Class::Factory::Util (3)

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NAME

Class::Factory::Util - Provide utility methods for factory classes

SYNOPSIS

  package My::Class;

  use Class::Factory::Util;

  My::Class->subclasses;

DESCRIPTION

This module exports a method that is useful for factory classes.

USAGE

When this module is loaded, it creates a method in its caller named "subclasses()". This method returns a list of the available subclasses for the package. It does this by looking in @INC as well as the directory containing the caller, and finding any modules in the immediate subdirectories of the calling module.

So if you have the modules ``Foo::Base'', ``Foo::Base::Bar'', and ``Foo::Base::Baz'', then the return value of "Foo::Base->subclasses()" would be ``Bar'' and ``Baz''.

SUPPORT

Please submit bugs to the system at rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=class-factory-util or via email at bug-class-factory-util@rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Dave Rolsky, <autarch@urth.org>.

Removed from Alzabo and packaged by Terrence Brannon, <tbone@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003-2007 David Rolsky. All rights reserved. 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

file included with this module.