Hello Monks ! I've got some module where I need to write a lot of getters to access properties. for example, there is a module that handle the access to a warehouse items and workers (user) : 

sub get_item_by_name
{
    my ($this, $item_name) = @_;
    foreach my $item ( @{$this->{item}} ) {
        if ($item->{name} eq $item_name){
            return $item;
        }
    }
    
    return undef;
}


sub get_user_by_id
{
    my ($this, $user_id) = @_;
    foreach my $user( @{$this->{user}} ) {
        if ($user->{id} == $user_id){
            return $user;
        }
    }
    return undef;
}

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The getters are very similar, is there some better way to have a more generic getter ? thanks

In reply to efficient getters in module (class) by odrevet

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