I am working on some code for Nagios automations and was curious if there is a way to generalize the following:

sub WriteLine {
    my $self = shift;
    my $it = $self->OStream->WriteLine($_[0]);
        $self->Trace(_CallerStr($it));
    return $it;
};
        
sub Select {
    my $self = shift;
    my $it = $self->OStream->Select($_[0]);
        $self->Trace(_CallerStr($it)); 
    return $it;
};

sub Add {
    my $self = shift;
    my $it = $self->OStream->Add($_[0]);
        $self->Trace(_CallerStr($it)); 
    return $it;
};
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To something along the line of:

sub <Call> {
    my $self = shift;
    my $it = $self->OStream-><Call>($_[0]);
        $self->Trace(_CallerStr($it));
    return $it;
};
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Such that, I can use $Wrapper->Remove($item) and the function '<Call>' is executed and <Call> is substituted with 'Remove'. I can only think of using callbacks and a dispatcher but it seems like I would still have to generate all of the callback subs which I kind of want to avoid. Don't get me wrong it's not like copy/pasting is the end of the world, but why copy paste redundancy if there exists a method where I can almost template it? I would also like the simplicity in $X->Y->Z($item) and not have to work a dispatch and sub-call, which I have done before by passing a dispatch function a 'function name' like:

 if(defined $dev_desc{$tcp_data->Dispatch((USF::Modbus::Modbus::CB_NUMBERS))})

But then I end up checking function name and data followed by execution, whereas I want something like (kind of a bad example but the point is there):

 if(defined $dev_desc{$tcp_data->Dispatch->Numbers($tcp_data->Value)})

Maybe an overload? But then I would still have to have overload functions where all I really want to do is have it intuitively fill in the blacks since all of the functions will be doing the same thing since it is essentially a proxy class with subroutine tracing built-in for logging/debugging traceability. If it's not possible then oh well I guess, I just feel like there should be a better solution to excessive redundancy (especially when I am already using a proxy). I also feel it isn't entirely a thing since it would be a nightmare for the interpreter.

Thanks

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