MooseX...orator(3pm)

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version 0.51 · 9 versions
, in fedora 43

💅 MooseX::Types::TypeDecorator

ok so bestie, welcome to the MooseX::Types::TypeDecorator page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — yes that's the manual name, we're in perl land now 🐪✨

🌸 VERSION

version 0.51 — that's the one, don't @ me.

🦋 DESCRIPTION

So basically, this is a decorator object that holds an underlying type constraint inside it. Like it's literally wearing the type constraint as an outfit 💅. We use it to control access to that type constraint and to sprinkle some extra features on top. Main character energy fr fr.

✨ METHODS

This class defines the following methods, and yes we're going through all of them 🎀

💖 new

Old school instantiation. That's it, that's the vibe. Classic, vintage, iconic.

💜 __type_constraint ($type_constraint)

Sets and/or gets the type_constraint. One method, two jobs, she's versatile like that 🫶

🌈 "isa"

This one handles $self->isa because AUTOLOAD literally can't — rip 😭. It tries both the type constraint, and for a class type, the class.

🍓 can

Handles $self->can since AUTOLOAD can't. Same struggle, same solution. No cap.

⭐ _throw_error

Properly delegates error messages. She's the messenger and she's not getting shot, ok? 💀

🧚 DESTROY

We might need it later. That's the whole description. Leaving it there for future us 👑.

🔥 AUTOLOAD

Okay this is the big one. It delegates to the decorator target, unless this is a class type — in which case it will try to delegate to the type object first, then if that fails, try the class.

⚠️ Heads up: the method 'new' is special cased to only be permitted on the class. So if there's no class, or the class doesn't provide a new method, an exception will be thrown. Periodt. Don't come for me when it throws.

🎀 SUPPORT

Got beef? Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=MooseX-Types> — or you can email bug-MooseX-Types@rt.cpan.org 💌

There's also a mailing list for users of this distribution, hanging out at <http://lists.perl.org/list/moose.html>.

And there's an irc channel for users of this distribution too — #moose on irc.perl.org <irc://irc.perl.org/#moose>. Come say hi 🌸

👑 AUTHOR

Robert "phaylon" Sedlacek <rs@474.at> — a legend, we stan.

This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Robert "phaylon" Sedlacek.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. Free as in, go off bestie 🦋

mkay that's the whole page!! this little writeup is perl v5.42.0, born 2025-07-25, and it's the MooseX::Types::TypeDecorator manual — catch you in the group chat 💖✨🫶

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