{ package Page; use strict; use warnings; use Moose; has 'url' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1, ); no Moose; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable(); } { package Container; use strict; use warnings; use Moose; my $pages_constraint = Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::create_parameterized_type_constraint('ArrayRef[Page]'); my $aoh_constraint = Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::create_parameterized_type_constraint('ArrayRef[HashRef]'); around BUILDARGS => sub { my $orig = shift; my $class = shift; my %args = ( @_ == 1 ? %{ $_[0] } : @_ ); if (exists($args{pages})) { my $pages = $args{pages}; if (!$pages_constraint->check($pages)) { # Need to coerce? if ($aoh_constraint->check($pages)) { # Can we coerce? $args{pages} = [ map Page->new($_), @$pages ]; } } } return $class->$orig(%args); }; has 'pages' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'ArrayRef[Page]', default => sub { [ ] }, ); no Moose; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable(); } Container->new( pages => [ { url => "a" }, { url => "b" } ] );