1 Also see Moose::Manual::Delta for more details of, and workarounds
2 for, noteworthy changes.
8 * The optimize_as option for type constraints has been deprecated. Use the
9 inline_as option to provide inlining code instead. (Dave Rolsky)
11 2.0201 Fri, Jul 22, 2011
15 * Moose::Util::does_role shouldn't call ->does on things that don't inherit
18 * Make ->does initialize the metaclass, so that calling it as a class method
19 on a class which sets up inheritance via some method other than extends
20 works properly (this fixes an issue with MooseX::Types).
22 * Make Dist::CheckConflicts a runtime requirement, so moose-outdated always
25 2.0200 Mon, Jul 18, 2011
29 * No changes from 2.0105 (other than a few minor documentation tweaks).
31 2.0105-TRIAL Mon, Jun 27, 2011
35 * Moose::Util::does_role now respects overridden ->does methods. (doy)
37 2.0104-TRIAL Mon, Jun 20, 2011
41 * Include changes from 2.0010.
43 2.0103-TRIAL Mon, Jun 20, 2011
47 * Several things that have been deprecated for a while have been removed. See
48 the 2.0000 section in Moose::Manual::Delta for details.
52 * New Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::union function for creating union type
53 constraints without having to rely on the string type constraint parsing.
54 This also allows for creating unions of anonymous type constraints.
59 * Include changes from Moose 2.0009.
61 2.0102-TRIAL Sat, Jun 18, 2011
65 * The native Array trait now has a 'first_index' method, which works just
66 like the version in List::MoreUtils. (Karen Etheridge)
68 * Clean up some internal code to help out extensions.
72 * Include changes from Moose 2.0008.
74 2.0101-TRIAL Mon, Jun 06, 2011
78 * Various packaging issues.
80 2.0100-TRIAL Mon, Jun 06, 2011
84 * Using a hand-optimized type constraint is now deprecated. In keeping with
85 our release policy, this won't actually start warning until the 2.0200
90 * Type constraints can now provide inlined versions, which should make
91 inlined code which uses type constraints (such as accessors) faster. This
92 replaces the existing hand-optimized constraint feature. (Dave Rolsky)
96 * Remove a lot of cases where generated methods closed over meta objects.
97 Most simple cases should now only close over simple data types and
98 coderefs. This should make deparsing simpler.
100 2.0010 Mon, Jun 20, 2011
104 * Fix regression in 2.0009 and 2.0103 when applying roles during init_meta in
105 an exporter that also re-exports Moose or Moose::Role. (t0m, ilmari)
107 2.0009 Sun, Jun 19, 2011
111 * duck_type type constraints now report reasonable errors when given
112 something which isn't an instance of an object. (t0m)
114 * Moose::Util::apply_all_roles now works even if the applicant is a non-Moose
117 * When an object is reblessed, triggers are called on attributes that are
118 set during the reblessing. (Karen Etheridge).
122 * Better error message if Moose->init_meta is called with a 'metaclass'
123 option when that metaclass hasn't been loaded. (jasonmay)
125 2.0008 Thu, Jun 16, 2011
129 * The 'accessor' native delegation for hashrefs now allows setting the value
130 to undef. (sugoik, doy)
134 * Various generated methods have more useful context information. (doy)
136 2.0007 Sun, May 15, 2011
140 * Make sure weak attributes remain weak when cloning. (doy, rafl)
142 2.0006 Mon, May 09, 2011
146 * Revert the List::MoreUtils version bump, as it breaks backwards
147 compatibility. The dependency will be bumped with Moose 2.0200.
149 2.0005 Mon, May 09, 2011
153 * Only sort the alias keys when determining caching.
155 2.0004 Mon, May 09, 2011
159 * Bump the List::MoreUtils dep to avoid buggy behavior in old versions.
161 * Sort the list of roles and the alias and excludes parameters when
162 determining caching, since their order doesn't matter.
164 2.0003 Mon, May 09, 2011
168 * Applying multiple role objects (rather than role names) at once no longer
169 skips every other role. (rjbs)
171 * Caching of anon classes now works more sanely in the presence of role
172 application parameters - alias and excludes options are taken into account,
173 and caching is disabled entirely if other parameters exist. Asking for
174 caching (instead of just not weakening) when parameters are given will
175 begin warning in Moose 2.0200. (doy, autarch)
177 2.0002 Thu, Apr 28, 2011
181 * Provide definition context information for constructors and destructors, so
182 that they will show up as something other than "generated method (unknown
183 origin)". Also, add the package that accessors are defined in to their
186 * Use Devel::PartialDump in type constraint error messages, if it is
191 * Stop hiding warnings produced by throwing errors in DEMOLISH methods.
193 * The 'reset' native delegation for Counter attributes will now also respect
194 builders (previously, it only respected defaults).
196 2.0001 Fri, Apr 22, 2011
200 * Anonymous classes and roles now have a unified implementation in
201 Class::MOP::Package. This means that anonymous packages are now also
202 possible. (Shawn M Moore, doy)
206 * No longer call XSLoader from multiple places, as this causes issues on
207 older perls. (doy, ribasushi)
209 * Moose::Meta::Role->create now accepts the 'roles' parameter, as it was
210 documented to. (Chris Weyl)
212 * Depend on Eval::Closure 0.04, which fixes some issues in mod_perl
213 environments. (doy, mateu)
215 2.0000 Mon, Apr 11, 2011
219 * The RegexpRef type constraint now accepts regular expressions blessed into
220 other classes, such as those found in pluggable regexp engines.
221 Additionally the 'Object' constraint no longer rejects objects implemented
222 as a blessed regular expression. (David Leadbeater)
226 * Moose::Manual::Support now explicitly states when major releases are
227 allowed to happen (January, April, July, or October).
229 1.9906-TRIAL Mon, Apr 04, 2011
233 * Update conflicts list.
236 1.9905-TRIAL Mon, Mar 28, 2011
240 * The Moose::Meta::Role::Attribute class now has an original_role method
241 which returns the role which first defined an attribute. See the docs for
242 details. (Dave Rolsky)
244 * Moose::Util::MetaRole will make sure that the class to which you're
245 applying metaroles or base class roles can actually have them applied. If
246 not (it's not a Moose class, it has a non-Moose metaclass, etc.), then it
247 gives a useful error message. Previously, this would just end up dying in
248 the MetaRole code without a useful message. (Dave Rolsky)
252 * When a role had its own applied_attribute metaclass (usually from MetaRole
253 application), that metaclass would get lost when that role participated in
254 role composition. It was also lost if that role was consumed by some other
255 role. Both of these cases have been fixed. Attributes are always applied
256 with the applied_attribute metaclass of the role which originally defined
259 1.9904-TRIAL Fri, Mar 04, 2011
263 * Reinitializing anonymous roles used to accidentally clear out the role's
264 stash in some circumstances. This is now fixed. (doy)
266 * The Int type constraint now rejects integers with trailing newlines.
269 1.9903-TRIAL Mon, Feb 28, 2011
273 * Reverse the order that Moose::Exporter 'also' exports are dispatched. When
274 trying to re-export from a package that itself exported a modified set of
275 Moose sugar, you'd get the original Moose sugar instead of the overrides.
276 There are also now tests for this. (perigrin)
278 * Don't initialize lazy attributes with defaults in the constructor (for
279 immutable classes). (mo)
281 * When reinitializing meta objects for classes and roles, we failed to
282 preserve roles and role applications. This led to weird bugs. Many MooseX
283 modules end up reinitializing your class or role. (Dave Rolsky)
285 1.9902-TRIAL Mon, Jan 03, 2011
289 * Fix generation of CCFLAGS.
291 * Add a bit more Dist::Zilla functionality.
293 1.9901-TRIAL Mon, Jan 03, 2011
297 * Fix some indexing issues.
299 * Fix a few issues with the conflict checking stuff.
301 1.9900-TRIAL Sat, Jan 01, 2011
305 * The entire Class::MOP distribution has been merged with Moose. In the
306 future, the Class::MOP code itself will be merged into Moose, and
307 eventually the Class::MOP namespace will disappear entirely. For the
308 current release, we have simply changed how Class::MOP is
309 distributed. (Dave Rolsky).
311 * Switched to Dist::Zilla for development. However, we still have a minimal
312 Makefile.PL in the repository that can be used for development. (Dave
317 * Roles now have their own default attribute metaclass to use during
318 application to a class, rather than just using the class's
319 attribute_metaclass. This is also overridable via ::MetaRole, with the
320 applied_attribute key in the role_metaroles hashref (doy).
322 * The internal code used to generate inlined methods (accessor, constructor,
323 etc.) has been massively rewritten. MooseX modules that do inlining will
324 almost certainly need to be updated as well.
328 * We now load the roles needed for native delegations only as needed. This
329 speeds up the compilation time for Moose itself. (doy)
332 1.25 Fri, Apr 1, 2011
336 * Reinitializing anonymous roles used to accidentally clear out the role's
337 stash in some circumstances. This is now fixed. (doy) (backported from
341 1.24 Tue, Feb 24, 2011
345 * Reverse the order that Moose::Exporter 'also' exports are dispatched. When
346 trying to re-export from a package that itself exported a modified set of
347 Moose sugar, you'd get the original Moose sugar instead of the overrides.
348 There are also now tests for this. (perigrin) (backported from 1.9903)
351 1.23 Sun, Feb 13, 2011
355 * The 1.22 release had a bad MANIFEST. This has been fixed.
358 1.22 Sun, Feb 13, 2011
362 * When reinitializing meta objects for classes and roles, we failed to
363 preserve roles and role applications. This led to weird bugs. Many MooseX
364 modules end up reinitializing your class or role. (Dave Rolsky) (backported
367 1.21 Wed, Nov 24, 2010
371 * The Support manual has been updated to reflect our new major/minor version
372 policy. (Chris Prather)
374 * The Contributing manual has been updated to reflect workflow changes based
375 on this new support policy. (doy)
379 * The role attribute metaclass did not inherit from Class::MOP::Object,
380 which could cause errors when trying to resolve metaclass compatibility
381 issues. Reported by Daniel Ruoso. (doy)
383 * The lazy_build feature was accidentally removed from all the docs. Now
384 it's listed in Moose.pm again. (Chris Prather)
386 1.20 Fri, Nov 19, 2010
390 * When using native delegations, if an array or hash ref member failed a
391 type constraint check, Moose ended up erroring out with "Can't call method
392 "get_message" on unblessed reference" instead of generating a useful error
393 based on the failed type constraint. Reported by t0m. RT #63113. (Dave
396 1.19 Tue, Nov 2, 2010
400 * There was still one place in the code trying to load Test::Exception
401 instead of Test::Fatal. (Karen Etheridge)
404 1.18 Sun, Oct 31, 2010
408 * Type constraint objects now have an assert_coerce method which will either
409 return a valid value or throw an error. (rjbs)
411 * We now warn when an accessor for one attribute overwrites an accessor for
412 another attribute. RT #57510. (Dave Rolsky)
416 * The native Array and Hash delegation methods now coerce individual new
417 members if the _member type_ has a coercion. In other words, if the array
418 reference is defined as an ArrayRef[DateTime], and you've defined a
419 coercion from Int to DateTime, then pushing an integer via a delegation
420 method will coerce the integer to a DateTime object. Reported by Karen
421 Etheridge. RT #62351. (Dave Rolsky)
423 * An attribute using native delegations did not always properly coerce and
424 type check a lazily set default value. (doy and Dave Rolsky)
426 * Using a regexp to define delegations for a class which was not yet loaded
427 did not actually work, but did not explicitly fail. However, it caused an
428 error when the class was loaded later. Reported by Max Kanat-Alexander. RT
429 #60596. (Dave Rolsky)
431 * Attempting to delegate to a class or role which is not yet loaded will now
432 throw an explicit error. (Dave Rolsky)
434 * Attempting to set lazy_build in an inherited attribute was ignored. RT
439 * The Moose test suite now uses Test::Fatal instead of
440 Test::Exception. (rjbs)
442 1.17 Tue, Oct 19, 2010
446 * Make native delegation inlining work with instance metaclasses where slot
447 access is an do {} block, like Kioku. This fixes the use of native
448 delegations together with Kioku. (Scott, doy)
450 1.16 Mon, Oct 18, 2010
454 * Almost every native delegation method which changes the attribute value
455 now has an explicitly documented return value. In general, this return
456 value matches what Perl would return for the same operation. (Dave Rolsky)
458 * Lots of work on native delegation documentation, including documenting
459 what arguments each native delegation method allows or requires. (Dave
462 * Passing an odd number of args to ->new() now gives a more useful warning
463 than Perl's builtin warning. Suggested by Sir Robert Burbridge. (Dave
466 * Allow disabling stack traces by setting an environment variable. See
467 Moose::Error::Default for details. This feature is considered
468 experimental, and may change in a future release. (Marcus Ramberg)
470 * The deprecation warning for using alias and excludes without a leading
471 dash now tells you the role being applied and what it was being applied
476 * A number of native trait methods which expected strings as arguments did
477 not allow the empty string. This included Array->join, String->match,
478 String->replace, and String->substr. Reported by Whitney Jackson. RT
479 #61962. (Dave Rolsky)
481 * 'no Moose' no longer inadvertently removes imports it didn't create
482 itself. RT #60013. (Florian Ragwitz, doy)
484 * Roles now support passing an array reference of method names to method
485 modifier sugar functions. (doy)
487 * Native traits no longer use optimized inlining routines if the instance
488 requests it (in particular, if inline_get_slot_value doesn't return
489 something that can be assigned to). This should fix issues with
490 KiokuDB::Class. (doy)
492 * We now ignore all Class::MOP and Moose classes when determining what
493 package called a deprecated feature. This should make the deprecation
494 warnings saner, and make it possible to turn them off more easily. (Dave
497 * The deprecated "default is" warning no longer happens if the attribute has
498 any accessor method defined (accessor, reader, writer). Also, this warning
499 only happens when a method that was generated because of the "default is"
500 gets called, rather than when the attribute is defined. (Dave Rolsky)
502 * The "default default" code for some native delegations no longer issues a
503 deprecation warning when the attribute is required or has a builder. (Dave
506 * Setting a "default default" caused a fatal error if you used the builder
507 or lazy_build options for the attribute. Reported by Kent Fredric. RT
508 #59613. (Dave Rolsky)
510 1.15 Tue, Oct 5, 2010
514 * Major changes to Native Traits, most of which make them act more like
515 "normal" attributes. This should be mostly compatible with existing code,
516 but see Moose::Manual::Delta for details.
518 * A few native traits (String, Counter, Bool) provide default values of "is"
519 and "default" when you created an attribute. Allowing them to provide
520 these values is now deprecated. Supply the value yourself when creating
523 * New option 'trait_aliases' for Moose::Exporter, which will allow you to
524 generate non-global aliases for your traits (and allow your users to
525 rename the aliases, etc). (doy)
527 * 'use Moose' and 'use Moose::Role' now accept a '-meta_name' option, to
528 determine which name to install the 'meta' name under. Passing 'undef'
529 to this option will suppress generation of the meta method entirely. (doy)
531 * Moose now warns if it overwrites an existing method named "meta" in your
532 class when you "use Moose". (doy)
536 * Native Trait delegations are now all generated as inline code. This should
537 be much faster than the previous method of delegation. In the best case,
538 native trait methods will be very highly optimized.
540 * Reinitializing a metaclass no longer removes the existing method and
541 attribute objects (it instead fixes them so they are correct for the
542 reinitialized metaclass). This should make the order of loading many
543 MooseX modules less of an issue. (doy)
545 * The Moose::Manual docs have been revised and updated. (Dave Rolsky)
549 * If an attribute was weak, setting it to a non-ref value after the object
550 was constructed caused an error. Now we only call weaken when the new
551 value is a reference.
553 * t/040_type_constraints/036_match_type_operator.t failed on 5.13.5+. Fixed
554 based on a patch from Andreas Koenig.
556 1.14 Tue, Sep 21, 2010
560 * Work around what looks like a bug in List::MoreUtils::any. This bug caused
561 a weird error when defining the same union type twice, but only when using
562 MooseX::Types. Reported by Curtis Jewell. RT #61001. (Dave Rolsky)
564 1.13 Mon, Sep 13, 2010
568 * The deprecation warnings for alias and excludes are back, use -alias and
569 -excludes instead. (Dave Rolsky)
573 * When composing one role into another and there is an attribute conflict,
574 the error message now includes the attribute name. Reported by Sam
575 Graham. RT #59985. (Dave Rolsky)
577 * When a class is made immutable, the does_role method is overridden with a
578 much faster version that simply looks role names up in a hash. Code which
579 uses lots of role-based type constraints should be faster. (Dave Rolsky)
581 1.12 Sat, Aug 28, 2010
585 * Fix the MANIFEST. Fixes RT #60831, reported by Alberto Simões.
587 1.11 Fri, Aug 27, 2010
591 * An attribute in a subclass can now override the value of "is". (doy)
593 * The deprecation warnings for alias and excludes have been turned back off
594 for this release, to give other module authors a chance to tweak their
599 * mro::get_linear_isa was being called as a function rather than a method,
600 which caused problems with Perl 5.8.x. (t0m)
602 * Union types always created a type constraint, even if their constituent
603 constraints did not have any coercions. This bogus coercion always
604 returned undef, which meant that a union which included Undef as a member
605 always coerced bad values to undef. Reported by Eric Brine. RT
606 #58411. (Dave Rolsky)
608 * Union types with coercions would always fall back to coercing the value to
609 undef (unintentionally). Now if all the coercions for a union type fail,
610 the value returned by the coercion is the original value that we attempted
611 to coerce. (Dave Rolsky).
613 1.10 Sun, Aug 22, 2010
617 * The long-deprecated alias and excludes options for role applications now
618 issue a deprecation warning. Use -alias and -excludes instead. (Dave
623 * Inlined code no longer stringifies numeric attribute defaults. (vg, doy)
625 * default => undef now works properly. (doy)
627 * Enum type constraints now throw errors if their values are nonsensical.
632 * Optimizations that should help speed up compilation time (Dave Rolsky).
634 1.09 Tue, Jul 25, 2010
638 * You can no longer pass "coerce => 1" for an attribute unless its type
639 constraint has a coercion defined. Doing so will issue a deprecation
640 warning. (Dave Rolsky)
642 * Previously, '+foo' only allowed a specific set of options to be
643 overridden, which made it impossible to change attribute options related
644 to extensions. Now we blacklist some options, and anything else is
645 allowed. (doy, Tuomas Jormola)
647 * Most features which have been declared deprecated now issue a warning using
648 Moose::Deprecated. Warnings are issued once per calling package, not
649 repeatedly. See Moose::Deprecated for information on how you can shut
650 these warnings up entirely. Note that deprecated features will eventually
651 be removed, so shutting up the warnings may not be the best idea. (Dave
654 * Removed the long-deprecated Moose::Meta::Role->alias_method method. (Dave
659 * We no longer unimport strict and warnings when Moose, Moose::Role, or
660 Moose::Exporter are unimported. Doing this was broken if the user
661 explicitly loaded strict and warnings themself, and the results could be
662 generally surprising. We decided that it was best to err on the side of
663 safety and leave these on. Reported by David Wheeler. RT #58310. (Dave
666 * New with_traits helper function in Moose::Util. (doy)
670 * Accessors will no longer be inlined if the instance metaclass isn't
673 * Use Perl 5.10's new recursive regex features, if possible, for the type
674 constraint parser. (doy, nothingmuch)
678 * Attributes now warn if their accessors overwrite a locally defined
679 function (not just method). (doy)
683 * Bump our required perl version to 5.8.3, since earlier versions fail tests
684 and aren't easily installable/testable.
686 1.08 Tue, Jun 15, 2010
690 * Refactored a small amount of Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor to allow it
691 to be overridden more easily (doy).
693 1.07 Sat, Jun 05, 2010
697 * Fixed a minor metaclass compatibility fixing bug dealing with immutable
698 classes and non-class metaclass traits (doy, dougdude).
700 1.06 Tue, Jun 01, 2010
704 * Added '0+' overloading in Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint so that we can
705 more uniformly compare type constraints between 'classic' Moose type
706 constraints and MooseX::Types based type constraints.
708 1.05 Thu, May 20, 2010
712 * Packages and modules no longer have methods - this functionality was
713 moved back up into Moose::Meta::Class and Moose::Meta::Role individually
714 (through the Class::MOP::Mixin::HasMethods mixin) (doy).
716 * BUILDALL is now called by Moose::Meta::Class::new_object, rather than by
717 Moose::Object::new. (doy)
721 * strict and warnings are now unimported when Moose, Moose::Role, or
722 Moose::Exporter are unimported. (doy, Adam Kennedy)
724 * Added a 'consumers' method to Moose::Meta::Role for finding all
725 classes/roles which consume the given role. (doy)
729 * Fix has '+attr' in Roles to explode immediately, rather than when the role
730 is applied to a class (t0m).
732 * Fix type constraint validation messages to not include the string 'failed'
733 twice in the same sentence (Florian Ragwitz).
735 * New type constraints will default to being unequal, rather than equal
738 * The tests no longer check for perl's behavior of clobbering $@, which has
739 been fixed in perl-5.13.1 (Florian Ragwitz).
741 * Metaclass compatibility fixing has been completely rewritten, and should
742 be much more robust. (doy)
744 1.04 Thu, May 20, 2010
746 * This release was broken and has been deleted from CPAN shortly after its
749 1.03 Thu, May 06, 2010
753 * Allow specifying required versions when setting superclasses or applying
754 roles (Florian Ragwitz).
756 1.02 Sat, May 01, 2010
760 * Stop the natatime method provided by the native Array trait from returning
761 an exhausted iterator when being called with a callback. (Florian Ragwitz)
763 * Make Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class correctly reject RegexpRefs.
766 * Calling is_subtype_of on a Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class with itself or
767 the class the TC represents as an argument incorrectly returned true. This
768 behavior is correct for is_type_of, not is_subtype_of. (Guillermo Roditi)
770 * Use File::Temp for temp files created during tests. Previously, files were
771 written to the t/ dir, which could cause problems of the user running the
772 tests did not have write access to that directory.. (Chris Weyl, Ævar
775 * Pass role arguments along when applying roles to instances. (doy, lsm)
777 1.01 Fri, Mar 26, 2010
781 * The handles option now also accepts a role type constraint in addition to a
782 plain role name. (Florian Ragwitz)
786 * Record the Sartak/doy debt properly in Changes (perigrin)
788 1.00 Tue, Mar 25, 2010
792 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code no longer creates reader
793 methods by default. (Florian Ragwitz)
797 * Improve various parts of the documentation and fix many typos.
798 (Dave Rolsky, Mateu Hunter, Graham Knop, Robin V, Jay Hannah, Jesse Luehrs)
802 * Paid the $10 debt to doy from 0.80 Sat, Jun 6, 2009 (Sartak)
804 0.99 Mon, Mar 8, 2010
808 * New method find_type_for in Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union, for finding
809 which member of the union a given value validates for. (Cory Watson)
813 * DEMOLISH methods in mutable subclasses of immutable classes are now called
814 properly (Chia-liang Kao, Jesse Luehrs)
818 * Added Moose::Manual::Support that defines the support, compatiblity, and
819 release policies for Moose. (Chris Prather)
821 0.98 Wed, Feb 10, 2010
825 * An internals change in 0.97 broke role application to an instance in some
826 cases. The bug occurred when two different roles were applied to different
827 instances of the same class. (Rafael Kitover)
830 0.97 Tue, Feb 9, 2010
834 * Calling ->reinitialize on a cached anonymous class effectively uncached
835 the metaclass object, causing the metaclass to go out of scope
836 unexpectedly. This could easily happen at a distance by applying a
837 metarole to an anonymous class. (Dave Rolsky).
839 0.96 Sat, Feb 6, 2010
843 * ScalarRef is now a parameterized type. You can now specify a type
844 constraint for whatever the reference points to. (Closes RT#50857)
845 (Michael G. Schwern, Florian Ragwitz)
849 * ScalarRef now accepts references to other references. (Closes RT#50934)
852 0.95 Thu, Feb 4, 2010
856 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code now provides execute_method as
857 a delegation option. This allows the code reference to be called as a
858 method on the object. (Florian Ragwitz)
862 * Moose::Object::does no longer checks the entire inheritance tree, since
863 Moose::Meta::Class::does_role already does this. (doy)
865 * Moose::Util::add_method_modifier (and subsequently the sugar functions
866 Moose::before, Moose::after, and Moose::around) can now accept arrayrefs,
867 with the same behavior as lists. Types other than arrayref and regexp
868 result in an error. (Dylan Hardison)
870 0.94 Mon, Jan 18, 2010
874 * Please see the changes listed for 0.93_01 and Moose::Manual::Delta.
878 * Improved support for anonymous roles by changing various APIs to take
879 Moose::Meta::Role objects as well as role names. This included
881 - Moose::Meta::Class->does_role
882 - Moose::Meta::Role->does_role
883 - Moose::Util::does_role
884 - Moose::Util::apply_all_roles
885 - Moose::Util::ensure_all_roles
886 - Moose::Util::search_class_by_role
888 Requested by Shawn Moore. Addresses RT #51143 (and then some). (Dave Rolsky)
892 * Fix handling of non-alphanumeric attributes names like '@foo'. This should
893 work as long as the accessor method names are explicitly set to valid Perl
894 method names. Reported by Doug Treder. RT #53731. (Dave Rolsky)
897 0.93_03 Tue, Jan 5, 2010
901 * Portability fixes to our XS code so we compile with 5.8.8 and Visual
902 C++. Fixes RT #53391. Reported by Taro Nishino. (rafl)
905 0.93_02 Tue, Jan 5, 2010
909 * Depend on Class::MOP 0.97_01 so we can get useful results from CPAN
910 testers. (Dave Rolsky)
913 0.93_01 Mon, Jan 4, 2010
917 See Moose::Manual::Delta for more details on backwards compatiblity issues.
919 * Role attributes are now objects of the Moose::Meta::Role::Attribute
920 class. (Dave Rolsky).
922 * There were major changes to how metaroles are applied. We now distinguish
923 between metaroles for classes vs those for roles. See the
924 Moose::Util::MetaRole docs for details. (Dave Rolsky)
926 * The old MetaRole API has been deprecated, but will continue to
927 work. However, if you are applying an attribute metaclass role, this may
928 break because of the fact that roles now have an attribute metaclass
931 * Moose::Util::MetaRole::apply_metaclass_roles is now called
932 apply_metaroles. The old name is deprecated. (Dave Rolsky)
934 * The unimport subs created by Moose::Exporter now clean up re-exported
935 functions like blessed and confess, unless the caller imported them from
936 somewhere else too. See Moose::Manua::Delta for backcompat details. (rafl)
938 [ENHANCEMENTS AND BUG FIXES]
940 * Changed the Str constraint to accept magic lvalue strings like one gets from
941 substr et al, again. (sorear)
943 * Sped up the type constraint parsing regex. (Sam Vilain)
945 * The Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2 recipe was broken. Fix suggested by
948 * Added Moose::Util::TypeConstraints exports when using oose.pm to allow
949 easier testing of TypeConstraints from the command line. (perigrin)
951 * Added a with_immutable test function to Test::Moose, to run a block of tests
952 with and without certain classes being immutable. (doy)
954 * We now use Module::Install extensions explicitly to avoid confusing errors
955 if they're not installed. We use Module::Install::AuthorRequires to stop
956 test extraction and general failures if you don't have the author side
957 dependencies installed.
959 * Fixed a grammar error in Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe4. rt.cpan.org
960 #51791. (Amir E. Aharoni)
963 0.93 Thu, Nov 19, 2009
965 - Calling $object->new() is no longer deprecated, and no longer
969 - The get_attribute_map method is now deprecated. (Dave Rolsky)
971 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
972 - Preserve variable aliasing in @_ for delegated methods, so that
973 altering @_ affects the passed value. (doy)
975 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
976 - Allow array refs for non-anonymous form of enum and duck_type, not
977 just anonymous. The non-arrayref forms may be removed in the
979 - Changed Str constraint to not accept globs (*STDIN or *FOO). (chansen)
980 - Properly document Int being a subtype of Str. (doy)
983 - Moose::Exporter using modules can now export their functions to the
984 main package. This applied to Moose and Moose::Role, among
985 others. (nothingmuch)
987 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
988 - Don't remove attribute accessors we never installed, during
989 remove_accessors. (doy)
991 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Array
992 - Don't bypass prototype checking when calling List::Util::first, to
993 avoid a segfault when it is called with a non-code argument. (doy)
995 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Code
996 - Fix passing arguments to code execute helpers. (doy)
998 0.92 Tue, Sep 22, 2009
999 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1000 - added the match_on_type operator (Stevan)
1001 - added tests and docs for this (Stevan)
1003 * Moose::Meta::Class
1004 - Metaclass compat fixing should already happen recursively, there's no
1005 need to explicitly walk up the inheritance tree. (doy)
1007 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1008 - Add tests for set_raw_value and get_raw_value. (nothingmuch)
1010 0.91 Thu, Sep 17, 2009
1012 - Don't import any functions, in order to avoid polluting our namespace
1013 with things that can look like methods (blessed, try, etc)
1016 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1017 - The generated code needs to called Scalar::Util::blessed by its
1018 fully-qualified name or else Perl can interpret the call to blessed as
1019 an indirect method call. This broke Search::GIN, which in turn broke
1020 KiokuDB. (nothingmuch)
1022 0.90 Tue, Sep 15, 2009
1023 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Counter
1024 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::String
1025 - For these two traits, an attribute which did not explicitly provide
1026 methods to handles magically ended up delegating *all* the helper
1027 methods. This has been removed. You must be explicit in your handles
1028 declaration for all Native Traits. (Dave Rolsky)
1031 - DEMOLISHALL behavior has changed. If any DEMOLISH method dies, we make
1032 sure to rethrow its error message. However, we also localize $@ before
1033 this so that if all the DEMOLISH methods success, the value of $@ will
1034 be preserved. (nothingmuch and Dave Rolsky)
1035 - We now also localize $? during object destruction. (nothingmuch and
1037 - The handling of DEMOLISH methods was broken for immutablized classes,
1038 which were not receiving the value of
1039 Devel::GlobalDestruction::in_global_destruction.
1040 - These two fixes address some of RT #48271, reported by Zefram.
1041 - This is all now documented in Moose::Manual::Construction.
1042 - Calling $object->new() is now deprecated. A warning will be
1046 - Added more hooks to customize how roles are applied. The role
1047 summation class, used to create composite roles, can now be changed
1048 and/or have meta-roles applied to it. (rafl)
1049 - The get_method_list method no longer explicitly excludes the "meta"
1050 method. This was a hack that has been replaced by better hacks. (Dave
1053 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
1054 - fixed delegated methods to make sure that any modifiers attached to
1055 the accessor being delegated on will be called (Stevan)
1056 - added tests for this (Stevan)
1058 * Moose::Meta::Class
1059 - Moose no longer warns when a class that is being made immutable has
1060 mutable ancestors. While in theory this is a good thing to warn about,
1061 we found so many exceptions to this that doing this properly became
1064 0.89_02 Thu, Sep 10, 2009
1065 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native
1066 - Fix Hash, which still had 'empty' instead of 'is_empty'. (hdp)
1068 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native::Trait::Array
1069 - Added a number of functions from List::Util and List::MoreUtils,
1070 including reduce, shuffle, uniq, and natatime. (doy)
1073 - This module will now generate an init_meta method for your exporting
1074 class if you pass it options for
1075 Moose::Util::MetaRole::apply_metaclass_roles or
1076 apply_base_class_roles. This eliminates a lot of repetitive
1077 boilerplate for typical MooseX modules. (doy).
1078 - Documented the with_meta feature, which is a replacement for
1079 with_caller. This feature was added by josh a while ago.
1080 - The with_caller feature is now deprecated, but will not issue a
1081 warning yet. (Dave Rolsky)
1082 - If you try to wrap/export a subroutine which doesn't actually exist,
1083 Moose::Exporter will warn you about this. (doy)
1085 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToRole
1086 - When a role aliased a method from another role, it was only getting
1087 the new (aliased) name, not the original name. This differed from what
1088 happens when a class aliases a role's methods. If you _only_ want the
1089 aliased name, make sure to also exclue the original name. (Dave
1092 0.89_01 Wed Sep 2, 2009
1093 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1094 - Added the currying syntax for delegation from AttributeHelpers to the
1095 existing delegation API. (hdp)
1097 * Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native
1098 - We have merged the functionality of MooseX::AttributeHelpers into the
1099 Moose core with some API tweaks. You can continue to use
1100 MooseX::AttributeHelpers, but it will not be maintained except
1101 (perhaps) for critical bug fixes in the future. See
1102 Moose::Manual::Delta for details. (hdp, jhannah, rbuels, Sartak,
1105 * Moose::Error::Croak
1106 * Moose::Error::Confess
1107 - Clarify documentation on how to use different error-throwing
1108 modules. (Curtis Jewell)
1111 - Correct POD for builder to point to Recipe8, not 9. (gphat)
1114 - When a nonexistent sub name is passed to as_is, with_caller, or
1115 with_meta, throw a warning and skip the exporting, rather than
1116 installing a broken sub. (doy)
1118 * Moose::Meta::Class
1119 - Moose now warns if you call C<make_immutable> for a class with mutable
1122 0.89 Thu Aug 13, 2009
1123 * Moose::Manual::Attributes
1124 - Clarify "is", include discussion of "bare". (Sartak)
1126 * Moose::Meta::Role::Method::Conflicting
1127 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
1128 - For the first set of roles involved in a conflict, report all
1129 unresolved method conflicts, not just the first method. Fixes #47210
1130 reported by Ovid. (Sartak)
1132 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
1133 - Add assert_valid method to use a TypeConstraint for assertion (rjbs)
1136 - Make "use Moose -metaclass => 'Foo'" do alias resolution, like -traits
1138 - Allow specifying role options (alias, excludes, MXRP stuff) in the
1139 arrayref passed to "use Moose -traits" (doy)
1142 - Add functions meta_class_alias and meta_attribute_alias for creating
1143 aliases for class and attribute metaclasses and metatraits. (doy)
1145 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1146 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
1147 - A trigger now receives the old value as a second argument, if the
1148 attribute had one. (Dave Rolsky)
1150 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1151 - Fix a bug with $obj->new when $obj has stringify overloading.
1152 Reported by Andrew Suffield [rt.cpan.org #47882] (Sartak)
1153 - However, we will probably deprecate $obj->new, so please don't start
1154 using it for new code!
1156 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application
1157 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::RoleSummation
1158 - Rename alias and excludes to -alias and -excludes (but keep the old
1159 names for now, for backcompat) (doy)
1161 0.88 Fri Jul 24, 2009
1162 * Moose::Manual::Contributing
1163 - Re-write the Moose::Manual::Contributing document to reflect
1164 the new layout and methods of work for the Git repository. All
1165 work now should be done in topic branches and reviewed by a
1166 core committer before being applied to master. All releases
1167 are done by a cabal member and merged from master to
1168 stable. This plan was devised by Yuval, blame him. (perigrin)
1171 - Create metaclass attributes for the different role application
1174 * Moose::Util::MetaRole
1175 - Allow applying roles to a meta role's role application
1178 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1179 - Add weak_ref to allowed options for "has '+foo'" (mst)
1181 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
1182 - No longer uses inline_slot_access in accessors, to support
1183 non-lvalue-based meta instances. (sorear)
1185 0.87 Tue Jul 7, 2009
1186 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
1187 - Once again allow class names as well as objects for
1188 delegation. This was changed in 0.86.
1190 0.86 Fri Jul 3, 2009
1191 * Moose::Meta::Class::Immutable::Trait
1192 - Fixes to work with the latest Class::MOP.
1194 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
1195 - Delegation now dies with a more useful error message if the
1196 attribute's accessor returns something defined but
1199 0.85 Fri, Jun 26, 2009
1200 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1201 - The warning for 'no associated methods' is now split out into
1202 the _check_associated_methods method, so that extensions can
1203 safely call 'after install_accessors => ...'. This fixes a
1204 warning from MooseX::AttributeHelpers. (hdp)
1206 0.84 Fri, Jun 26, 2009
1208 - has now sets definition_context for attributes defined in
1211 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1212 - When adding an attribute to a metaclass, if the attribute has
1213 no associated methods, it will give a deprecation
1215 - Methods generated by delegation were not being added to
1216 associated_methods. (hdp)
1217 - Attribute accessors (reader, writer, accessor, predicate,
1218 clearer) now warn if they overwrite an existing method. (doy)
1219 - Attribute constructors now warn very noisily about unknown (or
1220 misspelled) arguments
1222 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1223 - Deprecated the totally useless Role type name, which just
1224 checked if $object->can('does'). Note that this is _not_ the
1225 same as a type created by calling role_type('RoleName').
1227 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1228 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::DuckType
1229 - Reify duck type from a regular subtype into an actual class
1231 - Document this because Sartak did all my work for me
1234 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1235 - Allow Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::DuckType in handles, since
1236 it is just a list of methods (Sartak)
1239 - The get_*_method_modifiers methods would die if the role had
1240 no modifiers of the given type (Robert Buels).
1242 0.83 Tue, Jun 23, 2009
1243 * Moose::Meta::Class
1244 - Fix _construct_instance not setting the special __MOP__ object
1245 key in instances of anon classes. (doy)
1247 0.82 Sun, Jun 21, 2009
1248 * Moose::Manual::Types
1249 - Mention MooseX::Types early to avoid users falling down the
1250 string parsing rathole (mst)
1252 * Moose::Manual::MooseX
1253 - Add warnings about class-level extensions and mention considering
1254 using plain objects instead
1256 0.81 Sun, Jun 7, 2009
1257 * Bumped our Class::MOP prereq to the latest version (0.85), since
1258 that's what we need.
1260 0.80 Sat, Jun 6, 2009
1261 * Moose::Manual::FAQ
1262 - Add FAQ about the coercion change from 0.76 because it came up
1263 three times today (perigrin)
1264 - Win doy $10 dollars because Sartak didn't think anybody
1265 would document this fast enough (perigrin)
1267 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
1268 - Inline a DESTROY method even if there are no DEMOLISH methods
1269 to prevent unnecessary introspection in
1270 Moose::Object::DEMOLISHALL
1273 - A role's required methods are now represented by
1274 Moose::Meta::Role::Method::Required objects. Conflicts are now
1275 represented by Moose::Meta::Role::Method::Conflicting
1276 objects. The benefit for end-users in that unresolved
1277 conflicts generate different, more instructive, errors,
1278 resolving Ovid's #44895. (Sartak)
1281 - Improve the error message of "extends" as suggested by Adam
1282 Kennedy and confound (Sartak)
1283 - Link to Moose::Manual::Roles from Moose::Role as we now have
1284 excellent documentation (Adam Kennedy)
1287 - Update test suite for subname change in Class::MOP
1289 - Add TODO test for infinite recursion in Moose::Meta::Class
1292 0.79 Wed, May 13, 2009
1294 - More fixes for Win32 problems. Reported by Robert Krimen.
1297 - The DEMOLISHALL method could still blow up in some cases
1298 during global destruction. This method has been made more
1299 resilient in the face of global destruction's random garbage
1303 - If you "also" a module that isn't loaded, the error message
1304 now acknowledges that (Sartak)
1307 - When your ->meta method does not return a Moose::Meta::Class,
1308 the error message gave the wrong output (Sartak)
1310 0.78 Tue, May 12, 2009
1311 * Moose::Cookbook::FAQ and Moose::Cookbook::WTF
1312 - Merged these documents into what is now Moose::Manual::FAQ
1314 * Moose::Unsweetened
1315 - Moved to Moose::Manual::Unsweetened
1317 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipes 9-12
1318 - Renamed to be 8-11, since recipe 8 did not exist
1321 - Make Moose::Exporter import strict and warnings into packages
1325 - Fix DEMOLISHALL sometimes not being able to find DEMOLISH
1326 methods during global destruction (doy)
1328 * Moose::Meta::Class
1329 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
1330 - Track the Role::Application objects created during class-role
1331 consumption (Sartak)
1333 * Moose::Meta::Class
1334 - Fix metaclass incompatibility errors when extending a vanilla perl
1335 class which isa Moose class with a metaclass role applied (t0m)
1338 - Add a role-combination hook, _role_for_combination, for the
1339 benefit of MooseX::Role::Parameterized (Sartak)
1342 - Some tests were failing on Win32 because they explicit checked
1343 warning output for newlines. Reported by Nickolay Platonov.
1345 0.77 Sat, May 2, 2009
1347 - Add explicit use of Devel::GlobalDestruction and Sub::Name
1351 - Pass a boolean to DEMOLISHALL and DEMOLISH indicating whether
1352 or not we are currently in global destruction (doy)
1353 - Add explicit use of Devel::GlobalDestruction and Sub::Name
1356 * Moose::Cookbook::FAQ
1357 - Reworked much of the existing content to be more useful to
1358 modern Moose hackers (Sartak)
1361 - Depend on Class::MOP 0.83 instead of 0.82_01.
1363 0.76 Mon, April 27, 2009
1364 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
1365 - Do not run coercions in coerce() if the value already passes the type
1368 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class
1369 - In validation error messages, specifically say that the value is not
1370 an instance of the class. This should alleviate some frustrating
1371 forgot-to-load-my-type bugs. rt.cpan.org #44639 (Sartak)
1373 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
1374 - Revert the class-overrides-role warning in favor of a solution outside
1375 of the Moose core (Sartak)
1378 - Make Test::Output optional again, since it's only used in a few files
1381 0.75_01 Thu, April 23, 2009
1382 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
1383 - Moose now warns about each class overriding methods from roles it
1387 - Warnings tests have standardized on Test::Output which is now an
1388 unconditionally dependency (Sartak)
1390 * Moose::Meta::Class
1391 - Changes to immutabilization to work with Class::MOP 0.82_01+.
1393 0.75 Mon, April 20, 2009
1395 * Moose::Meta::Class
1396 - Move validation of not inheriting from roles from Moose::extends to
1397 Moose::Meta::Class::superclasses (doy)
1400 - add ensure_all_roles() function to encapsulate the common "apply this
1401 role unless the object already does it" pattern (hdp)
1404 - Users can now select a different metaclass with the "-metaclass"
1405 option to import, for classes and roles (Sartak)
1408 - Make method_metaclass an attr so that it can accept a metarole
1411 0.74 Tue, April 7, 2009
1413 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
1414 - Include stack traces in the deprecation warnings.
1417 * Moose::Meta::Class
1418 - Removed the long-deprecated _apply_all_roles method.
1420 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
1421 - Removed the long-deprecated union method.
1424 0.73_02 Mon, April 6, 2009
1425 * More deprecations and renamings
1426 - Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1427 - initialize_body => _initialize_body (this is always called
1428 when an object is constructed)
1431 - The DEMOLISHALL method could throw an exception during global
1432 destruction, meaning that your class's DEMOLISH methods would
1433 not be properly called. Reported by t0m.
1435 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
1436 - Destructor inlining was totally broken by the change to the
1437 is_needed method in 0.72_01. Now there is a test for this
1438 feature, and it works again.
1441 - Bold the word 'not' in the POD for find_meta (t0m)
1443 0.73_01 Sun, April 5, 2009
1445 - Call user_class->meta in fewer places, with the eventual goal
1446 of allowing the user to rename or exclude ->meta
1447 altogether. Instead uses Class::MOP::class_of. (Sartak)
1449 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
1450 - If an attribute had a lazy default, and that value did not
1451 pass the attribute's type constraint, it did not get the
1452 message from the type constraint, instead using a generic
1453 message. Test provided by perigrin.
1455 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1456 - Add duck_type keyword. It's sugar over making sure an object
1457 can() a list of methods. This is easier than jrockway's
1458 suggestion to fork all of CPAN. (perigrin)
1459 - add tests and documentation (perigrin)
1462 - Document the fact that init_meta() returns the target class's
1463 metaclass object. (hdp)
1465 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe1
1466 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2
1467 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe3
1468 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe4
1469 - Make init_meta() examples explicitly return the metaclass and
1470 point out this fact. (hdp)
1472 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe12
1473 - A new recipe, creating a custom meta-method class.
1475 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe6
1476 - A new recipe, creating a custom meta-method class.
1478 * Moose::Meta::Class
1479 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1480 - Attribute triggers no longer receive the meta-attribute object
1481 as an argument in any circumstance. Previously, triggers
1482 called during instance construction were passed the
1483 meta-attribute, but triggers called by normal accessors were
1484 not. Fixes RT#44429, reported by Mark Swayne. (hdp)
1486 * Moose::Manual::Attributes
1487 - Remove references to triggers receving the meta-attribute object as an
1490 * Moose::Cookbook::FAQ
1491 - Remove recommendation for deprecated Moose::Policy and
1492 Moose::Policy::FollowPBP; recommend MooseX::FollowPBP
1495 * Many methods have been renamed with a leading underscore, and a
1496 few have been deprecated entirely. The methods with a leading
1497 underscore are consider "internals only". People writing
1498 subclasses or extensions to Moose should feel free to override
1499 them, but they are not for "public" use.
1501 - Moose::Meta::Class
1502 - check_metaclass_compatibility => _check_metaclass_compatibility
1504 - Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
1505 - initialize_body => _initialize_body (this is always called
1506 when an object is constructed)
1507 - /(generate_.*_method(?:_inline)?)/ => '_' . $1
1509 - Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1510 - initialize_body => _initialize_body (this is always called
1511 when an object is constructed)
1512 - /(generate_constructor_method(?:_inline)?)/ => '_' . $1
1513 - attributes => _attributes (now inherited from parent)
1514 - meta_instance => _meta_instance (now inherited from parent)
1517 - alias_method is deprecated. Use add_method
1519 0.73 Fri, March 29, 2009
1520 * No changes from 0.72_01.
1522 0.72_01 Thu, March 26, 2009
1524 - Almost every module has complete API documentation. A few
1525 methods (and even whole classes) have been intentionally
1526 excluded pending some rethinking of their APIs.
1528 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1529 - Calling subtype with a name as the only argument is now an
1530 exception. If you want an anonymous subtype do:
1532 my $subtype = subtype as 'Foo';
1534 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe7
1535 - A new recipe, creating a custom meta-instance class.
1537 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe5
1538 - Fix various typos and mistakes. Includes a patch from Radu
1541 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe9
1542 - Link to this recipe from Moose.pm's builder blurb
1545 - When wrapping a function with a prototype, Moose::Exporter now
1546 makes sure the wrapped function still has the same
1547 prototype. (Daisuke Maki)
1549 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1550 - Allow a subclass to set lazy_build for an inherited
1554 - Explicitly depend on Data::OptList. We already had this dependency
1555 via Sub::Exporter, but since we're using it directly we're
1556 better off with it listed. (Sartak)
1558 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1559 - Make it easier to subclass the inlining behaviour. (Ash
1562 * Moose::Manual::Delta
1563 - Details significant changes in the history of Moose, along
1564 with recommended workarounds.
1566 * Moose::Manual::Contributing
1567 - Contributor's guide to Moose.
1569 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1570 - The long-deprecated intialize_body method has been removed
1571 (yes, spelled like that).
1573 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
1574 - This is_needed method is now always a class method.
1576 * Moose::Meta::Class
1577 - Changes to the internals of how make_immutable works to match
1578 changes in latest Class::MOP.
1580 0.72 Mon, February 23, 2009
1582 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1583 - A mutable class accepted Foo->new(undef) without complaint,
1584 while an immutable class would blow up with an unhelpful
1585 error. Now, in both cases we throw a helpful error
1586 instead. Reported by doy.
1588 0.71_01 Sun, February 22, 2009
1590 - Hopefully fixed some POD errors in a few recipes that caused
1591 them to display weird on search.cpan.org.
1593 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1594 - Calling type or subtype without the sugar helpers (as, where,
1595 message) is now deprecated.
1596 - The subtype function tried hard to guess what you meant, but
1597 often got it wrong. For example:
1599 my $subtype = subtype as 'ArrayRef[Object]';
1601 This caused an error in the past, but now works as you'd
1605 - Make sure Moose.pm is loaded before calling
1606 Moose->throw_error. This wasn't normally an issue, but could
1607 bite you in weird cases.
1609 0.71 Thu, February 19, 2009
1610 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe11
1611 - A new recipe which demonstrates the use of BUILDARGS and
1612 BUILD. (Dave Rolsky)
1614 * Moose::Cookbook::Roles::Recipe3
1615 - A new recipe, applying a role to an object instance. (Dave
1619 - Allow overriding specific keywords from "also" packages. (doy)
1622 - Replace hardcoded cookbook tests with Test::Inline to ensure
1623 the tests match the actual code in the recipes. (Dave Rolsky)
1626 - Working on the above turned up a number of little bugs in the
1627 recipe code. (Dave Rolsky)
1629 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::Optimized
1630 - Just use Class::MOP for the optimized ClassName check. (Dave
1633 0.70 Sat, February 14, 2009
1634 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1635 - Added the RoleName type (stevan)
1636 - added tests for this (stevan)
1638 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe3
1639 - Updated the before qw[left right] sub to be a little more
1640 defensive about what it accepts (stevan)
1641 - added more tests to t/000_recipies/basics/003_binary_tree.t
1645 - We now always call DEMOLISHALL, even if a class does not
1646 define DEMOLISH. This makes sure that method modifiers on
1647 DEMOLISHALL work as expected. (doy)
1648 - added tests for this (EvanCarroll)
1650 * Moose::Util::MetaRole
1651 - Accept roles for the wrapped_method_metaclass (rafl)
1652 - added tests for this (rafl)
1654 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1655 - We no longer pass the meta-attribute object as a final
1656 argument to triggers. This actually changed for inlined code a
1657 while back, but the non-inlined version and the docs were
1661 - Some tests tried to use Test::Warn 0.10, which had bugs. Now
1662 they require 0.11. (Dave Rolsky)
1665 - Lots of small changes to the manual, cookbook, and
1666 elsewhere. These were based on feedback from various
1667 users, too many to list here. (Dave Rolsky)
1669 0.69 Thu, February 12, 2009
1671 - Make some keyword errors use throw_error instead of croak
1672 since Moose::Exporter wraps keywords now (Sartak)
1674 * Moose::Cookbook::*
1675 - Revised every recipe for style and clarity. Also moved some
1676 documentation out of cookbook recipes and into Moose::Manual
1677 pages. This work was funded as part of the Moose docs grant
1678 from TPF. (Dave Rolsky)
1680 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
1681 - If the attribute doing the delegation was not populated, the
1682 error message did not specify the attribute name
1685 0.68 Wed, February 4, 2009
1687 - Many spelling, typo, and formatting fixes by daxim.
1689 * Moose::Manual::Attributes
1690 - The NAME section in the POD used "Attribute" so search.cpan
1691 didn't resolve links from other documents properly.
1693 * Moose::Meta::Method::Overriden
1694 - Now properly spelled as Overridden. Thanks to daxim for
1697 0.67 Tue, February 3, 2009
1699 - Lots of little typo fixes and a few clarifications. Several
1700 pages didn't have proper titles, and so weren't actually
1701 visible on search.cpan.org. Thanks to hanekomu for a variety
1702 of fixes and formatting improvements.
1704 0.66 Tue, February 3, 2009
1706 - This is a brand new, extensive manual for Moose. This aims to
1707 provide a complete introduction to all of Moose's
1708 features. This work was funded as part of the Moose docs grant
1709 from TPF. (Dave Rolsky)
1711 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1712 - Added a delegation_metaclass method to replace a hard-coded
1713 use of Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation. (Dave Rolsky)
1715 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1716 - If you created a subtype and passed a parent that Moose didn't
1717 know about, it simply ignored the parent. Now it automatically
1718 creates the parent as a class type. This may not be what you
1719 want, but is less broken than before. (Dave Rolsky)
1721 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1722 - This module tried throw errors by calling Moose->throw_error,
1723 but it did not ensure that Moose was loaded first. This could
1724 cause very unhelpful errors when it tried to throw an error
1725 before Moose was loaded. (Dave Rolsky)
1727 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1728 - You could declare a name with subtype such as "Foo!Bar" that
1729 would be allowed, but if you used it in a parameterized type
1730 such as "ArrayRef[Foo!Bar]" it wouldn't work. We now do some
1731 vetting on names created via the sugar functions, so that they
1732 can only contain alphanumerics, ":", and ".". (Dave Rolsky)
1734 0.65 Thu, January 22, 2009
1735 * Moose and Moose::Meta::Method::Overridden
1736 - If an overridden method called super(), and then the
1737 superclass's method (not overridden) _also_ called super(),
1738 Moose went into an endless recursion loop. Test provided by
1739 Chris Prather. (Dave Rolsky)
1741 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
1742 - All methods are now documented. (gphat)
1744 * t/100_bugs/011_DEMOLISH_eats_exceptions.t
1745 - Fixed some bogus failures that occurred because we tried to
1746 validate filesystem paths in a very ad-hoc and
1747 not-quite-correct way. (Dave Rolsky)
1749 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1750 - Added maybe_type to exports. See docs for details. (rjbs)
1753 - Added Moose::Util::TypeConstraints to the SEE ALSO
1757 - Methods created via an attribute can now fulfill a "requires"
1758 declaration for a role. (nothingmuch)
1760 * Moose::Meta::Method::*
1761 - Stack traces from inlined code will now report its line and
1762 file as being in your class, as opposed to in Moose
1763 guts. (nothingmuch).
1765 0.64 Wed, December 31, 2008
1766 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
1767 - Always inline predicate and clearer methods (Sartak)
1769 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1770 - Support for parameterized traits (Sartak)
1771 - verify_against_type_constraint method to avoid duplication
1772 and enhance extensibility (Sartak)
1774 * Moose::Meta::Class
1775 - Tests (but no support yet) for parameterized traits (Sartak)
1778 - Require Class::MOP 0.75+, which has the side effect of making
1779 sure we work on Win32. (Dave Rolsky)
1781 0.63 Mon, December 8, 2008
1782 * Moose::Unsweetened
1783 - Some small grammar tweaks and bug fixes in non-Moose example
1786 0.62_02 Fri, December 5, 2008
1787 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
1788 - When a class does not provide all of a role's required
1789 methods, the error thrown now mentions all of the missing
1790 methods, as opposed to just the first one found. Requested by
1791 Curtis Poe (RT #41119). (Dave Rolsky)
1793 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1794 - Moose will no longer inline a constructor for your class
1795 unless it inherits its constructor from Moose::Object, and
1796 will warn when it doesn't inline. If you want to force
1797 inlining anyway, pass "replace_constructor => 1" to
1798 make_immutable. Addresses RT #40968, reported by Jon
1799 Swartz. (Dave Rolsky)
1800 - The quoting of default values could be broken if the default
1801 contained a single quote ('). Now we use quotemeta to escape
1802 anything potentially dangerous in the defaults. (Dave Rolsky)
1804 0.62_01 Wed, December 3, 2008
1806 - use the method->execute API for BUILDALL
1807 and DEMOLISHALL (Sartak)
1809 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1810 - We now make all the type constraint meta classes immutable
1811 before creating the default types provided by Moose. This
1812 should make loading Moose a little faster. (Dave Rolsky)
1814 0.62 Wed November 26, 2008
1815 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToClass
1816 Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToRole
1817 - fixed issues where excluding and aliasing the
1818 same methods for a single role did not work
1819 right (worked just fine with multiple
1821 - added test for this (stevan)
1823 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::RoleSummation
1824 - fixed the error message when trying to compose
1825 a role with a role it excludes (Sartak)
1828 - Catch another case where recursion caused the value
1829 of $CALLER to be stamped on (t0m)
1830 - added test for this (t0m)
1833 - Remove the make_immutable keyword, which has been
1834 deprecated since April. It breaks metaclasses that
1835 use Moose without no Moose (Sartak)
1837 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1838 - Removing an attribute from a class now also removes delegation
1839 (handles) methods installed for that attribute (t0m)
1840 - added test for this (t0m)
1842 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
1843 - An attribute with a default that looked like a number (but was
1844 really a string) would accidentally be treated as a number
1845 when the constructor was made immutable (perigrin)
1846 - added test for this (perigrin)
1849 - create method for constructing a role
1850 dynamically (Sartak)
1851 - added test for this (Sartak)
1852 - anonymous roles! (Sartak)
1853 - added test for this (Sartak)
1856 - more consistent error messages (Sartak)
1858 * Moose::Cookbook::Roles::Recipe1
1859 - attempt to explain why a role that just requires
1860 methods is useful (Sartak)
1862 0.61 Fri November 7, 2008
1863 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1864 - When passing a role to handles, it will be loaded if necessary
1867 * Moose::Meta::Class
1868 - Method objects returned by get_method (and other methods)
1869 Could end up being returned without an associated_metaclass
1870 attribute. Removing get_method_map, which is provided by
1871 Class::MOP::Class, fixed this. The Moose version did nothing
1872 different from its parent except introduce a bug. (Dave Rolsky)
1873 - added tests for this (jdv79)
1876 - Added a $VERSION to all .pm files which didn't have one. Fixes
1877 RT #40049, reported by Adam Kennedy. (Dave Rolsky)
1879 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe4
1880 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe6
1881 - These files had spaces on the first line of the SYNOPSIS, as
1882 opposed to a totally empty line. According to RT #40432, this
1883 confuses POD parsers. (Dave Rolsky)
1885 0.60 Fri October 24, 2008
1887 - Passing "-traits" when loading Moose caused the Moose.pm
1888 exports to be broken. Reported by t0m. (Dave Rolsky)
1889 - Tests for this bug. (t0m)
1892 - Change resolve_metaclass alias to use the new
1893 load_first_existing_class function. This makes it a lot
1894 simpler, and also around 5 times faster. (t0m)
1895 - Add caching to resolve_metaclass_alias, which gives an order
1896 of magnitude speedup to things which repeatedly call the
1897 Moose::Meta::Attribute->does method, notably MooseX::Storage
1900 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraint
1901 - Put back the changes for parameterized constraints that
1902 shouldn't have been removed in 0.59. We still cannot parse
1903 them, but MooseX modules can create them in some other
1904 way. See the 0.58 changes for more details. (jnapiorkowski)
1905 - Changed the way subtypes are created so that the job is
1906 delegated to a type constraint parent. This clears up some
1907 hardcoded checking and should allow correct subtypes of
1908 Moose::Meta::Type::Constraint. Don't rely on this new API too
1909 much (create_child_type) because it may go away in the
1910 future. (jnapiorkowski)
1912 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
1913 - Type constraint names are sorted as strings, not numbers.
1916 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterizable
1917 - New parameterize method. This can be used as a factory method
1918 to make a new type constraint with a given parameterized
1919 type. (jnapiorkowski)
1920 - added tests (jnapiorkowski)
1922 0.59 Tue October 14, 2008
1924 - Add abridged documentation for builder/default/initializer/
1925 predicate, and link to more details sections in
1926 Class::MOP::Attribute. (t0m)
1928 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1929 - removed prototypes from all but the &-based stuff (mst)
1931 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1932 - Creating a anonymous subtype with both a constraint and a
1933 message failed with a very unhelpful error, but should just
1934 work. Reported by t0m. (Dave Rolsky)
1937 - Some tests that used Test::Warn if it was available failed
1938 with older versions of Test::Warn. Reported by Fayland. (Dave
1940 - Test firing behavior of triggers in relation to builder/default/
1942 - Test behavior of equals/is_a_type_of/is_a_subtype_of for all
1943 kinds of supported type. (t0m)
1945 * Moose::Meta::Class
1946 - In create(), do not pass "roles" option to the superclass
1947 - added related test that creates an anon metaclass with
1948 a required attribute
1950 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class
1951 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Role
1952 - Unify behavior of equals/is_a_type_of/is_a_subtype_of with
1953 other types (as per change in 0.55_02). (t0m)
1955 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Registry
1956 - Fix warning when dealing with unknown type names (t0m)
1958 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
1959 - Reverted changes from 0.58 related to handle parameterized
1960 types. This caused random failures on BSD and Win32 systems,
1961 apparently related to the regex engine. This means that Moose
1962 can no longer parse structured type constraints like
1963 ArrayRef[Int,Int] or HashRef[name=>Str]. This will be
1964 supported in a slightly different way via MooseX::Types some
1965 time in the future. (Dave Rolsky)
1967 0.58 Sat September 20, 2008
1968 !! This release has an incompatible change regarding !!
1969 !! how roles add methods to a class !!
1971 * Roles and role application
1972 ! Roles now add methods by calling add_method, not
1973 alias_method. They make sure to always provide a method
1974 object, which will be cloned internally. This means that it is
1975 now possible to track the source of a method provided by a
1976 role, and even follow its history through intermediate roles.
1978 This means that methods added by a role now show up when
1979 looking at a class's method list/map. (Dave Rolsky)
1982 - From this release on, we'll try to maintain a list of
1983 conflicting modules, and warn you if you have one
1984 installed. For example, this release conflicts with ...
1985 - MooseX::Singleton <= 0.11
1986 - MooseX::Params::Validate <= 0.05
1989 In general, we try to not break backwards compatibility for
1990 most Moose users, but MooseX modules and other code which
1991 extends Moose's metaclasses is often affected by very small
1992 changes in the Moose internals.
1994 * Moose::Meta::Method::Delegation
1995 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
1996 - Delegation methods now have their own method class. (Dave
1999 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterizable
2000 - Added a new method 'parameterize' which is basically a factory
2001 for the containing constraint. This makes it easier to create
2002 new types of parameterized constraints. (jnapiorkowski)
2004 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
2005 - Changed the way Union types canonicalize their names to follow
2006 the normalized TC naming rules, which means we strip all
2007 whitespace. (jnapiorkowski)
2009 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2010 - Parameter and Union args are now sorted, this makes Int|Str
2011 the same constraint as Str|Int. (jnapiorkowski)
2012 - Changes to the way Union types are parsed to more correctly
2013 stringify their names. (jnapiorkowski)
2014 - When creating a parameterized type, we now use the new
2015 parameterize method. (jnapiorkowski)
2016 - Incoming type constraint strings are now normalized to remove
2017 all whitespace differences. (jnapiorkowski)
2018 - Changed the way we parse type constraint strings so that we now
2019 match TC[Int,Int,...] and TC[name=>Str] as parameterized type
2020 constraints. This lays the foundation for more flexible type
2021 constraint implementations.
2023 * Tests and docs for all the above. (jnapiorkowski)
2027 - Moose::Exporter will no longer remove a subroutine that the
2028 exporting package re-exports. Moose re-exports the
2029 Carp::confess function, among others. The reasoning is that we
2030 cannot know whether you have also explicitly imported those
2031 functions for your own use, so we err on the safe side and
2032 always keep them. (Dave Rolsky)
2033 - added tests for this (rafl)
2035 * Moose::Meta::Class
2036 - Changes to how we fix metaclass compatibility that are much
2037 too complicated to go into. The summary is that Moose is much
2038 less likely to complain about metaclass incompatibility
2039 now. In particular, if two metaclasses differ because
2040 Moose::Util::MetaRole was used on the two corresponding
2041 classes, then the difference in roles is reconciled for the
2042 subclass's metaclass. (Dave Rolsky)
2043 - Squashed an warning in _process_attribute (thepler)
2046 - throw exceptions (sooner) for invalid attribute names (thepler)
2047 - added tests for this (thepler)
2049 * Moose::Util::MetaRole
2050 - If you explicitly set a constructor or destructor class for a
2051 metaclass object, and then applied roles to the metaclass,
2052 that explicitly set class would be lost and replaced with the
2055 * Moose::Meta::Class
2056 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2057 * Moose::Meta::Method
2060 * Moose::Error::Default
2061 * Moose::Error::Croak
2062 * Moose::Error::Confess
2063 - All instances of confess() changed to use overridable
2064 C<throw_error> method. This method ultimately calls a class
2065 constructor, and you can change the class being called. In
2066 addition, errors now pass more information than just a string.
2067 The default C<error_class> behaves like C<Carp::confess>, so
2068 the behavior is not visibly different for end users.
2070 0.57 Wed September 3, 2008
2072 - A new bit of doc intended to introduce folks familiar with
2073 "standard" Perl 5 OO to Moose concepts. (Dave Rolsky)
2075 * Moose::Unsweetened
2076 - Shows examples of two classes, each done first with and then
2077 without Moose. This makes a nice parallel to
2078 Moose::Intro. (Dave Rolsky)
2080 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2081 - Fixed a bug in find_or_parse_type_constraint so that it
2082 accepts a Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint object as the parent
2083 type, not just a name (jnapiorkowski)
2084 - added tests (jnapiorkowski)
2087 - If Sub::Name was not present, unimporting failed to actually
2088 remove some sugar subs, causing test failures (Dave Rolsky)
2090 0.56 Mon September 1, 2008
2091 For those not following the series of dev releases, there are
2092 several major changes in this release of Moose.
2093 ! Moose::init_meta should now be called as a method. See the
2096 - Major performance improvements by nothingmuch.
2098 - New modules for extension writers, Moose::Exporter and
2099 Moose::Util::MetaRole by Dave Rolsky.
2101 - Lots of doc improvements and additions, especially in the
2104 - Various bug fixes.
2106 * Removed all references to the experimental-but-no-longer-needed
2107 Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToMetaclassInstance.
2109 * Require Class::MOP 0.65.
2111 0.55_04 Sat August 30, 2008
2112 * Moose::Util::MetaRole
2113 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2
2114 - This simplifies the application of roles to any meta class, as
2115 well as the base object class. Reimplemented metaclass traits
2116 using this module. (Dave Rolsky)
2118 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe1
2119 - This a new recipe, an overview of various ways to write Moose
2120 extensions (Dave Rolsky)
2122 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe3
2123 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe4
2124 - These used to be Extending::Recipe1 and Extending::Recipe2,
2127 0.55_03 Fri August 29, 2008
2128 * No changes from 0.55_02 except increasing the Class::MOP
2129 dependency to 0.64_07.
2131 0.55_02 Fri August 29, 2008
2132 * Makefile.PL and Moose.pm
2133 - explicitly require Perl 5.8.0+ (Dave Rolsky)
2135 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2136 - Fix warnings from find_type_constraint if the type is not
2139 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2140 - Predicate methods (equals/is_a_type_of/is_subtype_of) now
2141 return false if the type you specify cannot be found in the
2142 type registry, rather than throwing an unhelpful and
2143 coincidental exception. (t0m).
2144 - added docs & test for this (t0m)
2146 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Registry
2147 - add_type_constraint now throws an exception if a parameter is
2149 - added docs & test for this (t0m)
2151 * Moose::Cookbook::FAQ
2152 - Added a faq entry on the difference between "role" and "trait"
2156 - Fixed a bug that caused role composition to not see a required
2157 method when that method was provided by another role being
2158 composed at the same time. (Dave Rolsky)
2159 - test and bug finding (tokuhirom)
2161 0.55_01 Wed August 20, 2008
2163 !! Calling Moose::init_meta as a function is now !!
2164 !! deprecated. Please see the Moose.pm docs for details. !!
2166 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2167 - Fix inlined constructor so that values produced by default
2168 or builder methods are coerced as required. (t0m)
2169 - added test for this (t0m)
2171 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2172 - A lazy attribute with a default or builder did not attempt to
2173 coerce the default value. The immutable code _did_
2175 - added test for this (t0m)
2178 - This is a new helper module for writing "Moose-alike"
2179 modules. This should make the lives of MooseX module authors
2180 much easier. (Dave Rolsky)
2183 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe5
2184 - Implemented metaclass traits (and wrote a recipe for it):
2186 use Moose -traits => 'Foo'
2188 This should make writing small Moose extensions a little
2189 easier (Dave Rolsky)
2191 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe1
2192 - Removed any examples of direct hashref access, and applied an
2193 editorial axe to reduce verbosity. (Dave Rolsky)
2195 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe1
2196 - Also applied an editorial axe here. (Dave Rolsky)
2199 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe1
2200 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2
2201 - Rewrote extending and embedding moose documentation and
2202 recipes to use Moose::Exporter (Dave Rolsky)
2206 - These two modules now warn when you load them from the main
2207 package "main" package, because we will not export sugar to
2208 main. Previously it just did nothing. (Dave Rolsky)
2211 - Now provide an init_meta method just like Moose.pm, and you
2212 can call this to provide an alternate role metaclass. (Dave
2213 Rolsky and nothingmuch)
2214 - get_method_map now respects the package cache flag (nothingmuch)
2217 - Two new methods - add_method and wrap_method_body
2221 - Optimizations including allowing constructors to accept hash
2222 refs, making many more classes immutable, and making
2223 constructors immutable. (nothingmuch)
2225 0.55 Sun August 3, 2008
2226 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2227 - breaking down the way 'handles' methods are
2228 created so that the process can be more easily
2229 overridden by subclasses (stevan)
2231 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2232 - fixing what is passed into a ->message with
2233 the type constraints (RT #37569)
2234 - added tests for this (Charles Alderman)
2236 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2237 - fix coerce to accept anon types like subtype can (mst)
2240 - reorganized the recipes into sections - Basics, Roles, Meta,
2241 Extending - and wrote abstracts for each section (Dave Rolsky)
2243 * Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe10
2244 - A new recipe that demonstrates operator overloading
2245 in combination with Moose. (bluefeet)
2247 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe1
2248 - an introduction to what meta is and why you'd want to make
2249 your own metaclass extensions (Dave Rolsky)
2251 * Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe4
2252 - a very simple metaclass example (Dave Rolsky)
2254 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe1
2255 - how to write a Moose-alike module to use your own object base
2258 * Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2
2259 - how to write modules with an API just like C<Moose.pm> (Dave
2263 - Tons of fixes, both syntactical and grammatical (Dave
2264 Rolsky, Paul Fenwick)
2266 0.54 Thurs. July 3, 2008
2267 ... this is not my day today ...
2269 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2270 - fixed legal_options_for_inheritance such that
2271 clone_and_inherit options still works for
2272 Class::MOP::Attribute objects and therefore
2273 does not break MooseX::AttributeHelpers
2276 0.53 Thurs. July 3, 2008
2277 * Whoops, I guess I should run 'make manifest' before
2278 actually releasing the module. No actual changes
2279 in this release, except the fact that it includes
2280 the changes that I didn't include in the last
2283 0.52 Thurs. July 3, 2008
2285 - added "FEATURE REQUESTS" section to the Moose docs
2286 to properly direct people (stevan) (RT #34333)
2287 - making 'extends' croak if it is passed a Role since
2288 this is not ever something you want to do
2289 (fixed by stevan, found by obra)
2290 - added tests for this (stevan)
2293 - adding support for DOES (as in UNIVERSAL::DOES)
2295 - added test for this
2297 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2298 - added legal_options_for_inheritance (wreis)
2299 - added tests for this (wreis)
2301 * Moose::Cookbook::Snacks::*
2302 - removed some of the unfinished snacks that should
2303 not have been released yet. Added some more examples
2304 to the 'Keywords' snack. (stevan)
2306 * Moose::Cookbook::Style
2307 - added general Moose "style guide" of sorts to the
2308 cookbook (nothingmuch) (RT #34335)
2311 - added more BUILDARGS tests (stevan)
2313 0.51 Thurs. Jun 26, 2008
2315 - add unimport so "no Moose::Role" actually does
2318 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToRole
2319 - when RoleA did RoleB, and RoleA aliased a method from RoleB in
2320 order to provide its own implementation, that method still got
2321 added to the list of required methods for consumers of
2322 RoleB. Now an aliased method is only added to the list of
2323 required methods if the role doing the aliasing does not
2324 provide its own implementation. See Recipe 11 for an example
2325 of all this. (Dave Rolsky)
2326 - added tests for this
2328 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2329 - when a single argument that wasn't a hashref was provided to
2330 an immutabilized constructor, the error message was very
2331 unhelpful, as opposed to the non-immutable error. Reported by
2333 - added test for this (Dave Rolsky)
2335 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2336 - added support for meta_attr->does("ShortAlias") (sartak)
2337 - added tests for this (sartak)
2338 - moved the bulk of the `handles` handling to the new
2339 install_delegation method (Stevan)
2342 - Added BUILDARGS, a new step in new()
2344 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::RoleSummation
2345 - fix typos no one ever sees (sartak)
2347 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2348 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2349 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
2350 - Attempt to work around the ??{ } vs. threads issue
2352 - Some null_constraint optimizations
2354 0.50 Thurs. Jun 11, 2008
2355 - Fixed a version number issue by bumping all modules
2358 0.49 Thurs. Jun 11, 2008
2359 !! This version now approx. 20-25% !!
2360 !! faster with new Class::MOP 0.59 !!
2362 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2363 - fixed how the is => (ro|rw) works with
2364 custom defined reader, writer and accessor
2366 - added docs for this (TODO).
2367 - added tests for this (Thanks to Penfold)
2368 - added the custom attribute alias for regular
2369 Moose attributes which is "Moose"
2370 - fix builder and default both being used
2375 Moose::Meta::Attribute
2377 Moose::Meta::Role::Composite
2378 Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2379 - switched usage of reftype to ref because
2383 - changing add_package_symbol to use the new
2387 - fixed how DEMOLISHALL is called so that it
2388 can be overrided in subclasses (thanks to Sartak)
2389 - added test for this (thanks to Sartak)
2391 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2392 - move the ClassName type check code to
2393 Class::MOP::is_class_loaded (thanks to Sartak)
2395 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe11
2396 - add tests for this (thanks to tokuhirom)
2398 0.48 Thurs. May 29, 2008
2399 (early morning release engineering)--
2401 - fixing the version in Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
2402 which was causing the indexer to choke
2404 0.47 Thurs. May 29, 2008
2405 (late night release engineering)--
2407 - fixing the version is META.yml, no functional
2408 changes in this release
2410 0.46 Wed. May 28, 2008
2411 !! This version now approx. 20-25% !!
2412 !! faster with new Class::MOP 0.57 !!
2414 * Moose::Meta::Class
2415 - some optimizations of the &initialize method
2416 since it is called so often by &meta
2418 * Moose::Meta::Class
2420 - now use the get_all_package_symbols from the
2421 updated Class::MOP, test suite is now 10 seconds
2424 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
2425 - is_needed can now also be called as a class
2426 method for immutablization to check if the
2427 destructor object even needs to be created
2430 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
2431 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2432 - added more descriptive error message to help
2433 keep people from wasting time tracking an error
2434 that is easily fixed by upgrading.
2436 0.45 Saturday, May 24, 2008
2438 - Because of work in Class::MOP 0.57, all
2439 XS based functionality is now optional
2440 and a Pure Perl version is supplied
2441 - the CLASS_MOP_NO_XS environment variable
2442 can now be used to force non-XS versions
2444 - several of the packages have been tweaked
2445 to take care of this, mostly we added
2446 support for the package_name and name
2447 variables in all the Method metaclasses
2448 - before/around/after method modifiers now
2449 support regexp matching of names
2450 (thanks to Takatoshi Kitano)
2451 - tests added for this
2452 - NOTE: this only works for classes, it
2453 is currently not supported in roles,
2454 but, ... patches welcome
2455 - All usage of Carp::confess have been replaced
2456 by Carp::croak in the "keyword" functions since
2457 the stack trace is usually not helpful
2460 - All usage of Carp::confess have been replaced
2461 by Carp::croak in the "keyword" functions since
2462 the stack trace is usually not helpful
2463 - The 'has' keyword for roles now accepts the
2464 same array ref form that Moose.pm does
2465 (has [qw/foo bar/] => (is => 'rw', ...))
2466 - added test for this
2468 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2469 - trigger on a ro-attribute is no longer an
2470 error, as it's useful to trigger off of the
2473 * Moose::Meta::Class
2474 - added same 'add_package_symbol' fix as in
2478 - does_role now handles non-Moose classes
2480 - added tests for this
2481 - added the 'add_method_modifier' function
2482 (thanks to Takatoshi Kitano)
2484 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2485 - subtypes of parameterizable types now are
2486 themselves parameterizable types
2488 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2489 - fixed bug where trigger was not being
2490 called by the inlined immutable
2492 - added test for this (thanks to Caelum)
2494 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToInstance
2495 - now uses the metaclass of the instance
2496 (if possible) to create the anon-class
2497 (thanks Jonathan Rockway)
2499 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe22
2500 - added the meta-attribute trait recipe
2504 - fixed hash-ordering test bug that was
2505 causing occasional cpantester failures
2506 - renamed the t/000_recipe/*.t tests to be
2507 more descriptive (thanks to Sartak)
2509 0.44 Sat. May 10, 2008
2511 - made make_immutable warning cluck to
2512 show where the error is (thanks mst)
2515 - BUILDALL and DEMOLISHALL now call
2516 ->body when looping through the
2517 methods, to avoid the overloaded
2519 - fixed issue where DEMOLISHALL was
2520 eating the $@ values, and so not
2521 working correctly, it still kind of
2522 eats them, but so does vanilla perl
2523 - added tests for this
2525 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe7
2526 - added new recipe for immutable
2527 functionality (thanks Dave Rolsky)
2529 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe9
2530 - added new recipe for builder and
2531 lazy_build (thanks Dave Rolsky)
2533 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe11
2534 - added new recipe for method aliasing
2535 and exclusion with Roles (thanks Dave Rolsky)
2538 - fixed Win32 test failure (thanks spicyjack)
2540 ~ removed Build.PL and Module::Build compat
2541 since Module::Install has done that.
2543 0.43 Wed. April, 30, 2008
2545 drink more coffee before
2546 doing release engineering
2548 - whoops, forgot to do the smolder tests,
2549 and we broke some of the custom meta-attr
2550 modules. This fixes that.
2552 0.42 Mon. April 28, 2008
2553 - some bad tests slipped by, nothing else
2554 changed in this release (cpantesters++)
2556 - upped the Class::MOP dependency to 0.55
2557 since we have tests which need the C3
2560 0.41 Mon. April 28, 2008
2561 ~~ numerous documentation updates ~~
2563 - Changed all usage of die to Carp::croak for better
2564 error reporting (initial patch by Tod Hagan)
2566 ** IMPORTANT NOTE **
2567 - the make_immutable keyword is now deprecated, don't
2568 use it in any new code and please fix your old code
2569 as well. There will be 2 releases, and then it will
2575 - refactored the way inner and super work to avoid
2576 any method/@ISA cache penalty (nothingmuch)
2578 * Moose::Meta::Class
2579 - fixing &new_object to make sure trigger gets the
2580 coerced value (spotted by Charles Alderman on the
2582 - added test for this
2584 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2585 - immutable classes which had non-lazy attributes were calling
2586 the default generating sub twice in the constructor. (bug
2587 found by Jesse Luehrs, fixed by Dave Rolsky)
2588 - added tests for this (Dave Rolsky)
2589 - fix typo in initialize_body method (nothingmuch)
2591 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
2592 - fix typo in initialize_body method (nothingmuch)
2594 * Moose::Meta::Method::Overriden
2595 Moose::Meta::Method::Augmented
2596 - moved the logic for these into their own
2597 classes (nothingmuch)
2599 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2600 - inherited attributes may now be extended without
2601 restriction on the type ('isa', 'does') (Sartak)
2602 - added tests for this (Sartak)
2603 - when an attribute property is malformed (such as lazy without
2604 a default), give the name of the attribute in the error
2606 - added the &applied_traits and &has_applied_traits methods
2607 to allow introspection of traits
2608 - added tests for this
2609 - moved 'trait' and 'metaclass' argument handling to here from
2611 - clone_and_inherit_options now handles 'trait' and 'metaclass' (has
2612 '+foo' syntax) (nothingmuch)
2613 - added tests for this (t0m)
2616 - localize $@ inside DEMOLISHALL to avoid it
2617 eating $@ (found by Ernesto)
2618 - added test for this (thanks to Ernesto)
2620 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2621 - &find_type_constraint now DWIMs when given an
2622 type constraint object or name (nothingmuch)
2623 - &find_or_create_type_constraint superseded with a number of more
2625 - find_or_create_{isa,does}_type_constraint
2626 - find_or_parse_type_constraint
2628 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2629 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class
2630 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Role
2631 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Enum
2632 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
2633 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
2634 - added the &equals method for comparing two type
2635 constraints (nothingmuch)
2636 - added tests for this (nothingmuch)
2638 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2639 - add the &parents method, which is just an alias to &parent.
2640 Useful for polymorphism with TC::{Class,Role,Union} (nothingmuch)
2642 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Class
2643 - added the class attribute for introspection purposes
2645 - added tests for this
2647 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Enum
2648 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Role
2649 - broke these out into their own classes (nothingmuch)
2651 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe*
2652 - fixed references to test file locations in the POD
2653 and updated up some text for new Moose features
2657 - Added &resolve_metaclass_alias, a helper function for finding an actual
2658 class for a short name (e.g. in the traits list)
2660 0.40 Fri. March 14, 2008
2661 - I hate Pod::Coverage
2663 0.39 Fri. March 14, 2008
2665 - documenting the use of '+name' with attributes
2666 that come from recently composed roles. It makes
2667 sense, people are using it, and so why not just
2668 officially support it.
2669 - fixing the 'extends' keyword so that it will not
2670 trigger Ovid's bug (http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/35763)
2673 - added the perl -Moose=+Class::Name feature to allow
2674 monkeypatching of classes in one liners
2677 - fixing the 'apply_all_roles' keyword so that it will not
2678 trigger Ovid's bug (http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/35763)
2680 * Moose::Meta::Class
2681 - added ->create method which now supports roles (thanks to jrockway)
2682 - added tests for this
2683 - added ->create_anon_class which now supports roles and caching of
2684 the results (thanks to jrockway)
2685 - added tests for this
2686 - made ->does_role a little more forgiving when it is
2687 checking a Class::MOP era metaclasses.
2689 * Moose::Meta::Role::Application::ToInstance
2690 - it is now possible to pass extra params to be used when
2691 a role is applied to an the instance (rebless_params)
2692 - added tests for this
2694 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2695 - class_type now accepts an optional second argument for a
2696 custom message. POD anotated accordingly (groditi)
2697 - added tests for this
2698 - it is now possible to make anon-enums by passing 'enum' an
2699 ARRAY ref instead of the $name => @values. Everything else
2701 - added tests for this
2704 - making test for using '+name' on attributes consumed
2705 from a role, it works and makes sense too.
2707 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2708 - fix handles so that it doesn't return nothing
2709 when the method cannot be found, not sure why
2710 it ever did this originally, this means we now
2711 have slightly better support for AUTOLOADed
2713 - added more delegation tests
2714 - adding ->does method to this so as to better
2715 support traits and their introspection.
2716 - added tests for this
2719 - localizing the Data::Dumper configurations so
2720 that it does not pollute others (RT #33509)
2721 - made ->does a little more forgiving when it is
2722 passed Class::MOP era metaclasses.
2724 0.38 Fri. Feb. 15, 2008
2725 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2726 - fixed initializer to correctly do
2727 type checking and coercion in the
2729 - added tests for this
2732 - fixed some finicky tests (thanks to konobi)
2734 0.37 Thurs. Feb. 14, 2008
2736 - fixed some details in Moose::init_meta
2737 and its superclass handling (thanks thepler)
2738 - added tests for this (thanks thepler)
2739 - 'has' now dies if you don't pass in name
2741 - added the 'make_immutable' keyword as a shortcut
2744 * Moose::Meta::Class
2745 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2746 Moose::Meta::Attribute
2747 - making (init_arg => undef) work here too
2748 (thanks to nothingmuch)
2750 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2751 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2752 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2753 - make lazy attributes respect attr initializers (rjbs)
2754 - added tests for this
2756 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2757 Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::OptimizedConstraints
2758 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraints
2759 Moose::Meta::Attribute
2760 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2761 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2762 - making type errors use the
2763 assigned message (thanks to Sartak)
2764 - added tests for this
2766 * Moose::Meta::Method::Destructor
2767 - making sure DESTROY gets inlined properly
2768 with successive DEMOLISH calls (thanks to manito)
2770 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2771 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2772 - fixed handling of undef with type constraints
2774 - added tests for this
2777 - added &get_all_init_args and &get_all_attribute_values
2778 (thanks to Sartak and nothingmuch)
2780 0.36 Sat. Jan. 26, 2008
2782 Moose::Meta::Attribute
2783 - role type tests now support when roles are
2784 applied to non-Moose classes (found by ash)
2785 - added tests for this (thanks to ash)
2786 - couple extra tests to boost code coverage
2788 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2789 - improved fix for handling Class::MOP attributes
2790 - added test for this
2792 * Moose::Meta::Class
2793 - handled the add_attribute($attribute_meta_object)
2795 - added test for this
2797 0.35 Tues. Jan. 22, 2008
2798 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2799 - fix to make sure even Class::MOP attributes
2800 are handled correctly (Thanks to Dave Rolsky)
2801 - added test for this (also Dave Rolsky)
2803 * Moose::Meta::Class
2804 - improved error message on _apply_all_roles,
2805 you should now use Moose::Util::apply_all_roles
2806 and you shouldnt have been using a _ prefixed
2807 method in the first place ;)
2809 0.34 Mon. Jan. 21, 2008
2810 ~~~ more misc. doc. fixes ~~~
2811 ~~ updated copyright dates ~~
2813 Moose is now a postmodern object system :)
2814 - (see the POD for details)
2816 * <<Role System Refactoring>>
2817 - this release contains a major reworking and
2818 cleanup of the role system
2819 - 100% backwards compat.
2820 - Role application now restructured into seperate
2821 classes based on type of applicants
2822 - Role summation (combining of more than one role)
2823 is much cleaner and anon-classes are no longer
2824 used in this process
2825 - new Composite role metaclass
2826 - runtime application of roles to instances
2827 is now more efficient and re-uses generated
2828 classes when applicable
2830 * <<New Role composition features>>
2831 - methods can now be excluded from a given role
2833 - methods can now be aliased to another name (and
2834 still retain the original as well)
2836 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::OptimizedConstraints
2837 - added this module (see above)
2839 * Moose::Meta::Class
2840 - fixed the &_process_attribute method to be called
2841 by &add_attribute, so that the API is now correct
2843 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2844 - fixed bug when passing a list of values to
2845 an accessor would get (incorrectly) ignored.
2846 Thanks to Sartak for finding this ;)
2847 - added tests for this (Sartak again)
2849 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2850 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2851 Moose::Meta::Attribute
2852 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2853 Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
2854 - lots of cleanup of such things as:
2856 - type constraint handling
2857 - error handling/messages
2858 (thanks to nothingmuch)
2860 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterizable
2861 - added this module to support the refactor
2862 in Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
2864 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
2865 - refactored how these types are handled so they
2866 are more generic and not confined to ArrayRef
2870 - shortened some file names for better VMS support (RT #32381)
2872 0.33 Fri. Dec. 14, 2007
2873 !! Moose now loads 2 x faster !!
2874 !! with new Class::MOP 0.49 !!
2876 ++ new oose.pm module to make command line
2877 Moose-ness easier (see POD docs for more)
2879 * Moose::Meta::Class
2881 - several tweaks to take advantage of the
2882 new method map caching in Class::MOP
2884 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
2885 - allow subtypes of ArrayRef and HashRef to
2886 be used as a container (sartak)
2887 - added tests for this
2888 - basic support for coercion to ArrayRef and
2889 HashRef for containers (sartak)
2890 - added tests for this
2892 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
2893 - coercions will now create subtypes as needed
2894 so you can now add coercions to parameterized
2895 types without having to explictly define them
2896 - added tests for this
2898 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2899 - allow subclasses to decide whether we need
2900 to copy the value into a new variable (sartak)
2902 0.32 Tues. Dec. 4, 2007
2903 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2904 - fixing how subtype aliases of unions work
2905 they should inherit the parent's coercion
2906 - added tests for this
2907 - you can now define multiple coercions on
2908 a single type at different times instead of
2909 having to do it all in one place
2910 - added tests for this
2912 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
2913 - there is now a default constraint of sub { 1 }
2914 instead of Moose::Util::TypeConstraints setting
2917 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
2918 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion::Union
2919 - added the &has_coercion_for_type and
2920 &add_type_coercions methods to support the
2921 new features above (although you cannot add
2922 more type coercions for Union types)
2924 0.31 Mon. Nov. 26, 2007
2925 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2926 - made the +attr syntax handle extending types with
2927 parameters. So "has '+foo' => (isa => 'ArrayRef[Int]')"
2928 now works if the original foo is an ArrayRef.
2929 - added tests for this.
2930 - delegation now works even if the attribute does not
2931 have a reader method using the get_read_method_ref
2932 method from Class::MOP::Attribute.
2933 - added tests for this
2934 - added docs for this
2936 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2937 - passing no "additional attribute info" to
2938 &find_or_create_type_constraint will no longer
2939 attempt to create an __ANON__ type for you,
2940 instead it will just return undef.
2941 - added docs for this
2943 0.30 Fri. Nov. 23, 2007
2944 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2945 -builder related bug in inlined constructor. (groditi)
2947 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2948 - genereate unnecessary calls to predicates and refactor
2949 code generation for runtime speed (groditi)
2951 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
2952 - fix ClassName constraint to introspect symbol table (mst)
2953 - added more tests for this (mst)
2954 - fixed it so that subtype 'Foo' => as 'HashRef[Int]' ...
2955 with work correctly.
2956 - added tests for this
2959 - adding the link to Recipie 11 (written by Sartak)
2960 - adding test for SYNOPSIS code
2963 - New tests for builder bug. Upon instantiation, if an
2964 attribute had a builder, no value and was not lazy the
2965 builder default was not getting run, oops. (groditi)
2967 0.29 Tues. Nov. 13, 2007
2968 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2969 - Fix error message on missing builder method (groditi)
2971 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2972 - Fix error message on missing builder method (groditi)
2975 - Add test to check for the correct error message when
2976 builder method is missing (groditi)
2978 0.28 Tues. Nov. 13, 2007
2979 - 0.27 packaged incorrectly (groditi)
2981 0.27 Tues. Nov. 13, 2007
2982 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
2983 - Added support for the new builder option (groditi)
2984 - Added support for lazy_build option (groditi)
2985 - Changed slot initialization for predicate changes (groditi)
2987 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
2988 - Added support for lazy_build option (groditi)
2989 - Fix inline methods to work with corrected predicate
2992 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
2993 - Added support for lazy_build option (groditi)
2996 - tests for builder and lazy_build (groditi)
2998 * fixing some misc. bits in the docs that
2999 got mentioned on CPAN Forum & perlmonks
3002 - fixed how required methods are handled
3003 when they encounter overriden or modified
3004 methods from a class (thanks to confound).
3005 - added tests for this
3007 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraint
3008 - fixed the type notation parser so that
3009 the | always creates a union and so is
3010 no longer a valid type char (thanks to
3011 konobi, mugwump and #moose for working
3013 - added more tests for this
3015 0.26 Thurs. Sept. 27, 2007
3018 * Parameterized Types
3019 We now support parameterized collection types, such as:
3020 ArrayRef[Int] # array or integers
3021 HashRef[Object] # a hash with object values
3022 They can also be nested:
3023 ArrayRef[HashRef[RegexpRef]] # an array of hashes with regex values
3024 And work with the type unions as well:
3025 ArrayRef[Int | Str] # array of integers of strings
3027 * Better Framework Extendability
3028 Moose.pm is now "extendable" such that it is now much
3029 easier to extend the framework and add your own keywords
3030 and customizations. See the "EXTENDING AND EMBEDDING MOOSE"
3031 section of the Moose.pm docs.
3034 In an effort to begin documenting some of the various
3035 details of Moose as well as some common idioms, we have
3036 created Moose::Cookbook::Snacks as a place to find
3037 small (easily digestable) nuggets of Moose code.
3040 ~ Several doc updates/cleanup thanks to castaway ~
3042 - converted build system to use Module::Install instead of
3043 Module::Build (thanks to jrockway)
3046 - added all the meta classes to the immutable list and
3047 set it to inline the accessors
3048 - fix import to allow Sub::Exporter like { into => }
3049 and { into_level => } (perigrin)
3050 - exposed and documented init_meta() to allow better
3051 embedding and extending of Moose (perigrin)
3054 - complete re-organization of the test suite
3055 - added some new tests as well
3056 - finally re-enabled the Moose::POOP test since
3057 the new version of DBM::Deep now works again
3060 * Moose::Meta::Class
3061 - fixed very odd and very nasty recursion bug with
3063 - added tests for this (eilara)
3065 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3066 Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
3067 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
3068 - fixed issue with overload::Overloaded getting called
3069 on non-blessed items. (RT #29269)
3070 - added tests for this
3072 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
3073 - fixed issue with generated accessor code making
3074 assumptions about hash based classes (thanks to dexter)
3076 * Moose::Coookbook::Snacks
3077 - these are bits of documentation, not quite as big as
3078 Recipes but which have no clear place in the module docs.
3079 So they are Snacks! (horray for castaway++)
3081 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe4
3082 - updated it to use the new ArrayRef[MyType] construct
3083 - updated the accompanying test as well
3085 +++ Major Refactor of the Type Constraint system +++
3086 +++ with new features added as well +++
3088 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraint
3089 - no longer uses package variable to keep track of
3090 the type constraints, now uses the an instance of
3091 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Registry to do it
3092 - added more sophisticated type notation parsing
3094 - added tests for this
3096 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3097 - some minor adjustments to make subclassing easier
3098 - added the package_defined_in attribute so that we
3099 can track where the type constraints are created
3101 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
3102 - this is now been refactored to be a subclass of
3103 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3105 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion::Union
3106 - this has been added to service the newly refactored
3107 Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union and is itself
3108 a subclass of Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
3110 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Parameterized
3111 - added this module (taken from MooseX::AttributeHelpers)
3112 to help construct nested collection types
3113 - added tests for this
3115 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Registry
3116 - added this class to keep track of type constraints
3118 0.25 Mon. Aug. 13, 2007
3120 - Documentation update to reference Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3121 under 'isa' in 'has' for how to define a new type
3122 (thanks to shlomif).
3124 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3125 - required attributes now will no longer accept undef
3126 from the constructor, even if there is a default and lazy
3127 - added tests for this
3128 - default subroutines must return a value which passes the
3130 - added tests for this
3132 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3133 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
3134 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
3135 - type-constraint tests now handle overloaded objects correctly
3136 in the error message
3137 - added tests for this (thanks to EvanCarroll)
3139 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
3140 - added (has_)hand_optimized_constraint to this class so that
3141 it behaves as the regular Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint does.
3144 - large refactoring of this code
3145 - added several more tests
3146 - tests for subtle conflict resolition issues
3147 added, but not currently running
3150 * Moose::Cookbook::Recipe7
3151 - added new recipe for augment/inner functionality
3153 - added test for this
3156 - a formal definition of roles (still in progress)
3159 - utilities for easier working with Moose classes
3160 - added tests for these
3163 - This contains Moose specific test functions
3164 - added tests for these
3166 0.24 Tues. July 3, 2007
3167 ~ Some doc updates/cleanup ~
3169 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3170 - added support for roles to be given as parameters
3171 to the 'handles' option.
3172 - added tests and docs for this
3173 - the has '+foo' attribute form now accepts changes to
3174 the lazy option, and the addition of a handles option
3175 (but not changing the handles option)
3176 - added tests and docs for this
3179 - required methods are now fetched using find_method_by_name
3180 so that required methods can come from superclasses
3181 - adjusted tests for this
3183 0.23 Mon. June 18, 2007
3184 * Moose::Meta::Method::Constructor
3185 - fix inlined constructor for hierarchy with multiple BUILD methods (mst)
3186 * Moose::Meta::Class
3187 - Modify make_immutable to work with the new Class::MOP immutable
3188 mechanism + POD + very basic test (groditi)
3189 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3190 - Fix handles to use goto() so that caller() comes out properly on
3191 the other side (perigrin)
3193 0.22 Thurs. May 31, 2007
3194 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3195 - fix for prototype undeclared issue when Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3196 loaded before consumers (e.g. Moose::Meta::Attribute) by predeclaring
3197 prototypes for functions
3198 - added the ClassName type constraint, this checks for strings
3199 which will respond true to ->isa(UNIVERSAL).
3200 - added tests and docs for this
3201 - subtyping just in name now works correctly by making the
3202 default for where be { 1 }
3203 - added test for this
3205 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
3206 - coerce and lazy now work together correctly, thanks to
3207 merlyn for finding this bug
3208 - tests added for this
3209 - fix reader presedence bug in Moose::Meta::Attribute + tests
3212 - Foo->new(undef) now gets ignored, it is assumed you meant to pass
3213 a HASH-ref and missed. This produces better error messages then
3214 having it die cause undef is not a HASH.
3215 - added tests for this
3217 0.21 Thursday, May 2nd, 2007
3219 - added SUPER_SLOT and INNER_SLOT class hashes to support unimport
3220 - modified unimport to remove super and inner along with the rest
3221 - altered unimport tests to handle this
3224 - altered super export to populate SUPER_SLOT
3226 * Moose::Meta::Class
3227 - altered augment and override modifier application to use *_SLOT
3228 - modified tests for these to unimport one test class each to test
3231 - fixed issue where custom attribute metaclasses
3232 where not handled correctly in roles
3233 - added tests for this
3235 * Moose::Meta::Class
3236 - fixed issue where extending metaclasses with
3237 roles would blow up. Thanks to Aankhen`` for
3238 finding this insidious error, and it's solution.
3240 ~~ lots of spelling and grammer fixes in the docs,
3241 many many thanks to rlb3 and Aankhen for these :)
3243 0.20 Friday, April 6th, 2007
3244 >> I messed up the SKIP logic in one test
3245 so this release is just to fix that.
3248 - 'has' now also accepts an ARRAY ref
3249 to create multiple attrs (see docs)
3250 (thanks to konobi for this)
3251 - added tests and docs
3253 0.19 Thurs. April 5th, 2007
3254 ~~ More documentation updates ~~
3256 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3257 - 'type' now supports messages as well
3258 thanks to phaylon for finding this
3259 - added tests for this
3260 - added &list_all_type_constraints and
3261 &list_all_builtin_type_constraints
3262 functions to facilitate introspection.
3264 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3265 - fixed regexp 'handles' declarations
3266 to build the list of delegated methods
3267 correctly (and not override important
3268 things like &new) thanks to ashleyb
3270 - added tests and docs for this
3271 - added the 'documentation' attributes
3272 so that you can actually document your
3273 attributes and inspect them through the
3275 - added tests and docs for this
3277 * Moose::Meta::Class
3278 - when loading custom attribute metaclasses
3279 it will first look in for the class in the
3280 Moose::Meta::Attribute::Custom::$name, and
3281 then default to just loading $name.
3282 - added tests and docs for this
3284 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3285 - type constraints now stringify to their names.
3286 - added test for this
3289 - added tests to assure we work with Module::Refresh
3290 - added stricter test skip logic in the Moose POOP
3291 test, ask Rob Kinyon why.
3292 - *cough* DBM::Deep 1.0 backwards compatibility sucks *cough* ;)
3294 0.18 Sat. March 10, 2007
3295 ~~ Many, many documentation updates ~~
3298 - We now use Class::MOP::load_class to
3300 - added tests to show types and subtypes
3301 working with Declare::Constraints::Simple
3302 and Test::Deep as constraint engines.
3305 !! You must have Class::MOP 0.37_001 !!
3306 !! for this developer release to work !!
3308 This release was primarily adding the immutable
3309 feature to Moose. An immutable class is one which
3310 you promise not to alter. When you set the class
3311 as immutable it will perform various bits of
3312 memoization and inline certain part of the code
3313 (constructors, destructors and accessors). This
3314 minimizes (and in some cases totally eliminates)
3315 one of Moose's biggest performance hits. This
3316 feature is not on by default, and is 100% optional.
3317 It has several configurable bits as well, so you
3318 can pick and choose to your specific needs.
3320 The changes involved in this were fairly wide and
3321 highly specific, but 100% backwards compatible, so
3322 I am not going to enumerate them here. If you are
3323 truely interested in what was changed, please do
3326 0.17 Tues. Nov. 14, 2006
3327 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
3328 - bugfix for read-only accessors which
3329 are have a type constraint and lazy.
3330 Thanks to chansen for finding it.
3332 0.16 Tues. Nov. 14, 2006
3334 There are some speed improvements in this release,
3335 but they are only the begining, so stay tuned.
3338 - BUILDALL and DEMOLISHALL no longer get
3339 called unless they actually need to be.
3340 This gave us a signifigant speed boost
3341 for the cases when there is no BUILD or
3342 DEMOLISH method present.
3344 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3345 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3346 - added an 'optimize_as' option to the
3347 type constraint, which allows for a
3348 hand optimized version of the type
3349 constraint to be used when possible.
3350 - Any internally created type constraints
3351 now provide an optimized version as well.
3353 0.15 Sun. Nov. 5, 2006
3355 This version of Moose *must* have Class::MOP 0.36 in order
3356 to work correctly. A number of small internal tweaks have
3357 been made in order to be compatible with that release.
3359 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3360 - added &unimport so that you can clean out
3361 your class namespace of these exported
3364 * Moose::Meta::Class
3365 - fixed minor issue which occasionally
3366 comes up during global destruction
3368 - moved Moose::Meta::Method::Overriden into
3372 - moved Moose::Meta::Role::Method into
3375 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3376 - changed how we do type checks so that
3377 we reduce the overall cost, but still
3380 - moved accessor generation methods to
3381 Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor to
3382 conform to the API changes from
3385 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3386 - changed how constraints are compiled
3387 so that we do less recursion and more
3388 iteration. This makes the type check
3390 - moved Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
3393 * Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor
3394 - created this from methods formerly found in
3395 Moose::Meta::Attribute
3397 * Moose::Meta::Role::Method
3398 - moved this from Moose::Meta::Role
3400 * Moose::Meta::Method::Overriden
3401 - moved this from Moose::Meta::Class
3403 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
3404 - moved this from Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3406 0.14 Mon. Oct. 9, 2006
3408 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3409 - fixed lazy attributes which were not getting
3410 checked with the type constraint (thanks ashley)
3411 - added tests for this
3412 - removed the over-enthusiastic DWIMery of the
3413 automatic ArrayRef and HashRef defaults, it
3414 broke predicates in an ugly way.
3415 - removed tests for this
3417 0.13 Sat. Sept. 30, 2006
3419 This version of Moose *must* have Class::MOP 0.35 in order
3420 to work correctly. A number of small internal tweaks have
3421 been made in order to be compatible with that release.
3424 - Removed the use of UNIVERSAL::require to be a better
3425 symbol table citizen and remove a dependency
3426 (thanks Adam Kennedy)
3428 **~~ removed experimental & undocumented feature ~~**
3429 - commented out the 'method' and 'self' keywords, see the
3430 comments for more info.
3433 - added a FAQ and WTF files to document frequently
3434 asked questions and common problems
3436 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3437 - added GlobRef and FileHandle type constraint
3438 - added tests for this
3440 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3441 - if your attribute 'isa' ArrayRef of HashRef, and you have
3442 not explicitly set a default, then make the default DWIM.
3443 This will also work for subtypes of ArrayRef and HashRef
3445 - you can now auto-deref subtypes of ArrayRef or HashRef too.
3446 - new test added for this (thanks to ashley)
3449 - added basic support for runtime role composition
3450 but this is still *highly experimental*, so feedback
3451 is much appreciated :)
3452 - added tests for this
3454 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3455 - the type constraint now handles the coercion process
3456 through delegation, this is to support the coercion
3459 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint::Union
3460 - it is now possible for coercions to be performed
3462 - added tests for this (thanks to konobi)
3464 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
3465 - properly capturing error when type constraint
3469 - Scalar::Util 1.18 is bad on Win32, so temporarily
3470 only require version 1.17 for Win32 and cygwin.
3471 (thanks Adam Kennedy)
3473 0.12 Sat. Sept. 1, 2006
3475 - Recipe5 (subtypes & coercion) has been written
3478 - fixed "bad meta" error message to be more descriptive
3479 - fixed &unimport to not remove the &inner and &super
3480 keywords because we need to localize them.
3481 - fixed number of spelling/grammer issues, thanks Theory :)
3483 **~~ experimental & undocumented feature ~~**
3484 - added the method and self keywords, they are basically
3485 just sugar, and they may not stay around.
3488 - added &dump method to easily Data::Dumper
3491 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3492 - added the &is_a_type_of method to check both the current
3493 and the subtype of a method (similar to &isa with classes)
3496 - this is now a subclass of Class::MOP::Module, and no longer
3497 creates the _role_meta ugliness of before.
3498 - fixed tests to reflect this change
3500 0.11 Wed. July 12, 2006
3502 - added an &unimport method to remove all the keywords
3503 that Moose will import, simply add 'no Moose' to the
3504 bottom of your class file.
3507 - fixed some test failures caused by a forgotten test
3510 0.10 Thurs. July 6, 2006
3512 - improved error message when loading modules so
3513 it is less confusing when you load a role.
3514 - added &calculate_all_roles method to
3515 Moose::Meta::Class and Moose::Meta::Role
3518 This module has been tested against Class::MOP 0.30
3519 but it does not yet utilize the optimizations
3520 it makes available. Stay tuned for that ;)
3522 0.09_03 Fri. June 23, 2006
3523 ++ DEVELOPER RELEASE ++
3525 - 'use strict' and 'use warnings' are no longer
3526 needed in Moose classes, Moose itself will
3527 turn them on for you.
3528 - added tests for this
3529 - moved code from exported subs to private methods
3530 in Moose::Meta::Class
3533 - as with Moose, strict and warnings are
3534 automatically turned on for you.
3535 - added tests for this
3538 - now handles an edge case for override errors
3539 - added tests for this
3540 - added some more edge case tests
3542 0.09_02 Tues. May 16, 2006
3543 ++ DEVELOPER RELEASE ++
3545 - added prototypes to the exported subs
3549 - added prototypes to the exported subs
3552 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3553 - cleaned up prototypes for the subs
3556 0.09_01 Fri. May 12, 2006
3557 ++ DEVELOPER RELEASE ++
3558 - This release works in combination with
3559 Class::MOP 0.29_01, it is a developer
3560 release because it uses the a new
3561 instance sub-protocol and a fairly
3562 complete Role implementation. It has
3563 not yet been optimized, so it slower
3564 the the previous CPAN version. This
3565 release also lacks good updated docs,
3566 the official release will have updated docs.
3569 - refactored the keyword exports
3570 - 'with' now checks Role validaity and
3571 accepts more than one Role at a time
3572 - 'extends' makes metaclass adjustments as
3573 needed to ensure metaclass compatibility
3576 - refactored the keyword exports
3577 - 'with' now checks Role validaity and
3578 accepts more than one Role at a time
3580 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3581 - added the 'enum' keyword for simple
3582 string enumerations which can be used as
3584 - see example of usage in t/202_example.t
3587 - more careful checking of params to new()
3590 - much work done on the role composition
3591 - many new tests for conflict detection
3592 and composition edge cases
3593 - not enough documentation, I suggest
3594 looking at the tests
3596 * Moose::Meta::Instance
3597 - added new Instance metaclass to support
3598 the new Class::MOP instance protocol
3600 * Moose::Meta::Class
3601 - some small changes to support the new
3603 - some small additions to support Roles
3605 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3606 - some improvements to the accessor generation code
3608 - some small changes to support the new
3610 - (still somewhat) experimental delegation support
3611 with the 'handles' option
3612 - added several tests for this
3613 - no docs for this yet
3615 0.05 Thurs. April 27, 2006
3617 - keywords are now exported with Sub::Exporter
3618 thanks to chansen for this commit
3619 - has keyword now takes a 'metaclass' option
3620 to support custom attribute meta-classes
3621 on a per-attribute basis
3622 - added tests for this
3623 - the 'has' keyword not accepts inherited slot
3624 specifications (has '+foo'). This is still an
3625 experimental feature and probably not finished
3626 see t/038_attribute_inherited_slot_specs.t for
3627 more details, or ask about it on #moose
3628 - added tests for this
3631 - keywords are now exported with Sub::Exporter
3633 * Moose::Utils::TypeConstraints
3634 - reorganized the type constraint hierarchy, thanks
3635 to nothingmuch and chansen for his help and advice
3637 - added some tests for this
3638 - keywords are now exported with Sub::Exporter
3639 thanks to chansen for this commit
3641 * Moose::Meta::Class
3642 - due to changes in Class::MOP, we had to change
3643 construct_instance (for the better)
3645 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3646 - due to changes in Class::MOP, we had to add the
3647 initialize_instance_slot method (it's a good thing)
3649 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3650 - added type constraint unions
3651 - added tests for this
3652 - added the is_subtype_of predicate method
3653 - added tests for this
3655 0.04 Sun. April 16th, 2006
3657 - Roles can now consume other roles
3658 - added tests for this
3659 - Roles can specify required methods now with
3660 the requires() keyword
3661 - added tests for this
3664 - ripped out much of it's guts ,.. much cleaner now
3665 - added required methods and correct handling of
3666 them in apply() for both classes and roles
3667 - added tests for this
3668 - no longer adds a does() method to consuming classes
3669 it relys on the one in Moose::Object
3670 - added roles attribute and some methods to support
3671 roles consuming roles
3673 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3674 - added support for triggers on attributes
3675 - added tests for this
3676 - added support for does option on an attribute
3677 - added tests for this
3679 * Moose::Meta::Class
3680 - added support for attribute triggers in the
3682 - added tests for this
3685 - Moose no longer creates a subtype for your class
3686 if a subtype of the same name already exists, this
3687 should DWIM in 99.9999% of all cases
3689 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3690 - fixed bug where incorrect subtype conflicts were
3692 - added test for this
3695 - this class can now be extended with 'use base' if
3696 you need it, it properly loads the metaclass class now
3697 - added test for this
3699 0.03_02 Wed. April 12, 2006
3701 - you must now explictly use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3702 it no longer gets exported for you automatically
3705 - new() now accepts hash-refs as well as key/value lists
3706 - added does() method to check for Roles
3707 - added tests for this
3709 * Moose::Meta::Class
3710 - added roles attribute along with the add_role() and
3712 - added tests for this
3715 - now adds a does() method to consuming classes
3716 which tests the class's hierarchy for roles
3717 - added tests for this
3719 0.03_01 Mon. April 10, 2006
3721 - added new Role recipe (no content yet, only code)
3724 - added 'with' keyword for Role support
3725 - added test and docs for this
3726 - fixed subtype quoting bug
3727 - added test for this
3731 - added test and docs
3733 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3734 - added the message keyword to add custom
3735 error messages to type constraints
3738 - the meta role to support Moose::Role
3739 - added tests and docs
3741 * Moose::Meta::Class
3742 - moved a number of things from Moose.pm
3743 to here, they should have been here
3746 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3747 - moved the attribute option macros here
3748 instead of putting them in Moose.pm
3750 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3751 - added the message attributes and the
3753 - added tests and docs for this
3755 0.03 Thurs. March 30, 2006
3757 - added the Moose::Cookbook with 5 recipes,
3758 describing all the stuff Moose can do.
3761 - fixed an issue with &extends super class loading
3762 it now captures errors and deals with inline
3763 packages correctly (bug found by mst, solution
3765 - added super/override & inner/augment features
3766 - added tests and docs for these
3769 - BUILDALL now takes a reference of the %params
3770 that are passed to &new, and passes that to
3773 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3774 - Type constraints now survive runtime reloading
3775 - added test for this
3777 * Moose::Meta::Class
3778 - fixed the way attribute defaults are handled
3779 during instance construction (bug found by chansen)
3781 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3782 - read-only attributes now actually enforce their
3783 read-only-ness (this corrected in Class::MOP as
3786 0.02 Tues. March 21, 2006
3788 - many more tests, fixing some bugs and
3790 - &extends now loads the base module with
3792 - added UNIVERSAL::require to the
3795 - each new Moose class will also create
3796 and register a subtype of Object which
3797 correspond to the new Moose class.
3798 - the 'isa' option in &has now only
3799 accepts strings, and will DWIM in
3802 * Moose::Util::TypeConstraints
3803 - added type coercion features
3804 - added tests for this
3805 - added support for this in attributes
3806 and instance construction
3808 - type construction no longer creates a
3809 function, it registers the type instead.
3810 - added several functions to get the
3814 - BUILDALL and DEMOLISHALL were broken
3815 because of a mis-named hash key, Whoops :)
3817 * Moose::Meta::Attribute
3818 - adding support for coercion in the
3819 autogenerated accessors
3821 * Moose::Meta::Class
3822 - adding support for coercion in the
3823 instance construction
3825 * Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint
3826 * Moose::Meta::TypeCoercion
3827 - type constraints and coercions are now
3828 full fledges meta-objects
3830 0.01 Wed. March 15, 2006
3831 - Moooooooooooooooooose!!!
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