Object::Base Multi-threaded base class to establish a class deriving relationship with parent classes package Foo; use Object::Base; my $attr3_def = 6; my $attr3_val; attributes ':shared', 'attr1', 'attr2', ':lazy', 'attr3' => { 'default' => sub { my ($self, $attr) = @_; $attr3_val = $attr3_def; return $attr3_def; }, 'getter' => sub { my ($self, $attr, $current_value) = @_; return $attr3_val+1; }, 'setter' => sub { my ($self, $attr, $current_value, $new_value) = @_; $attr3_val = $new_value-1; }, }; package Bar; use Object::Base 'Foo'; attributes 'attr3', ':shared' => undef, 'attr2' => undef; package main; use threads; use threads::shared; # object of Foo my $foo = Foo->new(); # usage of attribute $foo->attr1(1); print $foo->attr1, "\n"; # prints '1' # attributes are lvalued $foo->attr1++; print $foo->attr1, "\n"; # prints '2' # special attribute ':shared' print "\$foo is ", is_shared($foo)? "shared": "not shared", "\n"; # attributes can have modifiers: default, getter, setter print "attr3 value ", $foo->attr3, " and stored as $attr3_val", "\n"; # prints 'attr3 value 7 and stored as 6' # object of derived class Bar my $bar = Bar->new(); # attributes can be added derived classes $bar->attr3(3); # attributes are inheritable $bar->attr1(3); # attributes are overridable #1 eval { $bar->attr2 = 4 }; print "Eval: $@"; # prints error 'Eval: Attribute attr2 is not defined in Bar at ...' # attributes are overridable #2 print "\$bar is ", is_shared($bar)? "shared": "not shared", "\n"; # prints '$bar is not shared' # assigning ref values to shared class attributes eval { $foo->attr2 = { key1 => 'val1' } }; print "Eval: $@"; # prints error 'Eval: Invalid value for shared scalar at ...' $foo->attr2({ key2 => 'val2' }); # uses shared_clone assigning ref value print $foo->attr2->{key2}, "\n"; # prints 'val2' # attributes in thread my $thr1 = threads->create(sub { $foo->attr1 = 5; $bar->attr1 = 5; }); my $thr2 = threads->create(sub { sleep 1; print "\$foo is shared and attr1: ", $foo->attr1, ", \$bar is not shared and attr1: ", $bar->attr1, "\n"; }); $thr1->join(); $thr2->join(); Object::Exception Multi-threaded base exception class package SampleException; use Object::Base qw(Object::Exception); package main; use Object::Exception; # Enable DEBUG for traceback our $DEBUG = 1; # throws Object::Exception type and its msg: Exception1 eval { throw("Exception1"); }; if ($@) { warn $@ if ref($@) eq "Object::Exception"; } # throws SampleException type and its msg: This is sample exception sub sub_exception() { SampleException->throw("This is sample exception"); } eval { sub_exception(); }; if ($@) { # $@ and $@->message returns same result warn $@->message if ref($@) eq "SampleException"; } # throws Object::Exception type and its message: SampleException. Because msg is not defined! eval { SampleException->throw(); }; if ($@) { if (ref($@) eq "SampleException") { warn $@ } else { # warns 'This is type of Object::Exception and its message: SampleException' warn "This is type of ".ref($@)." and its message: $@"; } } INSTALLATION To install this module type the following perl Makefile.PL make make test make install from CPAN cpan -i Object::Base DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: * threads * threads::shared * forks REPOSITORY GitHub CPAN AUTHOR Orkun Karaduman COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2017 Orkun Karaduman This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .