NAME

       Class::MOP::Method - Method Meta Object

VERSION

       version 2.2009

DESCRIPTION

       The Method Protocol is very small, since methods in Perl 5 are just subroutines in a
       specific package. We provide a very basic introspection interface.

METHODS

       Class::MOP::Method->wrap($code, %options)
           This is the constructor. It accepts a method body in the form of either a code
           reference or a Class::MOP::Method instance, followed by a hash of options.

           The options are:

           •       name

                   The method name (without a package name). This is required if $code is a
                   coderef.

           •       package_name

                   The package name for the method. This is required if $code is a coderef.

           •       associated_metaclass

                   An optional Class::MOP::Class object. This is the metaclass for the method's
                   class.

       $metamethod->clone(%params)
           This makes a shallow clone of the method object. In particular, subroutine reference
           itself is shared between all clones of a given method.

           When a method is cloned, the original method object will be available by calling
           "original_method" on the clone.

       $metamethod->body
           This returns a reference to the method's subroutine.

       $metamethod->name
           This returns the method's name.

       $metamethod->package_name
           This returns the method's package name.

       $metamethod->fully_qualified_name
           This returns the method's fully qualified name (package name and method name).

       $metamethod->associated_metaclass
           This returns the Class::MOP::Class object for the method, if one exists.

       $metamethod->original_method
           If this method object was created as a clone of some other method object, this returns
           the object that was cloned.

       $metamethod->original_name
           This returns the method's original name, wherever it was first defined.

           If this method is a clone of a clone (of a clone, etc.), this method returns the name
           from the first method in the chain of clones.

       $metamethod->original_package_name
           This returns the method's original package name, wherever it was first defined.

           If this method is a clone of a clone (of a clone, etc.), this method returns the
           package name from the first method in the chain of clones.

       $metamethod->original_fully_qualified_name
           This returns the method's original fully qualified name, wherever it was first
           defined.

           If this method is a clone of a clone (of a clone, etc.), this method returns the fully
           qualified name from the first method in the chain of clones.

       $metamethod->is_stub
           Returns true if the method is just a stub:

             sub foo;

       $metamethod->attach_to_class($metaclass)
           Given a Class::MOP::Class object, this method sets the associated metaclass for the
           method. This will overwrite any existing associated metaclass.

       $metamethod->detach_from_class
           Removes any associated metaclass object for the method.

       $metamethod->execute(...)
           This executes the method. Any arguments provided will be passed on to the method
           itself.

       Class::MOP::Method->meta
           This will return a Class::MOP::Class instance for this class.

           It should also be noted that Class::MOP will actually bootstrap this module by
           installing a number of attribute meta-objects into its metaclass.

AUTHORS

       •   Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>

       •   Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

       •   Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>

       •   Shawn M Moore <code@sartak.org>

       •   יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

       •   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

       •   Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

       •   Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@weftsoar.net>

       •   Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

       •   Matt S Trout <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.