in reply to Runtime loading of arbitrary objects
Well, taking your question literally, it's simply:
There's no magic involved in using a string as a classname.$class_name = "Calvin::Hobbes"; # from some value above my $new_object = $class_name->new;
But perhaps you also intend to dynamically load a require file. In which case, I'd do something like this:
Notice the validation there. Essential. Without that, damage will result. Use whatever mechanism you want, but it must match one of the names you are expecting, and certainly not one of the names you are not.if (grep $class_name eq $_, qw(Calvin::Hobbes Peter::Gabriel Dog::Day: +:Afternoon)) { # must validate the name, or security holes will run rampant eval "require $class_name"; die $@ if $@; $object = $class_name->new; }
Also, this approach presumes a constant constructor called new. That's not necessarily the case, since Perl doesn't require any constructor called new to be defined. In that case, you'll want a table, like:
The nice thing about this approach is that the table of "how" is automatically the validation table for "permitted".my %make_a = qw( Calvin::Hobbes new Peter::Gabriel play Dog::Day::Afternoon watch ); ... if (my $constructor = $make_a{$class_name}) { unless ($INC{$class_name}) { eval "require $class_name"; die $@ if $@; } $object = $class_name->$constructor(); }
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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