NAME Object::Tiny - Class building as simple as it gets SYNOPSIS # Define a class package Foo; use Object::Tiny qw{ bar baz }; 1; # Use the class my $object = Foo->new( bar => 1 ); print "bar is " . $object->bar . "\n"; DESCRIPTION There's a whole bunch of class builders out there. In fact, creating a class builder seems to be something of a right of passage (this is my fifth, at least). Unfortunately, most of the time I want a class builder I'm in a hurry and sketching out lots of fairly simple data classes with fairly simple structure, mostly just read-only accessors, and that's about it. Often this is for code that won't end up on CPAN, so adding a small dependency doesn't matter much. I just want to be able to define these classes FAST. By which I mean LESS typing than writing them by hand, not more. And I don't need all those weird complex features that bloat out the code and take over the whole way I build modules. And so, I present yet another member of the Tiny family of modules, Object::Tiny. The goal here is really just to save me some typing. There's others that could do the job just fine, but I want something that does as little as possible and creates code the same way I'd have written it by hand anyway. To use Object::Tiny, just call it with a list of accessors to be created. use Object::Tiny 'foo', 'bar'; For a large list, I lay it out like this... use Object::Tiny qw{ item_font_face item_font_color item_font_size item_text_content item_display_time seperator_font_face seperator_font_color seperator_font_size seperator_text_content }; This will create a bunch of simple accessors, and set the inheritance to be the child of Object::Tiny. Object::Tiny is empty other than a basic "new" constructor which does the following sub new { my $class = shift; return bless { @_ }, $class; } In fact, if doing the following in your class gets annoying... sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = $class->SUPER::new( @_ ); # Extra checking and such ... return $self; } ... then feel free to ditch the SUPER call and just create the hash yourself! It's not going to make a lick of different and there's nothing magic going on under the covers you might break. And that's really all there is to it. Let a million simple data classes bloom. Features? We don't need no stinking features. SUPPORT Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at For other issues, contact the author. AUTHOR Adam Kennedy SEE ALSO Config::Tiny COPYRIGHT Copyright 2007 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.