NAME MouseX::SimpleConfig - A Mouse role for setting attributes from a simple configfile VERSION version 0.10 SYNOPSIS ## A YAML configfile named /etc/my_app.yaml: foo: bar baz: 123 ## In your class package My::App; use Mouse; with 'MouseX::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 MouseX::Getopt: ## In your class package My::App; use Mouse; with 'MouseX::SimpleConfig'; with 'MouseX::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 configfiles to set object attributes. It is based on the abstract role MouseX::ConfigFromFile, and uses Config::Any to load your configfile. 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. Like all MouseX::ConfigFromFile -derived configfile loaders, this module is automatically supported by the MouseX::Getopt role as well, which allows specifying "-configfile" on the commandline. ATTRIBUTES configfile Provided by the base role MouseX::ConfigFromFile. You can provide a default configfile 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. METHODS new_with_config Class method provided by the base role MouseX::ConfigFromFile. Acts just like regular "new()", but also accepts an argument "configfile" to specify the configfile from which to load other attributes. Explicit arguments to "new_with_config" will override anything loaded from the configfile. get_config_from_file Class method called internally by either "new_with_config" or MouseX::Getopt's "new_with_options". Invokes Config::Any to parse "configfile". BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website http://github.com/mjg/MouseX-SimpleConfig/issues When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. AUTHORS * Brandon L. Black * Mark Gardner COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Infinity Interactive. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.