| App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering |
App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
version 0.327
in yourcmd:
use YourApp; YourApp->run;
in YourApp.pm:
package YourApp; use App::Cmd::Setup -app; 1;
in YourApp/Command/blort.pm:
package YourApp::Command::blort; use YourApp -command; use strict; use warnings;
sub opt_spec {
return (
[ "blortex|X", "use the blortex algorithm" ],
[ "recheck|r", "recheck all results" ],
);
}
sub validate_args {
my ($self, $opt, $args) = @_;
# no args allowed but options!
$self->usage_error("No args allowed") if @$args;
}
sub execute {
my ($self, $opt, $args) = @_;
my $result = $opt->{blortex} ? blortex() : blort();
recheck($result) if $opt->{recheck};
print $result;
}
and, finally, at the command line:
knight!rjbs$ yourcmd blort --recheck
All blorts successful.
App::Cmd is intended to make it easy to write complex command-line applications without having to think about most of the annoying things usually involved.
For information on how to start using App::Cmd, see the App::Cmd::Tutorial manpage.
my $cmd = App::Cmd->new(\%arg);
This method returns a new App::Cmd object. During initialization, command plugins will be loaded.
Valid arguments are:
no_commands_plugin - if true, the command list plugin is not added
no_help_plugin - if true, the help plugin is not added
no_version_plugin - if true, the version plugin is not added
plugin_search_path - The path to search for commands in. Defaults to
results of plugin_search_path method
If no_commands_plugin is not given, the App::Cmd::Command::commands manpage will be
required, and it will be registered to handle all of its command names not
handled by other plugins.
If no_help_plugin is not given, the App::Cmd::Command::help manpage will be required,
and it will be registered to handle all of its command names not handled by
other plugins. Note: ``help'' is the default command, so if you do not load
the default help plugin, you should provide your own or override the
default_command method.
If no_version_plugin is not given, the App::Cmd::Command::version manpage will be
required to show the application's version with command --version. The
version command is not included in the command list.
$cmd->run;
This method runs the application. If called the class, it will instantiate a new App::Cmd object to run.
It determines the requested command (generally by consuming the first command-line argument), finds the plugin to handle that command, parses the remaining arguments according to that plugin's rules, and runs the plugin.
It passes the contents of the global argument array (@ARGV) to
prepare_command, but @ARGV is not altered by running an App::Cmd.
Normally App::Cmd uses @ARGV for its commandline arguments. You can override
this method to change that behavior for testing or otherwise.
If /prepare_args is not changed and there are no arguments in @ARGV,
this method is called and should return an arrayref to be used as the arguments
to the program. By default, it returns an empty arrayref.
my $program_name = $app->arg0;
my $full_program_name = $app->full_arg0;
These methods return the name of the program invoked to run this application.
This is determined by inspecting $0 when the App::Cmd object is
instantiated, so it's probably correct, but doing weird things with App::Cmd
could lead to weird values from these methods.
If the program was run like this:
knight!rjbs$ ~/bin/rpg dice 3d6
Then the methods return:
arg0 - rpg full_arg0 - /Users/rjbs/bin/rpg
These values are captured when the App::Cmd object is created, so it is safe to
assign to $0 later.
my ($cmd, $opt, @args) = $app->prepare_command(@ARGV);
This method will load the plugin for the requested command, use its options to parse the command line arguments, and eventually return everything necessary to actually execute the command.
This method returns the name of the command to run if none is given on the command line. The default default is ``help''
$app->execute_command($cmd, \%opt, @args);
This method will invoke validate_args and then run on $cmd.
This method returns the plugin_search_path as set. The default implementation, if called on ``YourApp::Cmd'' will return ``YourApp::Cmd::Command''
This is a method because it's fun to override it with, for example:
use constant plugin_search_path => __PACKAGE__;
If this method returns true (which, by default, it does not), then any unambiguous abbreviation for a registered command name will be allowed as a means to use that command. For example, given the following commands:
reticulate reload rasterize
Then the user could use ret for reticulate or ra for rasterize and
so on.
if ($cmd->app->global_options->{verbose}) { ... }
This method returns the running application's global options as a hashref. If there are no options specified, an empty hashref is returned.
$app->set_global_options(\%opt);
This method sets the global options.
my @names = $cmd->command_names;
This returns the commands names which the App::Cmd object will handle.
my @plugins = $cmd->command_plugins;
This method returns the package names of the plugins that implement the App::Cmd object's commands.
my $plugin = $cmd->plugin_for($command);
This method returns the plugin (module) for the given command. If no plugin implements the command, it returns false.
my ($command_name, $opt, @args) = $app->get_command(@args);
Process arguments and into a command name and (optional) global options.
print $self->app->usage->text;
Returns the usage object for the global options.
The top level usage line. Looks something like
"yourapp <command> [options]"
Returns an empty list. Can be overridden for pre-dispatch option processing. This is useful for flags like --verbose.
$self->usage_error("Something's wrong!");
Used to die with nice usage output, during validate_args.
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Ricardo Signes.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
| App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering |