Class::Method::Auto is a Perl module that allows you to call inherited class methods directly without prefixing them with the class name.
There are two methods of telling Class::Method::Auto which methods to call automatically: By explicitly giving it a list of method names or by specifying a filter for the methods.
In the first case, Class::Method::Auto creates a subroutine in the importing package for every name in the list that unshift's the calling package name onto @_ and jumps to the method in the first package where is it defined.
package Blurp;
use Class::Method::Auto qw[bar baz]; # creates Blurp::bar and Blurp::baz
In the second case, you can specify a regular expression for the method names to be tested against or the string -attributes, which causes Class::Method::Auto to check whether the called method has the < method > attribute to make sure only real methods are called.
When specifying a filter, the method AUTOLOAD is installed in the importing package for dispatching.
package Foo;
sub my_method :method {
...
}
sub no_method {
...
}
sub _private {
...
}
package Moose;
use base 'Foo';
use Class::Method::Auto '-attributes', qr/^[^_]/;
# now my_method(...) can be called, but not no_method or _private
SYNOPSIS
# in Foo.pm
package Foo;
sub bar {
...
}
# in Baz.pm
package Baz;
use Class::Method::Auto 'bar';
use base 'Foo';
bar("Moose!"); # same as __PACKAGE__->bar("Moose!")
Requirements:
· Perl
