NAME Role::Commons - roles that can be commonly used, for the mutual benefit of all SYNOPSIS use 5.010; { package Local::Class; use Moo; use Role::Commons -all; our $AUTHORITY = 'cpan:JOEBLOGGS'; our $VERSION = '1.000'; } say Local::Class->AUTHORITY if Local::Class->DOES('Role::Commons::Authority'); my $obj = Local::Class->new; say $obj->object_id if $obj->DOES('Role::Commons::ObjectID'); DESCRIPTION Role-Commons is not yet another implementation of roles. It is a collection of generic, reusable roles that hopefully you will love to apply to your classes. These roles are built using Moo::Role, so automatically integrate into the Moose object system if you're using it, but they do not require Moose. The Role::Commons module itself provides shortcuts for applying roles to your package, so that instead of doing: { package Local::Class; use Moo; # or "use Moose" with qw( Role::Commons::Authority Role::Commons::ObjectID ); } You can just do this: { package Local::Class; use Moo; use Role::Commons qw( Authority ObjectID ); } It also handles passing some simple parameters through to the role from the consuming class. (Because Moo doesn't have anything like MooseX::Role::Parameterized.) Roles Role::Commons::Authority Sets up a "AUTHORITY" method for your class which is conceptually a little like "VERSION". Role::Commons::ObjectID Provides an "object_id" method for your class which returns a unique identifier for each object. Role::Commons::Tap Provides a "tap" method for your class, inspired by Ruby's method of the same name. Helpful for writing chained method calls. Obsolescence Role-Commons is the successor for my older projects: authority-shared, Object-AUTHORITY, Object-DOES, Object-Role, and Object-Tap. Role-Commons includes the following (deprecated) modules for the sake of backwards compatibility. I expect to phase them out around 2014. authority::shared, Object::AUTHORITY, Object::Tap. BUGS Please report any bugs to . SEE ALSO Role::Commons::Authority, Role::Commons::ObjectID, Role::Commons::Tap. Role::Tiny, Moo::Role, Moose::Role. AUTHOR Toby Inkster . COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Toby Inkster. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.