I’m new to perl too…but do they have a concept of abstract classes in perl?
On Mar 27, 2014, at 3:27 AM, lesleyb <lesl...@herlug.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 06:43:47PM -0700, Jim Gibson wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2014, at 6:30 PM, Benjamin Fernandis <benjo11...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new with perl and we have virtual machines in our infra. i want to use
>>> perl sys::virt module to manage them, means to shutdown / start vm by
>>> script and for that i wrote below small code.
>>>
>>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>> #
>>> use strict;
>>> use warnings;
>>>
>>> use Sys::Virt;
>>>
>>>
>>> my $vmm = Sys::Virt->new(uri => "qemu:///system");
>>>
>>> my @domains = $vmm->list_domains();
>>>
>>> foreach my $dom (@domains) {
>>> print "Domain ", $dom->get_id, " ", $dom->get_name, "\n";
>>> }
>>> my $vm = 'win7';
>>>
>>> $vm = $vmm->destroy();
>>>
>>>
>>> and when i run it , i got below error.
>>>
>>> Domain 10 win7
>>> Can't locate object method "destroy" via package "Sys::Virt" at vm.pl line
>>> 18.
> This error message means what it says ;-)
> A Perl module is a definition of a class; when you declared $vmm initially you
> instantiated an object of the class Sys::Virt.
> The class Sys::Virt does not have a method declared in it called destroy.
> Therefore your object cannot have a method called destroy.
> You can use the command 'perldoc Sys::Virt' to look at the documentation for
> this class or look at it on line via
> http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/Sys-Virt-1.2.2/lib/Sys/Virt.pm
>
>
> What are you expecting the destroy method to do?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Lesley
>
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