nevdka:

To expand a little on rjts post: If all your car objects basically act the same but have different attributes then you don't really need to subclass. You just need a simple way to apply default attributes when you build your cars. You could have a set of standard attributes based on the car type, something like:

# You could load the hash from a database table, or just call the data
+base for
# each car.  I'm just hardcoding for this example:
my %car_models = (
   Corolla => { drive=>'fwd', body=>'hatch', engine_capacity=>1798 },
   Tercel  => { drive=>'fwd', ... }
);

while (<DATA>) {
   chomp;
   my $car = Car->new();
   my $model_attributes = $car_models{$_};
   $car->drive_type($model_attributes->{drive});
   $car->body_type($model_attributes->{body});
   $car->engine_cap($model_attributes->{engine_capacity});

   ...
}

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This way, you just look up the attributes based on the model and add them when you build your car. You could even have a 'load_defaults_for_model' function in your car class to automatically do the lookup when you create your car:

sub load_defaults_for_model {
   my $self=shift;
   my $model_attributes = $car_models{$self->{Model}};
   $self->drive_type($model_attributes->{drive});
   $self->body_type($model_attributes->{body});
   $self->engine_cap($model_attributes->{engine_capacity});
}

sub new {
   my ($class, $model) = @_;
   my $new_obj = {
       .... build your object ....
   };
   bless $new_obj, $class;
   if (defined $model) {
      $new_obj->{model} = $model;
      $new_obj->load_defaults_for_model();
   }
   return $new_obj;
}

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...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Setting common object attributes by roboticus
in thread Setting common object attributes by nevdka

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