MooseX::Types::LoadableClass(3)

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

VERSION
version 0.012

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.

AUTHOR
Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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.

CONTRIBUTORS

•   Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaaker <ilmari@ilmari.org>

•   Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

•   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>