Class:...hildren(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

Class::Accessor::Children — automated child-class slash accessor generation, and yes bestie that's the whole vibe 💅

Like, this is the Class:...hildren(3pm) page you're reading rn, from the user-contributed Perl documentation corner of the internet, and it's about to make your life SO much easier.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so picture this: you're out here writing a whole bunch of baby classes by hand, and it's giving exhausting. Here's the before and after, because a glow-up deserves a before and after:

🙈 BEFORE (WITHOUT THIS)

package MyClass::Foo;
use base qw( Class:Accessor );
__PACKAGE__->mk_ro_accessors(qw( jacob michael joshua ethan ));

package MyClass::Bar;
use base qw( Class:Accessor );
__PACKAGE__->mk_ro_accessors(qw( emily emma madison isabella ));

package MyClass::Baz;
use base qw( Class:Accessor );
__PACKAGE__->mk_ro_accessors(qw( haruka haruto miyu yuto ));

👑 AFTER (WITH THIS)

package MyClass;
use base qw( Class::Accessor::Children );
__PACKAGE__->mk_child_ro_accessors(
    Foo => [qw( jacob michael joshua ethan )],
    Bar => [qw( emily emma madison isabella )],
    Baz => [qw( haruka haruto miyu yuto )],
);

not me writing three entire packages when ONE could've done it 😭 the after pic is literally main character energy.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This module automagically generates child classes which have accessor/mutator methods. No cap, it just does it for you. ✨

This module inherits "Class::Accessor" to make accessors. So all that accessor goodness you already know and love? It's coming along for the ride, bestie. 🫶

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💖 METHODS 💖

This module provides the following methods in addition to all methods provided by "Class::Accessor". So you get everything from the parent plus these three icons below. 🎀

🌈 mk_child_accessors

MyClass->mk_child_accessors( Foo => \@fields, ... );

This generates a child class named "MyClass::Foo" which have accessor/mutator methods each named in "\@fields". Both directions, read AND write, the full package. 💅

🍓 mk_child_ro_accessors

MyClass->mk_child_ro_accessors( Bar => \@fields, ... );

This generates a child class named "MyClass::Bar" which have read-only accessors (ie. true accessors). Look but don't touch, bestie, she's guarded. 🔒✨

🧚 mk_child_wo_accessors

MyClass->mk_child_wo_accessors( Baz => \@fields, ... );

This generates a child class named "MyClass::Baz" which have write-only accessor (ie. mutators). You can set it but you can't read it back, mysterious queen behaviour honestly 💀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Class::Accessor

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Yusuke Kawasaki <http://www.kawa.net/> — the icon, the legend, the moment. 👑

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⭐ COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE ⭐

Copyright (c) 2007 Yusuke Kawasaki. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Periodt. 💜

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okay and just so you have the receipts, this page came out of the perl v5.36.0 docs and it's dated 2022-12-11 — and it's filed under Class:...hildren(3pm) in the user contributed Perl documentation section. go forth and generate those children, bestie, slay 🌈💖