How can I perform introspection in Perl?

Question

In the Perl OOP, how can I dump all methods / fields in this class and its parent class.

my ($self) = @_;

I saw a lot of constructors as a

Answer 1

1. What is @_? See perldoc -v @_

2. perldoc perlobj

mjd has an interesting article on introspection in Perl.

In addition, How do I list available methods on a given object or package in Perl? answers part of your question.

My preferred answer to that question uses Class::Inspector:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict; use warnings;

use Class::Inspector;
use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;

my $methods = Class::Inspector->methods(
    'HTML::TokeParser::Simple', 'full', 'public'
);

print "Methods:\n";
print "$_\n" for @$methods;

print "Superclasses\n";
use Class::ISA;
print join(", ", Class::ISA::super_path('HTML::TokeParser::Simple')), "\n";