package MooseX::NonMoose; use Moose (); use Moose::Exporter; =head1 NAME MooseX::NonMoose - easy subclassing of non-Moose classes =head1 SYNOPSIS package Term::VT102::NBased; use Moose; use MooseX::NonMoose; extends 'Term::VT102'; has [qw/x_base y_base/] => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Int', default => 1, ); around x => sub { my $orig = shift; my $self = shift; $self->$orig(@_) + $self->x_base - 1; }; # ... (wrap other methods) no Moose; # no need to fiddle with inline_constructor here __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; my $vt = Term::VT102::NBased->new(x_base => 0, y_base => 0); =head1 DESCRIPTION C allows for easily subclassing non-Moose classes with Moose, taking care of the annoying details connected with doing this, such as setting up proper inheritance from L and installing (and inlining, at C time) a constructor that makes sure things like C methods are called. It tries to be as non-intrusive as possible - when this module is used, inheriting from non-Moose classes and inheriting from Moose classes should work identically, aside from the few caveats mentioned below. One of the goals of this module is that including it in a L-based package used across an entire application should be possible, without interfering with classes that only inherit from Moose modules, or even classes that don't inherit from anything at all. There are several ways to use this module. The most straightforward is to just C in your class; this should set up everything necessary for extending non-Moose modules. L and L can also be applied to your metaclasses manually, either by passing a C<-traits> option to your C line, or by applying them using L in a L-based package. L is the part that provides the main functionality of this module; if you don't care about inlining, this is all you need to worry about. Applying L as well will provide an inlined constructor when you immutabilize your class. C allows you to manipulate the argument list that gets passed to the superclass constructor by defining a C method. This is called with the same argument list as the C method, but should return a list of arguments to pass to the superclass constructor. This allows C to support superclasses whose constructors would get confused by the extra arguments that Moose requires (for attributes, etc.) =cut Moose::Exporter->setup_import_methods; sub init_meta { shift; my %options = @_; Moose->init_meta(%options); Moose::Util::MetaRole::apply_metaclass_roles( for_class => $options{for_class}, metaclass_roles => ['MooseX::NonMoose::Meta::Role::Class'], constructor_class_roles => ['MooseX::NonMoose::Meta::Role::Constructor'], ); return Class::MOP::class_of($options{for_class}); } =head1 TODO =over 4 =item * Allow for constructors with names other than C. =back =head1 BUGS/CAVEATS =over 4 =item * The reference that the non-Moose class uses as its instance type B match the instance type that Moose is using (currently, Moose defaults to hashref based instances). =item * Completely overriding the constructor in a class using C (i.e. using C) currently doesn't work, although using method modifiers on the constructor should work identically to normal Moose classes. =item * C currently assumes in several places that the superclass constructor will be called C. This may be made configurable in the future. =back Please report any bugs through RT: email C, or browse to L. =head1 SEE ALSO L L - serves the same purpose, but with a radically different (and far more hackish) implementation. =head1 SUPPORT You can find this documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc MooseX::NonMoose You can also look for information at: =over 4 =item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation L =item * CPAN Ratings L =item * RT: CPAN's request tracker L =item * Search CPAN L =back =head1 AUTHOR Jesse Luehrs =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Jesse Luehrs. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself. =cut 1;