I've been a proponent of adopting Moose (and MooseX::Declare) at work for several months. The style it encourages will really help the maintainability of our codebase, but not without some initial cost of learning new syntax, and especially in learning how to parse type validation errors.
I've seen discussion online of this problem, and thought I'd post a query to this community for:
a) known solutions
b) discussion of what validation error messages should look like
c) propose a proof of concept that implements some ideas
I'll also contact the authors, but I've seen some good discussion this forum too, so I thought I'd post something public.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use MooseX::Declare;
class Foo {
has 'x' => (isa => 'Int', is => 'ro');
method doit( Int $id, Str :$z, Str :$y ) {
print "doit called with id = " . $id . "\n";
print "z = " . $z . "\n";
print "y = " . $y . "\n";
}
method bar( ) {
$self->doit(); # 2, z => 'hello', y => 'there' );
}
}
my $foo = Foo->new( x => 4 );
$foo->bar();
Note the mismatch in the call to Foo::doit with the method's signature.
The error message that results is:
Validation failed for 'MooseX::Types::Structured::Tuple[MooseX::Types::Structured::Tuple[Object,Int],MooseX::Types::Structured::Dict[z,MooseX::Types::Structured::Optional[Str],y,MooseX::Types::Structured::Optional[Str]]]' failed with value [ [ Foo=HASH(0x2e02dd0) ], { } ], Internal Validation Error is: Validation failed for 'MooseX::Types::Structured::Tuple[Object,Int]' failed with value [ Foo{ x: 4 } ] at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/MooseX/Method/Signatures/Meta/Method.pm line 441
MooseX::Method::Signatures::Meta::Method::validate('MooseX::Method::Signatures::Meta::Method=HASH(0x2ed9dd0)', 'ARRAY(0x2eb8b28)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/MooseX/Method/Signatures/Meta/Method.pm line