Class::MakeMethods::Emulator::Struct - Emulate Class::Struct

  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 "95% compatible" drop-in replacement for the core Class::Struct module for purposes of comparison and code migration.

The class-struct.t 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.