Greeting monks,

I'm using Moose for the first time, and would appreciate some expert advice on some issues I'm running into.

I have a set of attributes with custom accessors, methods, etc.. I would like to group them in a single hash structure so that I can set/get/clear them globally (and keep my object nice and neat). I think I could do this by creating a new class with these various attributes in it, but I don't want to do that for a number of reasons. I'm stuck on how to move these attributes into a single place.

To illustrate, the object code currently looks like this:

package My::New::Object;

has max_chunk => (is=>'rw', isa=>'Int', init_arg => 'size', clearer=>'
+clear_max_chunk');
has liberal_mode => (is=>'rw', isa=>'Bool', default=>sub{1});
has fh => (is=>'rw', isa=>'My::New::Object::ProtoFileHandle', clearer=
+>'clear_fh', predicate=>'has_fh', writer=>'_set_fh', coerce => 1, ini
+t_arg => 'file', trigger => \&reset_temporary_variables );

[... more attributes, code, etc. ]
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And dumping it gives this:

object: $VAR1 = bless( {
  'liberal_mode' => 1,
  'fh' => bless( \*Symbol::GEN0, 'FileHandle' ),
[... other data ...]
}, 'My::New::Object' );
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I would like it to look like this:

object: $VAR1 = bless( {
  'options' => {
    'liberal_mode' => 1,
    'fh' => bless( \*Symbol::GEN0, 'FileHandle' ),
  },
[... other data ...]
}, 'My::New::Object' );
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so that I could have methods like 'set_all_options' and 'clear_options' to deal with everything in the options hash, as well as preserving the various methods I already have associated with the existing attributes.

Any wisdom would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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