Re: Overriding of a method

There's a couple of options. If you're creating instances of the objects, rather than just calling methods in the namespace, you can use inheritance:

use My::MIME::Lite;
my $mime = My::MIME::Lite->new()
$mime->send()

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package My::MIME::Lite;
use base qw(MIME::Lite);

sub send {
  my $self=shift;
  # override the behavior here.  You can call $self->MIME::Lite::send(
+)
  # or $self->SUPER::send()
}

1;
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or, if you don't mind the warning, you can redeclare the method, in the original namespace (this is very bad, if you're using mod_perl, or something else where multiple scripts share the same modules)

use MIME::Lite;
sub MIME::Lite::send {
  # do whatever here, but you can't call back to the 'real' MIME::Lite
+::send
}
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Re^2: Overriding of a method by gv11ng (Initiate) on Nov 30, 2005 at 16:32 UTC
Thanks for replies. Unfortunately I have asked the question incorrectly. Is it a method which allows not to change code in my modules for the call MIME::Lite->send() method.(i.e. use MIME::Lite rather than My::MIME::Lite)?	[reply]
Re^3: Overriding of a method by Nomad (Pilgrim) on Nov 30, 2005 at 18:37 UTC
Yes. You can directly insert your new method into the symbol table. But it is not recommended. It makes your code hard to follow, hard to debug and unpredictable. Do you know for example what methods inside Mime::Lite might be expecting the 'send' method to have the documented behaviour? Are there other modules you are using that expect Mime::Lite::send to have the documented behaviour? Besides all that, it's ugly. But if I haven't put you off by my little rant above and you still want do to it, here is one of the ways: `MIME::Lite::send = sub { ... your code here ....}` [download] Update:* Of course, another way of doing it is at the bottom of jhourcle's post.	[reply] [d/l]