Class::Inner 0.1

Class::Inner is a perlish implementation of Java like inner classes.

SYNOPSIS

use Class::Inner;

my $object = Class::Inner->new(
parent => ParentClass,
methods => { method => sub { ... } }, },
constructor => new,
args => [@constructor_args],
);

Yet another implementation of an anonymous class with per object overrideable methods, but with the added attraction of sort of working dispatch to the parent classs method.

METHODS

new HASH

Takes a hash like argument list with the following keys.

parent

The name of the parent class. Note that you can only get single inheritance with this or SUPER wont work.

methods

A hash, keys are method names, values are CODEREFs.

constructor

The name of the constructor method. Defaults to new.

args

An anonymous array of arguments to pass to the constructor. Defaults to an empty list.

Returns an object in an anonymous class which inherits from the parent class. This anonymous class has a couple of extra methods:

SUPER

If you were to pass something like

$obj = Class::Inner->new(
parent => Parent,
methods => { method => sub { ...; $self->SUPER::method(@_) } },
);

then $self-gtSUPER::method almost certainly wouldnt do what you expect, so we provide the SUPER method which dispatches to the parent implementation of the current method. There seems to be no good way of getting the full SUPER:: functionality, but Im working on it.

DESTROY

Because Class::Inner works by creating a whole new class name for your object, it could potentially leak memory if you create a lot of them. So we add a DESTROY method that removes the class from the symbol table once its finished with.

If you need to override a parents DESTROY method, adding a call to Class::Inner::clean_symbol_table(ref $self) to it. Do it at the end of the method or your other method calls wont work.

clean_symbol_table

The helper subroutine that DESTROY uses to remove the class from the symbol table.

new_classname

Returns a name for the next anonymous class.