NAME

       MooseX::OneArgNew - teach ->new to accept single, non-hashref arguments

VERSION

       version 0.003

SYNOPSIS

       In our class definition:

         package Delivery;
         use Moose;
         with('MooseX::OneArgNew' => {
           type     => 'Existing::Message::Type',
           init_arg => 'message',
         });

         has message => (isa => 'Existing::Message::Type', required => 1);

         has to => (
           is   => 'ro',
           isa  => 'Str',
           lazy => 1,
           default => sub {
             my ($self) = @_;
             $self->message->get('To');
           },
         );

       When making a message:

         # The traditional way:

         my $delivery = Delivery->new({ message => $message });
         # or
         my $delivery = Delivery->new({ message => $message, to => $to });

         # With one-arg new:

         my $delivery = Delivery->new($message);

DESCRIPTION

       MooseX::OneArgNew lets your constructor take a single argument, which will be translated into the value
       for a one-entry hashref.  It is a parameterized role with two parameters:

       type
           The Moose type that the single argument must be for the one-arg form to work.  This should be an
           existing type, and may be either a string type or a MooseX::Type.

       init_arg
           This is the string that will be used as the key for the hashref constructed from the one-arg call to
           new.

       coerce
           If true, a single argument to new will be coerced into the expected type if possible.  Keep in mind
           that if there are no coercions for the type, this will be an error, and that if a coercion from
           HashRef exists, you might be getting yourself into a weird situation.

   WARNINGS
       You can apply MooseX::OneArgNew more than once, but if more than one application's type matches a single
       argument to "new", the behavior is undefined and likely to cause bugs.

       It would be a very bad idea to supply a type that could accept a normal hashref of arguments to "new".

AUTHOR

       Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Ricardo Signes.

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