I avoid to make HashRef attributes writable (and even making them readable can have surprising effects).

In your case, you seem to want to overwrite individual elements of limit by passing a hashref containing only the values you want to change. While the auto-generated attribute accessors of Moo* are very convenient for simple cases, I don't use them for complex attributes. I'd rather write a separate method like that:

sub new_limit {
    my $self = shift;
    my ($aggregation, $dimension, $val) = @_; # e.g. 'min', 'x', '-42'
    $self->limit->{$aggregation}{$dimension} = $val;
}

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That would, for example, allow to change the interna from aggregation-first to dimension-first without changing the external API.

Even if you want to allow many values to be changed in one go, I recommend not to use the auto-generated Moo* accessor, but to write a separate method which contains pretty much the same code which you used in your before modifier.

In reply to Re: Question regarding proper handling of a Hash/HashRef structure in Moose-variants by haj
in thread Question regarding proper handling of a Hash/HashRef structure in Moose-variants by atcroft

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