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.IX Title "Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Debugging_BaseClassRole 3"
.TH Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Debugging_BaseClassRole 3 2026-06-15 "perl v5.42.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
Moose::Cookbook::Extending::Debugging_BaseClassRole \- Providing a role for the base object class
.SH VERSION
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 2.4000
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 1
\&  package MooseX::Debugging;
\&
\&  use Moose::Exporter;
\&
\&  Moose::Exporter\->setup_import_methods(
\&      base_class_roles => [\*(AqMooseX::Debugging::Role::Object\*(Aq],
\&  );
\&
\&  package MooseX::Debugging::Role::Object;
\&
\&  use Moose::Role;
\&
\&  sub BUILD {}
\&  after BUILD => sub {
\&      my $self = shift;
\&
\&      warn "Made a new " . ( ref $self ) . " object\en";
\&  };
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
In this example, we provide a role for the base object class that adds
some simple debugging output. Every time an object is created, it
spits out a warning saying what type of object it was.
.PP
Obviously, a real debugging role would do something more interesting,
but this recipe is all about how we apply that role.
.PP
In this case, with the combination of Moose::Exporter and
Moose::Util::MetaRole, we ensure that when a module does \f(CW\*(C`use\ MooseX::Debugging\*(C'\fR, it automatically gets the debugging role applied
to its base object class.
.PP
There are a few pieces of code worth looking at more closely.
.PP
.Vb 3
\&  Moose::Exporter\->setup_import_methods(
\&      base_class_roles => [\*(AqMooseX::Debugging::Role::Object\*(Aq],
\&  );
.Ve
.PP
This creates an \f(CW\*(C`import\*(C'\fR method in the \f(CW\*(C`MooseX::Debugging\*(C'\fR package. Since we
are not actually exporting anything, we do not pass \f(CW\*(C`setup_import_methods\*(C'\fR
any parameters related to exports, but we need to have an \f(CW\*(C`import\*(C'\fR method to
ensure that our \f(CW\*(C`init_meta\*(C'\fR method is called. The \f(CW\*(C`init_meta\*(C'\fR is created by
\&\f(CW\*(C`setup_import_methods\*(C'\fR for us, since we passed the \f(CW\*(C`base_class_roles\*(C'\fR
parameter. The generated \f(CW\*(C`init_meta\*(C'\fR will in turn call
Moose::Util::MetaRole::apply_base_class_roles.
.PP
.Vb 4
\&  sub BUILD {}
\&  after BUILD => sub {
\&      ...
\&  };
.Ve
.PP
Due to the way role composition currently works, if the class that a role is
composed into contains a \f(CW\*(C`BUILD\*(C'\fR method, then that will override the \f(CW\*(C`BUILD\*(C'\fR
method in any roles it composes, which is typically not what you want. Using a
method modifier on \f(CW\*(C`BUILD\*(C'\fR avoids this issue, since method modifiers compose
together rather than being overridden. Method modifiers require that a method
exists in order to wrap, however, so we also provide a stub method to wrap if
no \f(CW\*(C`BUILD\*(C'\fR method exists in the class.
.SH AUTHORS
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
.IP \(bu 4
Stevan Little <stevan@cpan.org>
.IP \(bu 4
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
.IP \(bu 4
Jesse Luehrs <doy@cpan.org>
.IP \(bu 4
Shawn M Moore <sartak@cpan.org>
.IP \(bu 4
יובל קוג\*(Aqמן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
.IP \(bu 4
Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
.IP \(bu 4
Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
.IP \(bu 4
Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@cpan.org>
.IP \(bu 4
Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>
.IP \(bu 4
Matt S Trout <mstrout@cpan.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.