Hi all,
I'm looking for something like aliased.pm, but with a more specific
functionality. Where aliased.pm only renames (and loads) one class, I
want something which aliases an entire class hierarchy and loads
modules from it on demand.
use aliased::factory YAPI => 'Yahoo::Marketing';
# this does: require Yahoo::Marketing::KeywordResearchService
# and calls Yahoo::Marketing::KeywordResearchService->new(...)
my $ybis = YAPI::KeywordResearchService(...);
my $res = $ybis->getRelatedKeywords(
relatedKeywordRequest => YAPI::RelatedKeywordRequestType(...)
);
Both Yahoo::Marketing and Google::Adwords have a very long list of
objects under their namespace and frequently need various objects to be
passed into their methods (this is largely due to their SOAP APIs and
that the Perl code exactly mirrors that.) It seems like this might
have useful applications elsewhere.
As for implementation: import() would install a YAPI::AUTOLOAD(), which
does the require($thing) and $thing->new(...) bit. Of course, this
means that the hierarchy is only one level below the aliased namespace.
This seems like enough (though I have considered making YAPI::Foo()
install a YAPI::Foo::AUTOLOAD().)
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Eric
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