Moose: How to check if a class implements a role?

Monk::Thomas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello everyone

Is it possible to do something like?

if ( $class->has_role('xyz') ) {
  [...]
}
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http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose/Manual/Roles.pod goes into detail on how to apply roles, but not if it's possible to query them

Verbose explanation:

I have a couple of roles that the objects can consume. Let's say they provide some functionality for interfacing with the filesystem and the roles are 'Readable' and 'Writeable'. I think it would be very nifty to simply ask an object if it implements/consumes the role 'Writeable' and if it doesn't then I can issue some kind of notification.

The naive implementation would be to check for $obj->write() or similiar, but there may be more then one methods to 'change something' and I don't really want to check every one of them for presence. (Sooner or later one of these methods ~will~ be forgotten.)

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Re: Moose: How to check if a class implements a role? (does) by Anonymous Monk on Jul 12, 2013 at 14:59 UTC
`$obj->does('ROLE') CLASS->does('ROLE')` [download] see Role::Tiny	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Moose: How to check if a class implements a role? (does) by daxim (Curate) on Jul 12, 2013 at 15:44 UTC
documented in perlobj	[reply]
Re^2: Moose: How to check if a class implements a role? (does) by Monk::Thomas (Friar) on Jul 19, 2013 at 07:52 UTC
Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for. It even works when applying a role during runtime. (This comes quite handy for implementing a dummy backend class which can fake different feature-set. Think something along the line of DBI, where you want to test the DBI class, but not the actual backend like DBD::mysql) (Moose) sub BUILD { my $self = shift; my $mode = $self->get_mode(); # normally roles are not used/required, but since we manipulate this # class' roles at runtime we need to require the role if ($mode =~ /R/xmsi) { require TLA::Datastore::_readable; TLA::Datastore::_readable->meta->apply($self); } if ($mode =~ /W/xmsi) { require TLA::Datastore::_writeable; TLA::Datastore::_writeable->meta->apply($self); } if ($mode =~ /X/xmsi) { require TLA::Datastore::_execute; TLA::Datastore::_execute->meta->apply($self); } return; } [download] And later I can test for a specific role: `my $ds = TLA::Datastore::Dummy->new('mode' => 'R'); if ( $ds->DOES('TLA::Datastore::_readable') ) { # do stuff };` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Moose: How to check if a class implements a role? by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 13, 2013 at 07:27 UTC
There's `$obj->does("MyRole")` supported by Role::Tiny, Moo::Role, Mouse::Role, Moose::Role and Stevan Little's current prototype for a core Perl 5 mop, but I'd personally recommend using `$obj->DOES("MyRole")` (which is also supported by all of the above frameworks) because that's defined in UNIVERSAL, the base class for all Perl classes, and thus you're pretty much guaranteed to not get a Can't locate object method "does" via package "Foobar" error message (unless the class has gone seriously out of its way to prevent you calling `DOES`). `package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name`	[reply] [d/l] [select]