Re^3: Moose object construction

What you want to do is change your visitor attribute to be something like:

has 'visitors' => (
    is => 'ro',
    writer => '_set_visitors',
    init_arg => undef,
);
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Then inside your BUILD method, you will want to do:

$self->_set_visitors( ... );
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The init_arg being set to "undef" will ensure that no one can do:

MyClass->new( visitors => ... )
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But all this said, you should really spend some time reading the Moose::Manual. Several of the mistakes you have made seem to be caused by the fact you are guessing and/or making assumptions of your own about how Moose works, rather then actually taking the time to learn how it actually works. You also might find some of the presentations on http://moose.perl.org helpful as well, there are several excellent introductory ones from recent conferences.

You really too should give a look to MooseX::SimpleConfig as it solves this problem for you and the code has been battle tested already.

-stvn

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Re^4: Moose object construction by thargas (Deacon) on Feb 10, 2011 at 17:17 UTC
Thanks for this. I wasn't aware that you could have a writer defined for a ro attribute. It still seems wrong to me that a writer should exist, and work, on a ro attribute, but it does solve the problem.	[reply]
Re^5: Moose object construction by stvn (Monsignor) on Feb 11, 2011 at 00:47 UTC
It still seems wrong to me that a writer should exist, and work, on a ro attribute Well, really the 'ro' and 'rw' are just shorthand for the various combinations of 'reader', 'writer' and 'accessor'. So a 'ro' attribute is just shorthand for: `has 'foo' => ( reader => 'foo' );` [download] And a 'rw' attribute is just shorthand for: `has 'foo' => ( accessor => 'foo' );` [download] It is also quite possible to do really weird things like: `has 'foo' => ( reader => 'get_foo', writer => 'set_foo', accessor => ' +foo' );` [download] which may seem odd, but could be very useful in some situations where the API requires it. This is all part of Moose's policy to provide the best practices at your fingertips, but not get in the way when you need to do something weird, which if you think about it is not all that different from Perl itself. -stvn	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Moose object construction by saintex (Scribe) on Feb 11, 2011 at 15:13 UTC
Thank you all for suggestions!	[reply]