Class::MakeMethods::Emulator::Struct (3pm)

  use Class::MakeMethods::Emulator::Struct;

  struct (
      simple  => '$',
      ordered => '@',
      mapping => '%',
      obj_ref => 'FooObject'
  );

This module emulates the functionality of Class::Struct by munging the provided field-declaration arguments to match those expected by Class::MakeMethods.

It supports the same four types of accessors, the choice of array-based or hash-based objects, and the choice of installing methods in the current package or a specified target.

The below three declarations create equivalent methods for a simple hash-based class with a constructor and four accessors.

use Class::Struct; struct ( simple => '$', ordered => '@', mapping => '%', obj_ref => 'FooObject' );

use Class::MakeMethods::Emulator::Struct; struct ( simple => '$', ordered => '@', mapping => '%', obj_ref => 'FooObject' );

use Class::MakeMethods ( -MakerClass => 'Standard::Array', 'new' => 'new', 'scalar' => 'simple', 'array -auto_init 1' => 'ordered', 'hash -auto_init 1' => 'mapping', 'object -auto_init 1' => '-class FooObject obj_ref' );

This module aims to offer a \*(L"95% compatible\*(R" drop-in replacement for the core Class::Struct module for purposes of comparison and code migration.

The \*(C`class-struct.t\*(C' test for the core Class::Struct module is included with this package. The test is unchanged except for the a direct substitution of this emulator's name in the place of the core module.

However, there are numerous internal differences between the methods generated by the original Class::Struct and this emulator, and some existing code may not work correctly without modification.

See Class::MakeMethods for general information about this distribution.

See Class::MakeMethods::Emulator for more about this family of subclasses.

See Class::Struct for documentation of the original module.

See Class::MakeMethods::Standard::Hash and Class::MakeMethods::Standard::Array for documentation of the created methods.