I am reading a file and want to automatically generate accessors based on the fields in this file. I start out generating a small subset of accessors that I need to read status and error stuff, but then I want to add more accessors as I read the file. So far, I have not been able to accomplish this. No error messages are generated, but when I try to call an accessor on a dynamically generated accessor, I get the following error:Can't locate object method "mymethod" via package "mypackage" Here is my code where I pass a key, value pair from the file into a sub called kv that is supposed to generate methods: 
    package KLARF;
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use base qw(Class::Accessor);
    
    # set up initial accessors
    KLARF->mk_accessors( qw( state debug current_list ) );

    # overload state accessor to print current state in debug mode
    sub state {
        my $self = shift;
        if ( @_ ){
            $self->{state} = shift;
            print "$self->{state}\n" if $self->{debug};
            return $self->{state};
        }
        else {
            print "$self->{state}\n" if $self->{debug}; 
            return $self->{state};
        } 
    }
    
    sub kv {
        my $self  = shift;
        my $key   = shift;
        my $value = shift;
        
           $key = lc $key;
           
        if ( $self->{state} eq 'RECORD' ){ 
               $value =~ s/\"//g;
               chomp $value;
        }
        if ( $self->{state} eq 'FIELD' ){ 
            $value =~ s/\"//g;
            $value =~ s/\s//g;
            my @values = split /,/, $value;
            $value = \@values;
        }
                    
        if ( $self->{debug} ){ print uc "Key is $key, Value is $value\
+n"};
        $self->{$key} = $value;
        KLARF->make_accessor( $key );  #  this doesn't seem to work???
        
    }

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I have done this already using Moose, but I can't use Moose for this application. Maybe this is not even possible using Class::Accessor, I couldn't find anything saying it was or wasn't. Thanks for any help.

In reply to Dynamic Method Generation Using Class::Accessor by ~~David~~

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