ${$self->get_package_symbol('$AUTHORITY')};
+ }
+ },
+ # NOTE:
+ # protect this from silliness
+ init_arg => '!............( DO NOT DO THIS )............!',
+ ))
+);
+
+## --------------------------------------------------------
+## Class::MOP::Class
+
Class::MOP::Class->meta->add_attribute(
Class::MOP::Attribute->new('%:attributes' => (
- reader => 'get_attribute_map',
+ reader => {
+ # NOTE: we need to do this in order
+ # for the instance meta-object to
+ # not fall into meta-circular death
+ 'get_attribute_map' => sub { (shift)->{'%:attributes'} }
+ },
init_arg => ':attributes',
default => sub { {} }
))
))
);
+Class::MOP::Class->meta->add_attribute(
+ Class::MOP::Attribute->new('$:instance_metaclass' => (
+ reader => {
+ # NOTE: we need to do this in order
+ # for the instance meta-object to
+ # not fall into meta-circular death
+ 'instance_metaclass' => sub { (shift)->{'$:instance_metaclass'} }
+ },
+ init_arg => ':instance_metaclass',
+ default => 'Class::MOP::Instance',
+ ))
+);
+
+# NOTE:
+# we don't actually need to tie the knot with
+# Class::MOP::Class here, it is actually handled
+# within Class::MOP::Class itself in the
+# construct_class_instance method.
+
+## --------------------------------------------------------
## Class::MOP::Attribute
Class::MOP::Attribute->meta->add_attribute(
Class::MOP::Attribute->new('name' => (
- reader => 'name'
+ reader => {
+ # NOTE: we need to do this in order
+ # for the instance meta-object to
+ # not fall into meta-circular death
+ 'name' => sub { (shift)->{name} }
+ }
))
);
Class::MOP::Attribute->meta->add_attribute(
Class::MOP::Attribute->new('associated_class' => (
- reader => 'associated_class'
+ reader => {
+ # NOTE: we need to do this in order
+ # for the instance meta-object to
+ # not fall into meta-circular death
+ 'associated_class' => sub { (shift)->{associated_class} }
+ }
))
);
);
Class::MOP::Attribute->meta->add_attribute(
+ Class::MOP::Attribute->new('clearer' => (
+ reader => 'clearer',
+ predicate => 'has_clearer',
+ ))
+);
+
+Class::MOP::Attribute->meta->add_attribute(
Class::MOP::Attribute->new('init_arg' => (
reader => 'init_arg',
predicate => 'has_init_arg',
|| confess "You must provide a name for the attribute";
$options{init_arg} = $name
if not exists $options{init_arg};
+
+ (Class::MOP::Attribute::is_default_a_coderef(\%options))
+ || confess("References are not allowed as default values, you must ".
+ "wrap then in a CODE reference (ex: sub { [] } and not [])")
+ if exists $options{default} && ref $options{default};
# return the new object
$class->meta->new_object(name => $name, %options);
});
Class::MOP::Attribute->meta->add_method('clone' => sub {
- my $self = shift;
- $self->meta->clone_object($self, @_);
+ my $self = shift;
+ $self->meta->clone_object($self, @_);
});
+## --------------------------------------------------------
+## Now close all the Class::MOP::* classes
+
+Class::MOP::Package ->meta->make_immutable(inline_constructor => 0);
+Class::MOP::Module ->meta->make_immutable(inline_constructor => 0);
+Class::MOP::Class ->meta->make_immutable(inline_constructor => 0);
+Class::MOP::Attribute->meta->make_immutable(inline_constructor => 0);
+Class::MOP::Method ->meta->make_immutable(inline_constructor => 0);
+Class::MOP::Instance ->meta->make_immutable(inline_constructor => 0);
+Class::MOP::Object ->meta->make_immutable(inline_constructor => 0);
+
1;
__END__
made for these tools to keep to the spirit of the Perl 5 object
system that we all know and love.
+This documentation is admittedly sparse on details, as time permits
+I will try to improve them. For now, I suggest looking at the items
+listed in the L<SEE ALSO> section for more information. In particular
+the book "The Art of the Meta Object Protocol" was very influential
+in the development of this system.
+
=head2 What is a Meta Object Protocol?
A meta object protocol is an API to an object system.
it does nothing to affect your existing code. So you only pay for
what you actually use.
+=head2 About Metaclass compatibility
+
+This module makes sure that all metaclasses created are both upwards
+and downwards compatible. The topic of metaclass compatibility is
+highly esoteric and is something only encountered when doing deep and
+involved metaclass hacking. There are two basic kinds of metaclass
+incompatibility; upwards and downwards.
+
+Upwards metaclass compatibility means that the metaclass of a
+given class is either the same as (or a subclass of) all of the
+class's ancestors.
+
+Downward metaclass compatibility means that the metaclasses of a
+given class's anscestors are all either the same as (or a subclass
+of) that metaclass.
+
+Here is a diagram showing a set of two classes (C<A> and C<B>) and
+two metaclasses (C<Meta::A> and C<Meta::B>) which have correct
+metaclass compatibility both upwards and downwards.
+
+ +---------+ +---------+
+ | Meta::A |<----| Meta::B | <....... (instance of )
+ +---------+ +---------+ <------- (inherits from)
+ ^ ^
+ : :
+ +---------+ +---------+
+ | A |<----| B |
+ +---------+ +---------+
+
+As I said this is a highly esoteric topic and one you will only run
+into if you do a lot of subclassing of B<Class::MOP::Class>. If you
+are interested in why this is an issue see the paper
+I<Uniform and safe metaclass composition> linked to in the
+L<SEE ALSO> section of this document.
+
+=head2 Using custom metaclasses
+
+Always use the metaclass pragma when using a custom metaclass, this
+will ensure the proper initialization order and not accidentely
+create an incorrect type of metaclass for you. This is a very rare
+problem, and one which can only occur if you are doing deep metaclass
+programming. So in other words, don't worry about it.
+
=head1 PROTOCOLS
The protocol is divided into 3 main sub-protocols:
=back
+=head2 Papers
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Uniform and safe metaclass composition
+
+An excellent paper by the people who brought us the original Traits paper.
+This paper is on how Traits can be used to do safe metaclass composition,
+and offers an excellent introduction section which delves into the topic of
+metaclass compatibility.
+
+L<http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Duca05ySafeMetaclassTrait.pdf>
+
+=item Safe Metaclass Programming
+
+This paper seems to precede the above paper, and propose a mix-in based
+approach as opposed to the Traits based approach. Both papers have similar
+information on the metaclass compatibility problem space.
+
+L<http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/37617.html>
+
+=back
+
=head2 Prior Art
=over 4
not the same thing as modules like L<Class::Accessor> and
L<Class::MethodMaker>. That being said there are very few modules on CPAN
with similar goals to this module. The one I have found which is most
-like this module is L<Class::Meta>, although it's philosophy is very
-different from this module.
-
-To start with, it provides wrappers around common Perl data types, and even
-extends those types with more specific subtypes. This module does not
-go into that area at all.
-
-L<Class::Meta> also seems to create it's own custom meta-object protocol,
-which is both more restrictive and more featureful than the vanilla
-Perl 5 one. This module attempts to model the existing Perl 5 MOP as it is.
-
-It's introspection capabilities also seem to be heavily rooted in this
-custom MOP, so that you can only introspect classes which are already
-created with L<Class::Meta>. This module does not make such restictions.
-
-Now, all this said, L<Class::Meta> is much more featureful than B<Class::MOP>
-would ever try to be. But B<Class::MOP> has some features which L<Class::Meta>
-could not easily implement. It would be very possible to completely re-implement
-L<Class::Meta> using B<Class::MOP> and bring some of these features to
-L<Class::Meta> though.
-
-But in the end, this module's admitedly ambitious goals have no direct equal
-on CPAN since surely no one has been crazy enough to try something as silly
-as this ;) until now.
+like this module is L<Class::Meta>, although it's philosophy and the MOP it
+creates are very different from this modules.
=head1 BUGS
exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug
to cpan-RT.
+=head1 CODE COVERAGE
+
+I use L<Devel::Cover> to test the code coverage of my tests, below is the
+L<Devel::Cover> report on this module's test suite.
+
+ ---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
+ File stmt bran cond sub pod time total
+ ---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
+ Class/MOP.pm 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 n/a 19.8 100.0
+ Class/MOP/Attribute.pm 100.0 100.0 91.7 61.2 100.0 14.3 87.9
+ Class/MOP/Class.pm 97.6 91.3 77.3 98.4 100.0 56.4 93.2
+ Class/MOP/Instance.pm 91.1 75.0 33.3 91.7 100.0 6.8 90.7
+ Class/MOP/Method.pm 97.6 60.0 52.9 76.9 100.0 1.6 82.6
+ metaclass.pm 100.0 100.0 83.3 100.0 n/a 1.0 97.7
+ ---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
+ Total 97.5 88.5 75.5 82.8 100.0 100.0 91.2
+ ---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
+
=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
=over 4
=back
-=head1 AUTHOR
+=head1 AUTHORS
Stevan Little E<lt>stevan@iinteractive.comE<gt>
+Yuval Kogman E<lt>nothingmuch@woobling.comE<gt>
+
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.