NAME

       Dancer::Object - Objects base class for Dancer

VERSION

       version 1.3202

SYNOPSIS

           package My::Dancer::Extension;

           use strict;
           use warnings;
           use base 'Dancer::Object';

           __PACKAGE__->attributes( qw/name value this that/ );

           sub init {
               # our initialization code, if we need one
           }

DESCRIPTION

       While we love Moose, we can't use it for Dancer and still keep Dancer minimal, so we wrote Dancer::Object
       instead.

       It provides you with attributes and an initializer.

METHODS

   new
       Creates a new object of whatever is based off Dancer::Object. This is a generic "new" method so you don't
       have to write one yourself when extending "Dancer::Object".

       It accepts arguments in a hash and runs an additional "init" method (described below) which you should
       implement.

   init
       Exists but does nothing. This is so you won't have to write an initializer if you don't want to.

   clone
       Creates and returns a clone of the object using Clone, which is loaded dynamically. If we cannot load
       Clone, we throw an exception.

   get_attributes
       Get the attributes of the specific class.

   attributes
       Generates attributes for whatever object is extending Dancer::Object and saves them in an internal
       hashref so they can be later fetched using "get_attributes".

       For each defined attribute you can access its value using:

         $self->your_attribute_name;

       To set a value use

         $self->your_attribute_name($value);

       Nevertheless, you can continue to use these attributes as hash keys, as usual with blessed hash
       references:

         $self->{your_attribute_name} = $value;

       Although this is possible we defend you should use the method approach, as it maintains compatibility in
       case "Dancer::Object" structure changes in the future.

   attributes_defaults
         $self->attributes_defaults(length => 2);

       given a hash (not a hashref), makes sure an object has the given attributes default values. Usually
       called from within an "init" function.

AUTHOR

       Dancer Core Developers

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Alexis Sukrieh.

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