NAME

       MooseX::Types::Path::Tiny - Path::Tiny types and coercions for Moose

VERSION

       version 0.011

SYNOPSIS

         ### specification of type constraint with coercion

         package Foo;

         use Moose;
         use MooseX::Types::Path::Tiny qw/Path Paths AbsPath/;

         has filename => (
           is => 'ro',
           isa => Path,
           coerce => 1,
         );

         has directory => (
           is => 'ro',
           isa => AbsPath,
           coerce => 1,
         );

         has filenames => (
           is => 'ro',
           isa => Paths,
           coerce => 1,
         );

         ### usage in code

         Foo->new( filename => 'foo.txt' ); # coerced to Path::Tiny
         Foo->new( directory => '.' ); # coerced to path('.')->absolute
         Foo->new( filenames => [qw/bar.txt baz.txt/] ); # coerced to ArrayRef[Path::Tiny]

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides Path::Tiny types for Moose.  It handles two important types of
       coercion:

       •   coercing objects with overloaded stringification

       •   coercing to absolute paths

       It also can check to ensure that files or directories exist.

SUBTYPES

       This module uses MooseX::Types to define the following subtypes.

   Path
       "Path" ensures an attribute is a Path::Tiny object.  Strings and objects with overloaded
       stringification may be coerced.

   AbsPath
       "AbsPath" is a subtype of "Path" (above), but coerces to an absolute path.

   File, AbsFile
       These are just like "Path" and "AbsPath", except they check "-f" to ensure the file
       actually exists on the filesystem.

   Dir, AbsDir
       These are just like "Path" and "AbsPath", except they check "-d" to ensure the directory
       actually exists on the filesystem.

   Paths, AbsPaths
       These are arrayrefs of "Path" and "AbsPath", and include coercions from arrayrefs of
       strings.

CAVEATS

   Path vs File vs Dir
       "Path" just ensures you have a Path::Tiny object.

       "File" and "Dir" check the filesystem.  Don't use them unless that's really what you want.

   Usage with File::Temp
       Be careful if you pass in a File::Temp object. Because the argument is stringified during
       coercion into a Path::Tiny object, no reference to the original File::Temp argument is
       held.  Be sure to hold an external reference to it to avoid immediate cleanup of the
       temporary file or directory at the end of the enclosing scope.

       A better approach is to use Path::Tiny's own "tempfile" or "tempdir" constructors, which
       hold the reference for you.

           Foo->new( filename => Path::Tiny->tempfile );

SEE ALSO

       •   Path::Tiny

       •   Moose::Manual::Types

       •   Types::Path::Tiny

AUTHOR

       David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by David Golden.

       This is free software, licensed under:

         The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004

CONTRIBUTORS

       •   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

       •   Toby Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>

       •   Demian Riccardi <dde@ornl.gov>