NAME MooseX::AbstractMethod - Declare methods requirements that must be satisfied VERSION This document describes version 0.004 of MooseX::AbstractMethod - released August 31, 2012 as part of MooseX-AbstractMethod. SYNOPSIS use Moose; use MooseX::Abstract; requires 'bar'; # synonm to 'requires' abstract 'foo'; DESCRIPTION This extensions allows classes to flag certain methods as being required to be implemented by a subclass, much as a Moose::Role does with 'requires'. USAGE As in the synopsis, simply mark certain methods as being required by subclasses by passing their names to "abstract" or "requires". This will cause a method of the same name to be installed in the class that will die horribly if it's ever called. Additionally, when a class is made immutable, all of its methods are checked to see if they're marked as abstract; if any abstract methods exists that were not created in the current class, we die horribly. Checking for method satisfaction on make_immutable isn't perfect, but AFAICT it's the most reasonable approach possible at the moment. (Corrections welcome.) NEW SUGAR abstract abstract() allows one to declare a method dependency that must be satisfied by a subclass before it is invoked, and before the subclass is made immutable. abstract 'method_name_that_must_be_satisfied'; requires requires() is a synonym for abstract() and works in the way you'd expect. SOURCE The development version is on github at <http://github.com/RsrchBoy/moosex-abstractmethod> and may be cloned from <git://github.com/RsrchBoy/moosex-abstractmethod.git> BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/RsrchBoy/moosex-abstractmethod/issues When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. AUTHOR Chris Weyl <cweyl@alumni.drew.edu> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is Copyright (c) 2011 by Chris Weyl. This is free software, licensed under: The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1, February 1999