NAME MooseX::SlurpyConstructor - Assign all unknown arguments to attribute in object constructor. SYNOPSIS package ASDF; use Moose; use MooseX::SlurpyConstructor; has fixed => ( is => 'ro', ); has slurpy => ( is => 'ro', slurpy => 1, ); package main; ASDF->new({ fixed => 100, unknown1 => "a", unknown2 => [ 1..3 ] })->dump; # returns: # $VAR1 = bless( { # 'slurpy' => { # 'unknown2' => [ # 1, # 2, # 3 # ], # 'unknown1' => 'a' # }, # 'fixed' => 100 # }, 'ASDF' ); DESCRIPTION Including this module within Moose-based classes, and declaring an attribute as 'slurpy' will allow capturing of all unknown constructor arguments in the given attribute. When composing a class, an error will be raised if more than one attribute of the class is marked as 'slurpy'. Also, at object instatiation time, an error will be raised if the class being instantiated uses this one, but does not declare a slurpy attribute. SEE ALSO MooseX::StrictConstructor The opposite of this module, making constructors die on unknown arguments. Note that if both of these are used together, SlurpyConstructor will take precedence and strict constructor explosions will never occour. This module can also be used in migrating code from vanilla Moose to using MooseX::StrictConstructor. That was one of my original motivations for writing it; to allow staged migration. AUTHOR Mark Morgan "" Thanks to the folks from moose mailing list and IRC channels for helping me find my way around some of the Moose bits I didn't know of before writing this module. Thanks also to Christian Walde for bugfix patches. BUGS As usual, send bugs or feature requests to "bug-moosex-slurpyconstructor@rt.cpan.org" or through web interface . COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2009-2010 Mark Morgan, All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.