Mason:...assMeta(3pm)

💖 Mason::Component::ClassMeta — the group chat lore drop 💖

okay bestie, so this is one of those User Contributed Perl Documentation pages, and the whole vibe is "what even IS my component, actually?" — no cap. It's the Mason:...assMeta(3pm) situation and we're gonna get into it. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

Mason::Component::ClassMeta — literally just meta-information about a Mason component class. that's it, that's the girl. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so like, inside a component, you can peek at your own lore like this:

# In a component:
My path is <% $.cmeta->path %>
My source file is <% $.cmeta->source_file %>

iconic. the cmeta method is your bestie here. 🫶

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

every single Mason::Component class has an associated Mason::Component::ClassMeta object attached to it, and that object is carrying the meta-information — like the component's path and its source file. and the way you get to it? the cmeta method. periodt. ✨

here's the whole cast of characters, one by one:

• class — the component class this meta object is associated with. its main character. 👑
• dir_path — the directory of the component path, relative to the component root. so for a component '/foo/bar', the dir_path is '/foo'. easy math, slay. 🍓
• is_top_level — whether the component counts as "top level", meaning it's accessible directly from "$interp->run" or a web request. if you need the deets, go look at "top_level_extensions" in Mason::Interp. iykyk. 🔥
• name — the component base name. so for component '/foo/bar', the name is 'bar'. the last name only, basically. 💜
• object_file — the object file that got produced from compiling the component. the ~after~ of the compilation process. 🧚
• path — the component path, relative to the component root — for example '/foo/bar'. 🌈
• source_file — the component source file. the origin story. ⭐

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Mason — go read that one too, bestie, it's the parent vibe. 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jonathan Swartz <swartz@pobox.com> — the legend who made this. we stan. 🎀

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💀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💀

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Jonathan Swartz.

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

ngl "free software" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that sentence and we love that for it. 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this was perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-05-27, and yes the footer really is that old — vintage, but make it iconic. 💅✨🌸