At the bottom of
perltoot there is a nice way to use AUTOLOAD to generate the getters and setters for your objects.
(The following code is directly from the link):
package Person;
use Carp;
our $AUTOLOAD; # it's a package global
my %fields = (
name => undef,
age => undef,
peers => undef,
);
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $self = {
_permitted => \%fields,
%fields,
};
bless $self, $class;
return $self;
}
sub AUTOLOAD {
my $self = shift;
my $type = ref($self)
or croak "$self is not an object";
my $name = $AUTOLOAD;
$name =~ s/.*://; # strip fully-qualified portion
unless (exists $self->{_permitted}->{$name} ) {
croak "Can't access `$name' field in class $type";
}
if (@_) {
return $self->{$name} = shift;
} else {
return $self->{$name};
}
}
Which is basically going to "auto build" anything that's set in your permitted hash. I've used this before and it's saved a great deal of time (and tediousness).
I know this is a different approach than what you asked for (i.e. a specific module), but I hope it helps. It also combines your calls for get/set into a single method.
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