Thanks guys! The thing I didn't understand was that reader and writer just
change the name of the moose default accessor methods.
Looks like trigger will do what I want, though I have to ask ... is there a
way to simply override the default moose accessor methods with your own?
-Andy
On Apr 19, 2015 9:53 PM, "Kent Fredric" <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 20 April 2015 at 07:00, Andrew Hicox <and...@hicox.com> wrote:
>
>> This seems like I’d just need to declare a writer sub for the attribute,
>> do my logic in there, then set the attribute value or throw an error, right?
>>
>> Why doesn't this work?
>>
>> package Bogus {
>> use Moose;
>> has ‘value’, is => “rw”, writer => “_value”, isa => “Num”;
>> sub _value {
>> my ($self, $value) = @_;
>> ## insert some logic here
>> $self->value($value);
>> return(1);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> use Bogus;
>> my $a = new Bogus(value => 1);
>>
>>
> The initial mistake I believe you made was thinking that the argument to
> writer was intended to be a "I'll create this sub, Moose can use it".
>
> Whereas that argument in this case is "Moose, create me a writer called
> _value".
>
> So the RHS of that token is intended for more external interfaces, eg:
>
> ---
>
> has value => ( is => 'rw', writer => "set_value" , reader => "get_value");
> ...
> $object->set_value( $arg );
> $object->get_value(); # returns $arg
>
> ---
>
>
> so:
>
> $writer_sub -> internal attribute store
> $reader_sub <- internal attribute store
>
> $writer_sub and $readersub can sometimes be the same sub, which is the
> default case with "is => rw".
>
> For comparion, see: "is => raw", where $object->value won't exist.
>
>
> --
> Kent
>
> *KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
>
>
