> Have you considered adding more options to the 'Type' attribute?
Because you asked, I added custom type checking in Object::InsideOut v1.13. Check
here for the announcement.
> 1. If I want the type to be a scalar, I can say 'Type' => '', right?
No, that results in no type checking at all. Using custom type checking
in the OIO 1.13, you can achieve SCALAR type checking like this:
my @data :Field('Accessor' => 'data', 'Type' => sub { ! ref($_[0]) } );
> 2. If you have 'NUMERIC', why not have 'INTEGER' ?
I originally put in 'NUMERIC' because it was so simple using
Scalar::Util::looks_like_number(). Other numerical checks would have taken
more code. Now, with custom type checking you can define whatever you need.
See the
announcement post
for an example of INTEGER type checking.
> 3. In my program, I have a lot of 'POSITIVE' (Integers > 0).
Here's an example for that:
package My::Class; {
use Object::InsideOut;
sub positive : Private {
return (Scalar::Util::looks_like_number($_[0]) &&
($_[0] > 0));
}
my @num :Field('Acc' => 'num', 'type' => \&My::Class::positive);
}
> 4. I wish there was a way to specify 'ARRAY', where anything but an array ref is an error.
Okay. I added two new types for that: 'ARRAY_REF', and 'HASH_REF'
Thanks for the inspiration. Hope it all works for you.
