my $class = shift;
my %options = @_;
- (exists $options{attribute})
+ ( exists $options{attribute} )
|| confess "You must supply an attribute to construct with";
- (blessed($options{attribute}) && $options{attribute}->isa('Moose::Meta::Attribute'))
- || confess "You must supply an attribute which is a 'Moose::Meta::Attribute' instance";
+ ( blessed( $options{attribute} )
+ && $options{attribute}->isa('Moose::Meta::Attribute') )
+ || confess
+ "You must supply an attribute which is a 'Moose::Meta::Attribute' instance";
- ($options{package_name} && $options{name})
- || confess "You must supply the package_name and name parameters $Class::MOP::Method::UPGRADE_ERROR_TEXT";
+ ( $options{package_name} && $options{name} )
+ || confess
+ "You must supply the package_name and name parameters $Class::MOP::Method::UPGRADE_ERROR_TEXT";
- my $self = $class->_new(\%options);
+ ( $options{delegate_to_method} && ( !ref $options{delegate_to_method} )
+ || ( 'CODE' eq ref $options{delegate_to_method} ) )
+ || confess
+ 'You must supply a delegate_to_method which is a method name or a CODE reference';
- weaken($self->{'attribute'});
+ my $self = $class->_new( \%options );
+
+ weaken( $self->{'attribute'} );
+
+ $self->_initialize_body;
return $self;
}
sub associated_attribute { (shift)->{'attribute'} }
+sub delegate_to_method { (shift)->{'delegate_to_method'} }
+
+sub _initialize_body {
+ my $self = shift;
+
+ my $method_to_call = $self->delegate_to_method;
+ return $self->{body} = $method_to_call
+ if ref $method_to_call;
+
+ my $accessor = $self->_get_delegate_accessor;
+
+ my $handle_name = $self->name;
+
+ # NOTE: we used to do a goto here, but the goto didn't handle
+ # failure correctly (it just returned nothing), so I took that
+ # out. However, the more I thought about it, the less I liked it
+ # doing the goto, and I prefered the act of delegation being
+ # actually represented in the stack trace. - SL
+ $self->{body} = sub {
+ my $instance = shift;
+ my $proxy = $instance->$accessor();
+ ( defined $proxy )
+ || $self->throw_error(
+ "Cannot delegate $handle_name to $method_to_call because "
+ . "the value of "
+ . $self->name
+ . " is not defined",
+ method_name => $method_to_call,
+ object => $instance
+ );
+ $proxy->$method_to_call(@_);
+ };
+}
+
+sub _get_delegate_accessor {
+ my $self = shift;
+
+ my $accessor = $self->associated_attribute->get_read_method_ref;
+
+ $accessor = $accessor->body if blessed $accessor;
+
+ return $accessor;
+}
+
1;
__END__
This must be an instance of C<Moose::Meta::Attribute> which this
accessor is being generated for. This paramter is B<required>.
+=item I<delegate_to_method>
+
+The method in the associated attribute's value to which we
+delegate. This can be either a method name or a code reference.
+
=back
=item B<associated_attribute>
Returns the attribute associated with this method.
+=item B<delegate_to_method>
+
+Returns the method to which this method delegates.
+
=back
=head1 BUGS