NAME

       Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Table_ClassMetaclass - Adding a "table" attribute to the metaclass

VERSION

       version 2.1005

SYNOPSIS

         package MyApp::Meta::Class;
         use Moose;
         extends 'Moose::Meta::Class';

         has table => (
             is  => 'rw',
             isa => 'Str',
         );

DESCRIPTION

       WARNING: Subclassing metaclasses (as opposed to providing metaclass traits) is strongly discouraged. This
       recipe is provided solely for reference when encountering older code that does this.

       In this recipe, we'll create a new metaclass which has a "table" attribute. This metaclass is for classes
       associated with a DBMS table, as one might do for an ORM.

       In this example, the table name is just a string, but in a real ORM the table might be an object
       describing the table.

THE METACLASS

       This really is as simple as the recipe "SYNOPSIS" shows. The trick is getting your classes to use this
       metaclass, and providing some sort of sugar for declaring the table. This is covered in
       Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2, which shows how to make a module like "Moose.pm" itself, with sugar
       like "has_table()".

   Using this Metaclass in Practice
       Accessing this new "table" attribute is quite simple. Given a class named "MyApp::User", we could simply
       write the following:

         my $table = MyApp::User->meta->table;

       As long as "MyApp::User" has arranged to use "MyApp::Meta::Class" as its metaclass, this method call just
       works. If we want to be more careful, we can check the metaclass's class:

         $table = MyApp::User->meta->table
             if MyApp::User->meta->isa('MyApp::Meta::Class');

CONCLUSION

       Creating custom metaclass is trivial. Using it is a little harder, and is covered in other recipes. We
       will also talk about applying traits to a class metaclass, which is a more flexible and cooperative
       implementation.

SEE ALSO

       Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe5 - The "table" attribute implemented as a metaclass trait

       Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Recipe2 - Acting like Moose.pm and providing sugar Moose-style

AUTHOR

       Moose is maintained by the Moose Cabal, along with the help of many contributors. See "CABAL" in Moose
       and "CONTRIBUTORS" in Moose for details.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013 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.