Sub::Exporter::ForMethods(3)

NAME
Sub::Exporter::ForMethods - helper routines for using Sub::Exporter to build methods

VERSION
version 0.100055

SYNOPSIS
In an exporting library:

  package Method::Builder;

  use Sub::Exporter::ForMethods qw(method_installer);

  use Sub::Exporter -setup => {
    exports   => [ method => \'_method_generator' ],
    installer => method_installer,
  };

  sub _method_generator {
    my ($self, $name, $arg, $col) = @_;
    return sub { ... };
  };

In an importing library:

  package Vehicle::Autobot;
  use Method::Builder method => { -as => 'transform' };

DESCRIPTION
The synopsis section, above, looks almost indistinguishable from any other use of Sub::Exporter, apart from the use of "method_installer". It is nearly indistinguishable in behavior, too. The only change is that subroutines exported from Method::Builder into named slots in Vehicle::Autobot will be wrapped in a subroutine called "Vehicle::Autobot::transform". This will insert a named frame into stack traces to aid in debugging.

More importantly (for the author, anyway), they will not be removed by namespace::autoclean. This makes the following code work:

  package MyLibrary;

  use Math::Trig qw(tan);         # uses Exporter.pm
  use String::Truncate qw(trunc); # uses Sub::Exporter's defaults

  use Sub::Exporter::ForMethods qw(method_installer);
  use Mixin::Linewise { installer => method_installer }, qw(read_file);

  use namespace::autoclean;

  ...

  1;

After MyLibrary is compiled, "namespace::autoclean" will remove "tan" and "trunc" as foreign contaminants, but will leave "read_file" in place. It will also remove "method_installer", an added win.

PERL VERSION
This library should run on perls released even a long time ago. It should work on any version of perl released in the last five years.

Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum required version will not be increased. The version may be increased for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

EXPORTS
Sub::Exporter::ForMethods offers only one routine for export, and it may also be called by its full package name:

  method_installer
  my $installer = method_installer(\%arg);

This routine returns an installer suitable for use as the "installer" argument to Sub::Exporter. It updates the "\@to_export" argument to wrap all code that will be installed by name in a named subroutine, then passes control to the default Sub::Exporter installer.

The only argument to "method_installer" is an optional hashref which may contain a single entry for "rebless". If the value for "rebless" is true, when a blessed subroutine is wrapped, the wrapper will be blessed into the same package.

AUTHOR
Ricardo Signes <cpan@semiotic.systems>

CONTRIBUTOR
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2022 by Ricardo Signes.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.