byterock

Still exploring the MooseX name-space these days and today I was going to have a look at 'MooseX::YAML' as that was the format I was saving my AD&D data in it (for the time being) I thought it might be a good fit to load things up faster or at least save me some code in writing a YAML parse role.

So I started out with a little YAML to test

use MooseX::YAML;

my $dwarf_yaml =  <<YAML;

  class: 

    - Fighter:8

  dexterity: 15

  constitution: 16

  charisma: 18

  race: 'Dwarf'

  name: 'Glarp Gnlnarn'

  strength: 18

  exceptional: 91

YAML

Then I should just be able to load in my YAML and be done.

my $dwarf_yaml = MooseX::YAML::Load($dwarf_yaml);

my $dwarf = MooseX::Blessed::Reconstruct->new->visit($dwarf_yaml);

print $dwarf->name()."\n";

print "charisma=".$dwarf->charisma()."\n";

print "strength=".$dwarf->strength();

print " (".$dwarf->exceptional().")\n"

	if($dwarf->can('exceptional'));

print "opens a door on a ". $dwarf->open_door_on_a()."\n";

print "opens a barred door on a ".$dwarf->open_barred_doors_on_a()."\n"

  if($dwarf->can('open_barred_doors_on_a'));

But I get this

Can't call method "name" on unblessed reference at clone_it.pl line 28.

Well a little closer examination of the rather sparse POD and I see this

--- !My::Module # this syntax requires YAML::XS

So maybe I need to tell it what Class I am trying to load so I give it a try like this

my $dwarf_yaml = <<YAML;
  --- !RPG::ADD::Character
  class: 
  ...

and now it works

Glarp Gnlnarn

charisma=18

strength=18 (91)

opens a door on a 4

Ok that works, but perhaps they could improve the PDO a little explaining the '--- !' syntax as well as they explained the YAML parser syntax,

So now I can skip the YMAL file loading 'Role' I was working on because this works fine;

my $dwarf = MooseX::YAML::LoadFile('D:/blogs/Glarp_Gnlnarn.yaml');

Great I have saved myself a little typing and now the only problem is now I have to change how I have been saving my characters. Well now that I have this working perhaps it is time to work that part of the code out??