Thanks for the reply.

doesis a sugar function exported by Moose. It's job is to check if a given Moose class 'does' a role. (See http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Moose-0.89/lib/Moose/Manual/Roles.pod).

I am more inclined to believe that the class hasn't been loaded because in the output of t/Parser.t, I don't see the line finished loading plugin.

Admin_server::Parser::Plugin::FeedHandler has four functions - none of which is does. I could list them out but not sure if they are relevant to the discussion.

does is a sugar function exported by Moose. It's job is to check if a given Moose class 'does' a role.

Yes, I know, I am the (original) author of Moose and Class::MOP :)

And actually, does is not part of the exported sugar, it is a method of Moose::Object.

I am more inclined to believe that the class hasn't been loaded because in the output of t/Parser.t, I don't see the line finished loading plugin.

Yes, but the failure is saying there is no does method, and you don't call the does until after that line would be printed. There is no reason why Class::MOP::is_class_loaded would be calling does as does is a Moose thing and not a Class::MOP thing. Perhaps you are calling or loading an older version of the Admin_server::Parser module?

Admin_server::Parser::Plugin::FeedHandler has four functions - none of which is does. I could list them out but not sure if they are relevant to the discussion.

Perhaps it wouldn't be helpful, but it wouldn't hurt either. It also might be good to let us know the version of Moose/Class::MOP your running too.

For what its worth, it works on my machine when I reproduced your code and setup.

-stvn

Hi Steven,

Whoa!! Respect Sir!!

I must apologize for my delay in reply. I just had a kid and had to take care of the little doodle and mommy.

Ok so here are the point(s).

1. According to http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Moose-0.92/lib/Moose/Object.pm, This class is the default base class for all Moose-using classes. When you use Moose in this class, your class will inherit from this class.. And my FeedHandler.pm starts off with:

    19 package Admin_server::Parser::Plugin::Feedhandler;
    20 use MooseX::FollowPBP;
    21 use Moose;
    22 
    23 with 'Admin_server::Interface::ParserInterface';
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   So even does should be available anyway.
2. I have for functions in the module. They are:

   is_yours()

   tell_status()

   tell_script_names()

   tell_instance_info()

3. I am currently using version 0.92 of Class::MOP.

Thank You,

- Markov

So I thought I would print out the symbol table in %Admin_server::Parser,

          
 75         print "Plugin $plugin is loaded indeed.\n"
 76           if ( Class::MOP::is_class_loaded($plugin) );
 77         
 78         #=====================================
 79         # Let's print out the symbol table to check
 80         # whether the plugins loads up.
 81         #=====================================                    
+                          
 82         
 83         print '-'x80, "\n";
 84         print 'Printing out the symbol table....', "\n";          
+                                   
 85         print '-'x80, "\n";
 86         foreach my $key  ( sort {$a cmp $b} keys %Admin_server::Pa
+rser:: ) {                         
 87             print $key, "\n";                                     
+                                   
 88         }
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and this is what i get...

$prove -lv t/Parser.t
t/Parser.t .. 
1..4
ok 1 - use Admin_server::Parser;
ok 2 - Admin_server::Parser can be instantiated.
ok 3 - Instantiated object is of type Admin_server::Parser
Found plugins: Admin_server::Parser::Plugin::FeedHandler
Loading plugin Admin_server::Parser::Plugin::FeedHandler
finished loading Admin_server::Parser::Plugin::FeedHandler
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------
Printing out the symbol table....
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------
BEGIN
BUILD
BUILDARGS
DEMOLISH
DEMOLISHALL
DESTROY
ISA
ParserInterface
Plugin::
_build_plugins
a
b
blessed
can
clear_plugins
confess
get_plugins
has_plugins
import
isa
meta
new
tell_app_name
tell_app_status
Can't locate object method "does" via package "Admin_server::Parser::P
+lugin::FeedHandler" (perhaps you forgot to load "Admin_server::Parser
+::Plugin::FeedHandler"?) at /Volumes/UserData/Users/dattanik/Programs
+/Perl/Work_area/Admin_server/lib/Admin_server/Parser.pm line 91.
# Looks like you planned 4 tests but ran 3.
# Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 3.
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So as you can see, there is no FeedHandler sitting there..... I am lost :(