RE: defining my own parameterized types
[email protected] ("Mark Wood-Patrick")
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Some initial feedback, I was able to use this class in my code and it did what I needed so far Many thanks Mark -----Original Message----- From: Mark Wood-Patrick [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 8:44 AM To: 'John Napiorkowski'; [email protected] Subject: RE: defining my own parameterized types Many thanks looks useful I'll get back to you with feedback and any questions I have Mark -----Original Message----- From: John Napiorkowski [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 6:02 AM To: Mark Wood-Patrick; [email protected] Subject: Re: defining my own parameterized types >________________________________ >From: Mark Wood-Patrick <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 8:51 AM >Subject: defining my own parameterized types > > >I would like to add my own parameterized type e.g. I would like to be able to create types like: > > SzStr[32] I wrote http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?MooseX::Types::Parameterizable as a sort of exercise for this, would love for people to give it a go and let me know how it works out. > >Which would allow me to specify the maximum size of a string that an >attribute can have and will validate the size of the data I’m storing >in the attribute > >Or to specify that an attribute is a secondary key in some DB like: > > DBKey[User] http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Attribute-Dependent/ also seems interesting, not sure if either the above exactly fit the bill. > >Where User is a Moose class that provides an in memory version of a DB >record and the attribute would be a weak reference to such an object > >Is this currently possible? I looked at the docs for things like: > > >http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose/Meta/TypeConstraint/Paramet >erized.pm > >but that has: > >METHODS >This class is intentionally not documented because the API is confusing and needs some work. > >I would appreciate any pointers to examples or docs Thanks in advance >Mark Wood-Patrick > > > > > > > > > > >