MooseX::Types::LoadableClass - ClassName type constraint with coercion to load the class.

       Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>

       •   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

       •   Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>

       •   Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

       •   Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org>

       •   Gregory Oschwald <goschwald@maxmind.com>

       •   Сергей Романов <sromanov@cpan.org>

       This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

       This  is  free  software;  you  can  redistribute  it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.

perl v5.40.1                                       2025-04-24                  MooseX::Types::LoadableClass(3pm)

           use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;

           my $tc = subtype as ClassName;
           coerce $tc, from Str, via { Class::Load::load_class($_); $_ };

       I've written those three lines of code quite a lot of times, in quite a lot of places.

       Now I don't have to.

       MooseX::Types::LoadableClass - ClassName type constraint with coercion to load the class.

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           package MyClass;
           use Moose;
           use MooseX::Types::LoadableClass qw/ LoadableClass /;

           has foobar_class => (
               is => 'ro',
               required => 1,
               isa => LoadableClass,
           );

           MyClass->new(foobar_class => 'FooBar'); # FooBar.pm is loaded or an
                                                   # exception is thrown.

"LoadableClass"
       A normal class / package.

   "LoadableRole"
       Like "LoadableClass", except the loaded package must be a Moose::Role.

       version 0.016