Greetings!

This is somewhat a followup on the post I did here: 591709

Now the idea is basicly the following:
I have this structure:

Object - class
  toString() - method

    File - class, inherits Object
      open(:$file) - metod ( $file paramerer optional as it could have
+ been send using File's constructor)
      close() - method

        Stat - Inherits File
          getSize() - method
          getModTime() - method
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Now, I wanna be able of doing:

use Object::File;
my $file = File->new("bah.mp3");
my $size = $file->getSize();
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Now, as you can see here I can do getSize() since the Stat object is supposed to be loaded in there aswell! With inheritance is quite easy. But how to solve this? Its supposed to go recursive down from where you create something. In this case from Object::File as everything below there is supposed to be the File objects functionality! (Object::File::*::*...)
The thing is that I shouldn't have to know that there is a Stat module really. Since as you can see in the older thread, there is a method to get all methods an object has. So, the idea is that one can just do:

use Object::File;
use Data::Dumper;
my $file = File->new("bah.mp3");
print Dumper($file->find_methods());
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and voilá. You know see what you can do with the file!!! (Should I patent this? ;) )
I have done this so far in the Object (as I assume this is probably the best place to do this since this is ALWAYS run as its the top object).

package Object;

use strict;
use warnings;

use lib ".";

sub new {

    my ($class) = @_;
    my $self = {
        _objectname => $class,
    };

    my @sub_modules = glob("./Object/" . $class . "/*.pm");
    # Load sub modules for the class
    foreach (@sub_modules) {
        #print $_ . "\n";
        my ($pluginName) = $_ =~ /(\w+).pm/;
        #print "Class: " . $class . "\n";
        require "./Object/$class/$pluginName.pm";
    }
    
    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}

sub toString {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->{'_objectname'};
}
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But this doesn't really add the functionality to the File as shown dumping out the data with the find_methods(); sub mentioned in the other thread. Well, atleast there is no reference to the methods within the object...

Ideas how to solve this?

Thanks,
Ace

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