> Any clever idea how I can make an alias attribute?
Hmmm... there may be a simple way of doing it but I can't see anything
obvious on the docs - here's a workaround hack:
package My::App;
use Moose;
has 'colour' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Str',
);
sub BUILDARGS {
my $class = shift;
my $args = @_ == 1 ? $_[0] : { @_ };
# deal with 'color' in constructor
if ( exists( $args->{color} ) ) {
$args->{ colour } = $args->{color};
delete $args->{ color };
}
return $args;
}
# manually setup accessor for color (redirect to colour)
sub color {
my $self = shift;
my $colour = shift;
$self->colour( $colour ) if @_ > 1;
return $self->colour;
}
I'm guessing here - but if something like this hasn't already been written
then I guess you should be able to register your own attribute trait (e.g.
called 'alias') and deal with it in the BUILD method of the trait role, e.g.
http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Moose-0.61/lib/Moose/Cookbook/Meta/Recipe3.pod
Cheers,
Ian
