Hello again- I have an entire family of foreign classes that I would like to shim or wrap, so that I have another layer of indirection between my app and those classes. The foreign classes all happen to be Moose-based too, but I can't always assume that in the future.
Currently, I have a parameterized role that makes it relatively easy to set up a class that has some "delegate" attribute and then hands off whatever attributes/methods you want. But this is just shorthand for declaring an "isa" and "handles". I still have to explicitly construct the wrapping class and pass the (foreign) delegate to it. The foreign classes don't come from some kind of abstract factory or container that I could override. They just come as is, pre-wired together. So I find myself building my own factories to do the wrapping for me. Architecturally, I think it makes sense. And I like using curries to pass extra state into the wrappers. But it sure requires a lot of code. I wonder if there is a more succinct way to do this. I want to say something like "for classes X, Y, and Z, always turn them into My::X and My::Y and My::Z using the interfaces that I want." Does that make any sense? -Jeff
