Class:...::Util(3pm)

okay bestie, welcome to the Class:...::Util(3pm) page from User Contributed Perl Documentation — this module is a lil Perl helper for factory classes and it’s lowkey serving utility-method realness. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

Class::Factory::Util — provide utility methods for factory classes. 💅

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

The vibe is literally this:

package My::Class;

use Class::Factory::Util;

My::Class->subclasses;

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This module exports a method that is useful for factory classes. That’s the description, bestie — short, sweet, and slay. 🫶

✨ USAGE ✨

Okay so here’s the tea: when this module is loaded, it creates a method in its caller named subclasses(). This method returns a list of the available subclasses for the package. It does this by looking in @INC as well as the directory containing the caller, and finding any modules in the immediate subdirectories of the calling module.

So if you have the modules Foo::Base, Foo::Base::Bar, and Foo::Base::Baz, then the return value of Foo::Base->subclasses() would be Bar and Baz. Periodt. 💚

🎀 SUPPORT 🎀

Please submit bugs to the CPAN RT system at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=class-factory-util or via email at bug-class-factory-util@rt.cpan.org. No cap, that’s where the bugs go. 🐛

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dave Rolsky, <autarch@urth.org>.

Removed from Alzabo and packaged by Terrence Brannon, <tbone@cpan.org>. Iconic collaboration behavior. 💜

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (c) 2003-2007 David Rolsky. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. Read the license, bestie — it’s giving important. ⭐

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later bestie, this manual page is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-02-06, and its manual name is Class:...::Util(3pm). 💖🎀