Re: Sharing BUILDARGS() functionality.

On Jan 19, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Elliot Shank wrote:

> I've got various classes that I'm initializing based upon hashes  
> that come from configuration files.  The keys that come from the  
> files don't necessarily match the names of the attributes.  Simple  
> enough-- that's the type of thing that BUILDARGS() was created for.   
> But the question is how to share the BUILDARGS() implementation?  I  
> could get away with simple inheritance right now, but that doesn't  
> appeal.  Also, given that role composition order isn't guaranteed,  
> I'm not sure that a role is the long term solution either.  I'm  
> seriously thinking of simply creating an isolated function that does  
> the transformation and calling it in the place that I want in  
> BUILDARGS() on each class.

Have you looked at MooseX::MultiInitArg?

- Stevan