Re: Moose hook

When MyRole is composed into a class.

I want it to fiddle with the attributes of the class while it is being
built.

On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 11:41 -0400, Chris Prather wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Peter Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is the example I am working with:
> >
> > package MyRole ;
> > with Moose::Role ;
> >
> > # Operate on the 'has' items
> > sub runMe {
> > }
> >
> > package X ;around BUILD => \&runMe;
> > use Moose ;
> > has 'item' => ( is => 'rw' , isa => 'Str') ;
> >
> >
> > package Y ;
> > use Moose ;
> > extends 'X' ;
> > with 'MyRole';
> >
> >
> > I would like to be able to define package MyRole such that when it is
> > invoked, runMe() gets run automatically without having to run
> > it explicitly in package Y.
> 
> How do you mean "invoked"? Do you mean when an object is created from
> a class that composes MyRole?
> 
> package MyRole;
> use Moose::Role;
> 
> sub BUILD { }
> around BUILD => \&runMe;
> 
> 
> If you mean when MyRole is composed into a class, that's different.
> 
> -Chris