Got it, thanks Jesse!
--Peter
>________________________________
> From: Jesse Luehrs <d...@tozt.net>
>To: Peter Shangov <pshan...@yahoo.com>
>Cc: moose <moose@perl.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 15:33
>Subject: Re: BUILDARGS not invoked by 'new_object'
>
>On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 04:08:09AM -0700, Peter Shangov wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It appears that if I create an object with $metaclass->new_object(),
>> BUILDARGS will not be executed, e.g.:
>>
>>
>> {
>> package Foo;
>> use Moose 2.0603;
>>
>> sub BUILDARGS { warn "Building args"; return {} }
>> }
>>
>> Foo->new; # warns
>> Foo->meta->new_object; # doesn't
>>
>> The same does not apply to BUILD, which will be executed in both
>> cases. Is this the desired behaviour?
>
>Yes, this is working as intended. The idea is that the method signature
>for the lower level new_object call should be fixed - it should take a
>hashref of init_args always, regardless of anything else that's going on
>(so that it's more predictable). If you want to fiddle with the API for
>how objects are constructed, you can change how ->new works in your own
>class, but metaclasses are used to describe many different classes.
>
>If this is an issue for you, Foo->meta->name->new(...) works fine.
>
>-doy
>
>
>
