In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ovid) writes:
>--- "Martin A. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> i wonder how i can list all the methods availible from a given object?
>
>The simple answer: You can't. Welcome to Perl.
>
>The long answer: there are a variety of strategies you can use to try and figure
>this out, but
>all of them fall short. For example, here's a snippet that prints out defined
>subroutines (or
>methods) in a given package:
>
> {
> no strict 'refs';
> my $namespace = sprintf "%s::", $CLASS;
> foreach (keys %{$namespace}) {
> my $test_sub = sprintf "%s%s", $namespace, $_;
> print "$test_sub\n" unless defined &$test_sub;
> }
> }
>
>The problem here is that it will not print inherited or AUTOLOADed methods.
[snip]
So traverse the inheritance hierarchy and do the same thing with each class:
http://search.cpan.org/author/SBURKE/Class-ISA-0.32/ISA.pm
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Peter Scott
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