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NAME
MooseX::Params::Validate - an extension of Params::Validate using Moose's types
VERSION
version 0.21
SYNOPSIS
package Foo;
use Moose;
use MooseX::Params::Validate;
sub foo {
my ( $self, %params ) = validated_hash(
\@_,
bar => { isa => 'Str', default => 'Moose' },
);
return "Hooray for $params{bar}!";
}
sub bar {
my $self = shift;
my ( $foo, $baz, $gorch ) = validated_list(
\@_,
foo => { isa => 'Foo' },
baz => { isa => 'ArrayRef | HashRef', optional => 1 },
gorch => { isa => 'ArrayRef[Int]', optional => 1 }
);
[ $foo, $baz, $gorch ];
}
DESCRIPTION
This module fills a gap in Moose by adding method parameter validation to Moose. This is just one of many
developing options, it should not be considered the "official" one by any means though.
You might also want to explore "MooseX::Method::Signatures" and "MooseX::Declare".
CAVEATS
It is not possible to introspect the method parameter specs; they are created as needed when the method
is called and cached for subsequent calls.
EXPORTS
validated_hash( \@_, %parameter_spec )
This behaves similarly to the standard Params::Validate "validate" function and returns the captured
values in a HASH. The one exception is where if it spots an instance in the @_, then it will handle
it appropriately (unlike Params::Validate which forces you to shift you $self first).
The values in @_ can either be a set of name-value pairs or a single hash reference.
The %parameter_spec accepts the following options:
isa The "isa" option can be either; class name, Moose type constraint name or an anon Moose type
constraint.
does
The "does" option can be either; role name or an anon Moose type constraint.
default
This is the default value to be used if the value is not supplied.
optional
As with Params::Validate, all options are considered required unless otherwise specified. This
option is passed directly to Params::Validate.
coerce
If this is true and the parameter has a type constraint which has coercions, then the coercion
will be called for this parameter. If the type does have coercions, then this parameter is
ignored.
depends
Another parameter that this one depends on. See the Params::Validate documentation for more
details.
This function is also available under its old name, "validate".
validated_list( \@_, %parameter_spec )
The %parameter_spec accepts the same options as above, but returns the parameters as positional
values instead of a HASH. This is best explained by example:
sub foo {
my ( $self, $foo, $bar ) = validated_list(
\@_,
foo => { isa => 'Foo' },
bar => { isa => 'Bar' },
);
$foo->baz($bar);
}
We capture the order in which you defined the parameters and then return them as a list in the same
order. If a param is marked optional and not included, then it will be set to "undef".
The values in @_ can either be a set of name-value pairs or a single hash reference.
Like "validated_hash", if it spots an object instance as the first parameter of @_, it will handle it
appropriately, returning it as the first argument.
This function is also available under its old name, "validatep".
pos_validated_list( \@_, $spec, $spec, ... )
This function validates a list of positional parameters. Each $spec should validate one of the
parameters in the list:
sub foo {
my $self = shift;
my ( $foo, $bar ) = pos_validated_list(
\@_,
{ isa => 'Foo' },
{ isa => 'Bar' },
);
...
}
Unlike the other functions, this function cannot find $self in the argument list. Make sure to shift
it off yourself before doing validation.
The values in @_ must be a list of values. You cannot pass the values as an array reference, because
this cannot be distinguished from passing one value which is itself an array reference.
If a parameter is marked as optional and is not present, it will simply not be returned.
If you want to pass in any of the cache control parameters described below, simply pass them after
the list of parameter validation specs:
sub foo {
my $self = shift;
my ( $foo, $bar ) = pos_validated_list(
\@_,
{ isa => 'Foo' },
{ isa => 'Bar' },
MX_PARAMS_VALIDATE_NO_CACHE => 1,
);
...
}
EXCEPTION FOR FAILED VALIDATION
If a type constraint check for a parameter fails, then the error is thrown as a
MooseX::Params::Validate::Exception::ValidationFailedForTypeConstraint object. When stringified, this
object will use the error message generated by the type constraint that failed.
Other errors are simply percolated up from Params::Validate as-is, and are not turned into exception
objects. This may change in the future (or more likely, Params::Validate may start throwing objects of
its own).
ALLOWING EXTRA PARAMETERS
By default, any parameters not mentioned in the parameter spec cause this module to throw an error.
However, you can have this module simply ignore them by setting "MX_PARAMS_VALIDATE_ALLOW_EXTRA" to a
true value when calling a validation subroutine.
When calling "validated_hash" or "pos_validated_list" the extra parameters are simply returned in the
hash or list as appropriate. However, when you call "validated_list" the extra parameters will not be
returned at all. You can get them by looking at the original value of @_.
EXPORTS
By default, this module exports the "validated_hash", "validated_list", and "pos_validated_list".
If you would prefer to import the now deprecated functions "validate" and "validatep" instead, you can
use the ":deprecated" tag to import them.
IMPORTANT NOTE ON CACHING
When a validation subroutine is called the first time, the parameter spec is prepared and cached to avoid
unnecessary regeneration. It uses the fully qualified name of the subroutine (package + subname) as the
cache key. In 99.999% of the use cases for this module, that will be the right thing to do.
However, I have (ab)used this module occasionally to handle dynamic sets of parameters. In this special
use case you can do a couple things to better control the caching behavior.
• Passing in the "MX_PARAMS_VALIDATE_NO_CACHE" flag in the parameter spec this will prevent the
parameter spec from being cached.
sub foo {
my ( $self, %params ) = validated_hash(
\@_,
foo => { isa => 'Foo' },
MX_PARAMS_VALIDATE_NO_CACHE => 1,
);
}
• Passing in "MX_PARAMS_VALIDATE_CACHE_KEY" with a value to be used as the cache key will bypass the
normal cache key generation.
sub foo {
my ( $self, %params ) = validated_hash(
\@_,
foo => { isa => 'Foo' },
MX_PARAMS_VALIDATE_CACHE_KEY => 'foo-42',
);
}
MAINTAINER
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
BUGS
Please submit bugs to the CPAN RT system at
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=moosex-params-validate or via email at
bug-moosex-params-validate@rt.cpan.org.
AUTHORS
• Stevan Little <stevan@cpan.org> • Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
CONTRIBUTORS
• Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> • Hans Staugaard <h.staugaard@tweakker.com> • Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 - 2015 by Stevan Little <stevan@cpan.org>. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.