NAME

MooseX::SimpleConfig - A Moose role for setting attributes from a simple configuration file

VERSION

version 0.11

SYNOPSIS

## A YAML configfile named /etc/my_app.yaml:
foo: bar
baz: 123

## In your class
package My::App;
use Moose;

with 'MooseX::SimpleConfig';

has 'foo' => (is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1);
has 'baz'  => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', required => 1);

# ... rest of the class here

## in your script
#!/usr/bin/perl

use My::App;

my $app = My::App->new_with_config(configfile => '/etc/my_app.yaml');
# ... rest of the script here

####################
###### combined with MooseX::Getopt:

## In your class
package My::App;
use Moose;

with 'MooseX::SimpleConfig';
with 'MooseX::Getopt';

has 'foo' => (is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1);
has 'baz'  => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', required => 1);

# ... rest of the class here

## in your script
#!/usr/bin/perl

use My::App;

my $app = My::App->new_with_options();
# ... rest of the script here

## on the command line
% perl my_app_script.pl -configfile /etc/my_app.yaml -otherthing 123

DESCRIPTION

This role loads simple files to set object attributes. It is based on the abstract role MooseX::ConfigFromFile, and uses Config::Any to load your configuration file. Config::Any will in turn support any of a variety of different config formats, detected by the file extension. See Config::Any for more details about supported formats.

To pass additional arguments to Config::Any you must provide a config_any_args() method, for example:

sub config_any_args {
  return {
    driver_args => { General => { '-InterPolateVars' => 1 } }
  };
}

Like all MooseX::ConfigFromFile -derived file loaders, this module is automatically supported by the MooseX::Getopt role as well, which allows specifying -configfile on the command line.

ATTRIBUTES

configfile

Provided by the base role MooseX::ConfigFromFile. You can provide a default configuration file pathname like so:

has '+configfile' => ( default => '/etc/myapp.yaml' );

You can pass an array of filenames if you want, but as usual the array has to be wrapped in a sub ref.

has '+configfile' => ( default => sub { [ '/etc/myapp.yaml', '/etc/myapp_local.yml' ] } );

Config files are trivially merged at the top level, with the right-hand files taking precedence.

CLASS METHODS

new_with_config

Provided by the base role MooseX::ConfigFromFile. Acts just like regular new(), but also accepts an argument configfile to specify the file from which to load other attributes. Explicit arguments to new_with_config will override anything loaded from the file.

get_config_from_file

Called internally by either new_with_config or MooseX::Getopt's new_with_options. Invokes Config::Any to parse configfile.

AUTHOR

Brandon L. Black <blblack@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Brandon L. Black <blblack@gmail.com>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

CONTRIBUTORS

• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

• Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>

• Brandon L Black <blblack@gmail.com>

• Alexander Hartmaier <alex.hartmaier@gmail.com>

• lestrrat <lestrrat+github@gmail.com>

• Сергей Романов <sromanov@cpan.org>

• Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

• Zbigniew Lukasiak <zby@cpan.org>

• Alex Howarth <alex.howarth@gmail.com>