MooseX...nitArg(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

MooseX::MultiInitArg — it's giving attributes with aliases for constructor arguments. bestie, one attribute, many names. iconic behavior honestly.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

package Thinger;
use Moose;
      use MooseX::MultiInitArg;

has 'data' => (
    metaclass => 'MultiInitArg',

    # For composability, you could use the following:
    # traits => ['MooseX::MultiInitArg::Trait'],

    is        => 'ro',
    isa       => 'Str',
    init_args => [qw(munge frobnicate)],
);

package main;

# All these are equivalent
my $foo = Thinger->new(data => 'foo');
my $foo = Thinger->new(munge => 'foo');
my $foo = Thinger->new(frobnicate => 'foo');

all three of those? same thing. literally the same object. no cap. 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: you've ever wanted to be able to call an attribute any number of things while you're passing arguments to your object constructor? Now You Can. 💅 periodt.

the primary motivator — and this is the real tea 🍓 — is that the author had some attributes that were named inconsistently, and wanted to rename them without breaking backwards compatibility with the existing API. the way that's such a mood. main character energy from a metaclass fr fr.

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Paul Driver, "<frodwith at cpan.org>" 🫶

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 👑

Copyright 2007-2013 by Paul Driver.

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

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it up 🌈💖

this little beauty came to you via perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-15, filed under MooseX...nitArg(3pm) — go forth and alias your init args, queen 👑✨