This are the slides of the talk I gave at FOSDEM 2011 about Moose at the Perl devroom. It's an updated version of the slides I've previous uploaded.

1. Moose A postmodern metaclass-based object system for Perl 5

2. Moose Sawyer X * blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x * search.cpan.org/~xsawyerx/ * search.metacpan.org/#/author/XSAWYERX * github.com/xsawyerx

4. Manual new() method

5. No real attributes bless {}, __PACKAGE__; sub new { my ( $class, @args ) = @_; my $self = { @args }; # params bless $self, $class; return $self; } sub name { my ( $self, $name ) = @_; $name and $self->{'name'} = $name; return $self->{'name'}; }

6. Why would you want to use Moose? Moose package Person; use strict; use warnings; use Carp qw( confess ); use DateTime; use DateTime::Format::Natural; sub new { my $class = shift; my %p = ref $_[0] ? %{ $_[0] } : @_; exists $p{name} or confess 'name is a required attribute'; $class->_validate_name( $p{name} ); exists $p{birth_date} or confess 'birth_date is a required attribute'; $p{birth_date} = $class->_coerce_birth_date( $p{birth_date} ); $class->_validate_birth_date( $p{birth_date} ); $p{shirt_size} = 'l' unless exists $p{shirt_size}: $class->_validate_shirt_size( $p{shirt_size} ); return bless p, $class; } sub _validate_name { shift; my $name = shift; local $Carp::CarpLevel = $Carp::CarpLevel + 1; defined $name or confess 'name must be a string'; } Plain old Perl 5 package User; use Email::Valid; use Moose; use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints; extends 'Person'; subtype 'Email' => as 'Str' => where { Email::Valid->address($_) } => message { "$_ is not a valid email address" }; has email_address => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Email', required => 1, );

7. Get it?

9. use warnings

10. An object!

11. new() method

12. A pon-.. err.. a moose! package User; use Moose; 1; You get:

14. You can set the getter or setter manually via reader / writer

15. I'll show more attribute options later on has name => ( is => 'rw', );

17. You can combine: ArrayRef[Str] , HashRef[ArrayRef[Int]]

18. They have inheritance: Int is a Num

19. Roll your own using subtype package User; use Moose; has name => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', ); 1;

20. Methods are the same as before sub method { my $self = shift; ... $self->more(); }

24. after

26. after

27. around

28. inner

29. augment

30. Back to attributes options... has set => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Set::Object', default => sub { Set::Object->new }, required => 1, lazy => 1, predicate => 'has_set', clearer => 'clear_set', builder => 'build_set', );

31. Attribute options default => 'kitteh', # string default => 3, # number default => sub { {} }, # HashRef default => sub { [] }, # ArrayRef default => sub { Object->new }, # an Object etc. etc. (if you need a more elaborate sub, use builder ) default

32. Attribute options required => 1, # required required => 0, # not required required

33. Attribute options lazy => 1, # make it lazy Class will not create the slot for this attribute unless it absolutely has to. That is defined by whether it is accessed at all. Wasn't accessed? You don't pay the penalty! :) lazy = good lazy

34. Attribute options builder => 'build_it', # subroutine name sub build_it { my $self = shift; # not a problem! return Some::Object->new( $self->more_opts, ); } # and, obviously... after build_it => sub { “they will come” }; (a builder sets the value of the attribute) builder

35. Attribute options clearer => 'clear_it', # subroutine name # you don't need to create the subroutine sub time_machine { my $self = shift; $self->clear_it; # 'it' never happened :) } (a clearer clears the value, as if it never existed) (does not go back to default) clearer

36. Attribute options predicate => 'has_it', # subroutine name # you don't need to create the subroutine sub try_to_do_it { my $self = shift; $self->has_it && $self->do_it(); } (a predicate checks an attribute value exists) (even false values) (which is good!) predicate

37. Attribute options lazy_build => 1, # <3 # the same as: lazy => 1, builder => '_build_it', # private clearer => 'clear_it', predicate => 'has_it', ( lazy_build is recommended) lazy_build

39. It's clean

40. It's stable

41. It's here to stay

43. More control

44. Roles / Traits <3

45. Extensions OMGZ!

46. MooseX::SimpleConfig

47. MooseX::Getopt

48. MooseX::Declare

49. MooseX::Types

50. ... sub { goto CPAN; }

51. Thank you!