Re: Wrapping Inline::Java elegantly?

[Scott Serr]

Stefan Seifert wrote:
On Friday 10 October 2008 05:12:08 Scott Serr wrote:
  
I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask, but here is my question...

I want to abstract some complexities away from users, CLASSPATH and some
other things.  So I would like to wrap the Inline Java package in my own
package, so to call the wrapper would look like this:

    use BOB ['JavaClass1', 'JavaClass2'];
or even
    use BOB STUDY => ['JavaClass1', 'JavaClass2'];
    

There's no need to pass an array reference here. Just a plain old list is all 
you need:
use BOB qw(JavaClass1 JavaClass2);
  
Agreed.  I thought it might be easiest to have a handle to the list, as 
I know even LESS how to access the list from inside the module otherwise.
perldoc perlmod
and
perldoc Exporter
should give you all the info you need.
  

I've read those and unfortunately they didn't help me.  (I'm not a Perl 
programmer, but that's probably not an excuse.)

Separate from Inline, Exporter seems like a way to expose module symbols 
to the caller.  Maybe as they are exposed they can be filled out for a 
kind of 2 way communication.

This is what I have done:

foo.pl:

   use strict;   use warnings;
   use BOB STUDY => qw(JavaClass1);


BOB.pm

   package BOB;
   use strict; use warnings;

   our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
   our @EXPORT_OK = qw(STUDY);

   print $STUDY, "\n";

My results:

   Global symbol "$STUDY" requires explicit package name at BOB.pm line 8.

If tried a number of permutations! :)

Instead of letting the user pass in the class list they want to use, I 
may need to just hard code all the classes they might use.  I'm trying 
to clean up a really ugly usage (at work), but that method might be 
"good enough."

Thanks,
-Scott