DESCRIPTION

This is the metaclass for parameterizable roles, roles that have their parameters currently unbound. These are the roles that you use ``with'' in Moose, but instead of composing the parameterizable role, we construct a new parameterized role (MooseX::Role::Parameterized::Meta::Role::Parameterized).

ATTRIBUTES

parameters_class

The name of the class that will be used to construct the parameters object.

parameters_metaclass

A metaclass representing this roles's parameters. It will be an anonymous subclass of ``parameters_class''. Each call to ``parameter'' in MooseX::Role::Parameters adds an attribute to this metaclass.

When this role is consumed, the parameters object will be instantiated using this metaclass.

role_generator

A code reference that is used to generate a role based on the parameters provided by the consumer. The user usually specifies it using the ``role'' in MooseX::Role::Parameterized keyword.

METHODS

add_parameter $name, %options

Basically delegates to ``add_attribute'' in Moose::Meta::Class on the ``parameters_metaclass'' but with error messages that refer to a ``parameter'' not an ``attribute''.

construct_parameters %arguments

Creates a new MooseX::Role::Parameterized::Parameters object using metaclass ``parameters_metaclass''.

The arguments are those specified by the consumer as parameter values.

generate_role %arguments

Returns a new instance of MooseX::Role::Parameterized::Meta::Role::Parameterized based on the arguments. The arguments are a hash reference of "parameters" and, if available, a "consumer" metaobject.

apply

Overrides ``apply'' in Moose::Meta::Role to automatically generate the parameterized role.