MooseX::Types::LoadableClass(3)

NAME
MooseX::Types::LoadableClass - ClassName type constraint with coercion to load the class.

VERSION
version 0.015

SYNOPSIS
    package MyClass;
    use Moose;
    use MooseX::Types::LoadableClass qw/ LoadableClass /;

    has foobar_class => (
        is => 'ro',
        required => 1,
        isa => LoadableClass,
    );

    MyClass->new(foobar_class => 'FooBar'); # FooBar.pm is loaded or an
                                            # exception is thrown.

DESCRIPTION
    use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;

    my $tc = subtype as ClassName;
    coerce $tc, from Str, via { Class::Load::load_class($_); $_ };

I've written those three lines of code quite a lot of times, in quite a lot of places.

Now I don't have to.

TYPES EXPORTED

  "LoadableClass"
A normal class / package.

  "LoadableRole"
Like "LoadableClass", except the loaded package must be a Moose::Role.

SUPPORT
Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=MooseX-Types-LoadableClass> (or bug-MooseX-Types-LoadableClass@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-MooseX-Types-LoadableClass@rt.cpan.org>).

There is also a mailing list available for users of this distribution, at <http://lists.perl.org/list/moose.html>.

There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at "#moose" on "irc.perl.org" <irc://irc.perl.org/#moose>.

AUTHOR
Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>

CONTRIBUTORS

•   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

•   Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>

•   Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

•   Gregory Oschwald <goschwald@maxmind.com>

•   Сергей Романов <sromanov@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

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