Badger::Exporter

Thus Spake Andy:

Badger::Exporter is an OO version of the Exporter module where inheritance Just Works™. If you create a subclass of a module then it will automatically export everything that its base class(es) export. Right the way up the chain. It also makes it easy to define custom export hooks - something that is a little tedious using Exporter.

Badger::Exporter started life as an OO wrapper around Exporter. The code evolved and ended up being twice as large and four times as complex as it needed to be. So I eventually bit the bullet and re-implemented it using all of the core core from Exporter, but re-jiggled into my OO framework. It's now much smaller, simpler and faster. Code re-use is good, but sometime coder re-use is just as important. The kind souls who developed Exporter wrote down a clear and concise description of the correct algorithm to use. In fact, they wrote it down in Perl code so it was really simple to adapt. Conclusion: algorithms are more important than implementations.

Badger::Exporter, like most of Badger, has a tiered API that allows you to hook into different levels of complexity. At the lowest level, everything is done using the lowest common denominator of package variables. Then we provide some methods operating at a higher level of abstraction which effectively set these variables for you. They might also perform other tasks, like validation, etc., as a convenience and/or to hide implementation details. Above that we have a metaprogramming layer for those who want it. This is effectively a layer of short-cuts to having these class methods called for you.