SYNOPSIS

package Foo::Bar;

use Type::Registry;

my $reg = "Type::Registry"->for_me; # a registry for Foo::Bar

# Register all types from Types::Standard
$reg->add_types(-Standard);

# Register just one type from Types::XSD
$reg->add_types(-XSD => ["NonNegativeInteger"]);

# Register all types from MyApp::Types
$reg->add_types("MyApp::Types");

# Create a type alias
$reg->alias_type("NonNegativeInteger" => "Count");

# Look up a type constraint
my $type = $reg->lookup("ArrayRef[Count]");

$type->check([1, 2, 3.14159]); # croaks

Alternatively:

   package Foo::Bar;
   
   use Type::Registry qw( t );
   
   # Register all types from Types::Standard
   t->add_types(-Standard);
   
   # Register just one type from Types::XSD
   t->add_types(-XSD => ["NonNegativeInteger"]);
   
   # Register all types from MyApp::Types
   t->add_types("MyApp::Types");
   
   # Create a type alias
   t->alias_type("NonNegativeInteger" => "Count");
   
   # Look up a type constraint
   my $type = t("ArrayRef[Count]");
   
   $type->check([1, 2, 3.14159]);  # croaks

STATUS

This module is covered by the Type-Tiny stability policy.

DESCRIPTION

A type registry is basically just a hashref mapping type names to type constraint objects.

Constructors

"new"

Create a new glorified hashref.

"for_class($class)"

Create or return the existing glorified hashref associated with the given class.

Note that any type constraint you have imported from Type::Library-based type libraries will be automatically available in your class' registry.

"for_me"

Create or return the existing glorified hashref associated with the caller.

Methods

"add_types(@libraries)"

The libraries list is treated as an ``optlist'' (a la Data::OptList).

Strings are the names of type libraries; if the first character is a hyphen, it is expanded to the ``Types::'' prefix. If followed by an arrayref, this is the list of types to import from that library. Otherwise, imports all types from the library.

   use Type::Registry qw(t);
   
   t->add_types(-Standard);  # OR: t->add_types("Types::Standard");
   
   t->add_types(
      -TypeTiny => ['HashLike'],
      -Standard => ['HashRef' => { -as => 'RealHash' }],
   );

MooseX::Types (and experimentally, MouseX::Types) libraries can also be added this way, but cannot be followed by an arrayref of types to import.

"add_type($type, $name)"

The long-awaited singular form of "add_types". Given a type constraint object, adds it to the registry with a given name. The name may be omitted, in which case "$type->name" is called, and Type::Registry will throw an error if $type is anonymous. If a name is explicitly given, Type::Registry cares not one wit whether the type constraint is anonymous.

This method can even add MooseX::Types and MouseX::Types type constraints; indeed anything that can be handled by Types::TypeTiny's "to_TypeTiny" function. (Bear in mind that to_TypeTiny always results in an anonymous type constraint, so $name will be required.)

"alias_type($oldname, $newname)"

Create an alias for an existing type.

"simple_lookup($name)"

Look up a type in the registry by name.

Returns undef if not found.

"foreign_lookup($name)"

Like "simple_lookup", but if the type name contains ``::'', will attempt to load it from a type library. (And will attempt to load that module.)

"lookup($name)"

Look up by name, with a DSL.

   t->lookup("Int|ArrayRef[Int]")

The DSL can be summed up as:

   X               type from this registry
   My::Lib::X      type from a type library
   ~X              complementary type
   X | Y           union
   X & Y           intersection
   X[...]          parameterized type
   slurpy X        slurpy type
   Foo::Bar::      class type

Croaks if not found.

"make_union(@constraints)", "make_intersection(@constraints)", "make_class_type($class)", "make_role_type($role)"

Convenience methods for creating certain common type constraints.

"AUTOLOAD"

Overloaded to call "lookup".

   $registry->Str;  # like $registry->lookup("Str")

Functions

"t"

This class can export a function "t" which acts like ""Type::Registry"->for_class($importing_class)".

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <[email protected]>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014 by Toby Inkster.

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.