NAME Class::Facade - interface to one or more delegates SYNOPSIS use Class::Facade; my $facade = Class::Facade->new({ method1 => sub { ... }, method2 => [ $class, $method, $arg1, $arg2, ... ], method3 => [ $object, $method, $arg1, $arg2, ... ], method4 => { class => 'My::Delegate::Class', method => 'method_name', args => [ $arg1, $arg2, ... ], }, method5 => { object => $object, method => 'method_name', args => [ $arg1, $arg2, ... ], }, }); $facade->method1($more_args1, ...); $facade->method2($more_args2, ...); # ...etc... DESCRIPTION This module implements a simple facade class, allowing you to create objects that delegate their methods to subroutines or other object or class methods. To create a delegate object, simply call the new() constructor passing a reference to a hash array describing the methods and their delegates. Each key in the hash specifies a method name for your facade object. Each value specifies the delegate target and should be a reference to a subroutine, list or hash array. In the case of a list, the elements in the list should be a class name or object reference followed by a method name and a list of any arguments that you want passed to the method when it is called. Any additional arguments that the caller of the facade method specifies will also be passed. In the case of a hash, the 'class' or 'object' element specifies a class name or object references, the 'method' element names the class/object method to be called and 'args' is an optional reference to a list of arguments as above. The Class::Facade constructor creates accessor methods in the module's symbol table. One important side effect of this is that all methods defined will be created for all object of the same class. For this reason it is recommended that you create your own facade modules which are subclass from Class::Facade. package My::Facade::One; use base qw( Class::Facade ); package My::Facade::Two; use base qw( Class::Facade ); package main; my $one = My::Facade::One->new({ ... }); my $two = My::Facade::Two->new({ ... }); AUTHOR Andy Wardley COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.