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I would like to do this stuff on runtime. Is there documentation about this stuff ?

If you are designing the objects, then look at Class::Prototyped.

my $cp = Class::Prototyped->new(); my $mirror = $cp->reflect(); $mirror->addSlots( field1 => 'foo', sub1 => sub { print "this is sub1 printing field1: '".$_[0]->field1."'\n"; }, ); $mirror->deleteSlot('sub1');

There are others, too, like Class::Object or Class::Decorator that do things like this in various ways.

If you didn't design the object, then you could use Class::Adapter to wrap the object while adding your own methods.

As more of a hack, if you really need to do it on the fly, you can rebless the object into a dynamically generated subclass that has the methods you want. E.g.

# Create an object of Some::Class my $obj = Some::Class->new(); $obj->foo(); # where foo() is a method of Some::Class # Create the new "class" by assigning @ISA and a method in the new nam +espace @Some::Class::Extended::ISA = qw/Some::Class/; *Some::Class::Extended::bar = sub { my $self = shift; print "Hello, Ba +r" }; # Rebless the object to the new class bless $obj, 'Some::Class::Extended'; $obj->foo; # From Some::Class $obj->bar; # From Some::Class::Extended

-xdg

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