I'd probably just store a weak reference to the big object directly in the little one, and use it in alter_another_little_object to get the other object:
#! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; { package BigObjs; use Moose; has 'little_objs' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'HashRef', default => sub + { {} }); sub get_little_obj { my ($s, $id) = @_; return $s->little_objs->{$id}; } sub add_little_obj { my ($s, $little_obj) = @_; $little_obj->big_obj($s); $s->little_objs->{$little_obj->id} = $little_obj; } } { package LittleObjs; use Moose; has id => (is => 'rw'); has data => (is => 'rw'); has big_obj => (is => 'rw', weak_ref => 1); sub alter_another_little_object { my ($s, $id) = @_; my $other_little_object = $s->big_obj->get_little_obj($id); $other_little_object->do_stuff; } sub do_stuff { my $s = shift; print "I'm doing stuff to: " . $s->id . "\n"; } } my $big = BigObjs->new(); my $little1 = LittleObjs->new(id => 'little1', data => 'foo'); my $little2 = LittleObjs->new(id => 'little2', data => 'bar'); $big->add_little_obj($little1); $big->add_little_obj($little2); $little1->alter_another_little_object('little2'); warn "Done\n";
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In reply to Re^3: Is there an advantage to storing references to objects in an attribute instead of the object itself? by choroba
in thread Is there an advantage to storing references to objects in an attribute instead of the object itself? by nysus

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