package MooseX::Getopt; # git description: v0.75-2-gdb80a15 # ABSTRACT: A Moose role for processing command line options # KEYWORDS: moose extension command line options attributes executable flags switches arguments our $VERSION = '0.76'; use Moose::Role 0.56; use namespace::autoclean; with 'MooseX::Getopt::GLD'; 1; __END__ =pod =encoding UTF-8 =head1 NAME MooseX::Getopt - A Moose role for processing command line options =head1 VERSION version 0.76 =head1 SYNOPSIS ## In your class package My::App; use Moose; with 'MooseX::Getopt'; has 'out' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1); has 'in' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1); # ... rest of the class here ## in your script #!/usr/bin/perl use My::App; my $app = My::App->new_with_options(); # ... rest of the script here ## on the command line % perl my_app_script.pl -in file.input -out file.dump =head1 DESCRIPTION This is a role which provides an alternate constructor for creating objects using parameters passed in from the command line. =head1 METHODS =head2 C<< new_with_options (%params) >> This method will take a set of default C<%params> and then collect parameters from the command line (possibly overriding those in C<%params>) and then return a newly constructed object. The special parameter C, if specified should point to an array reference with an array to use instead of C<@ARGV>. If L fails (due to invalid arguments), C will throw an exception. If L is installed and any of the following command line parameters are passed, the program will exit with usage information (and the option's state will be stored in the help_flag attribute). You can add descriptions for each option by including a B option for each attribute to document. -? --? -h --help --usage If you have L the C parameter is also passed to C as the usage option. =head2 C This accessor contains a reference to a copy of the C<@ARGV> array as it originally existed at the time of C. =head2 C This accessor contains an arrayref of leftover C<@ARGV> elements that L did not parse. Note that the real C<@ARGV> is left untouched. B: By default, L will reject unrecognized I (that is, options that do not correspond with attributes using the C trait). To disable this, and allow options to also be saved in C (for example to pass along to another class's C), you can either enable the C option of L for your class: C<< use Getopt::Long qw(:config pass_through); >> or specify a value for L's C parameter. =head2 C This accessor contains the L object (if L is used). =head2 C This accessor contains the boolean state of the --help, --usage and --? options (true if any of these options were passed on the command line). =head2 C This method is called internally when the C state is true. It prints the text from the C object (see above) to C (and then after this method is called, the program terminates normally). You can apply a method modification (see L) if different behaviour is desired, for example to include additional text. =head2 C This returns the role meta object. =head2 C This does most of the work of C, analyzing the parameters and C, except for actually calling the constructor. It returns a L object. C uses this method internally, so modifying this method via subclasses/roles will affect C. =for stopwords DWIM metaclass This module attempts to DWIM as much as possible with the command line parameters by introspecting your class's attributes. It will use the name of your attribute as the command line option, and if there is a type constraint defined, it will configure L to handle the option accordingly. You can use the trait L or the attribute metaclass L to get non-default command-line option names and aliases. You can use the trait L or the attribute metaclass L to have C ignore your attribute in the command-line options. By default, attributes which start with an underscore are not given command-line argument support, unless the attribute's metaclass is set to L. If you don't want your accessors to have the leading underscore in their name, you can do this: # for read/write attributes has '_foo' => (accessor => 'foo', ...); # or for read-only attributes has '_bar' => (reader => 'bar', ...); This will mean that MooseX::Getopt will not handle a --foo parameter, but your code can still call the C method. =for stopwords configfile If your class also uses a configfile-loading role based on L, such as L, L's C will load the configfile specified by the C<--configfile> option (or the default you've given for the configfile attribute) for you. Options specified in multiple places follow the following precedence order: command-line overrides configfile, which overrides explicit new_with_options parameters. =head2 Supported Type Constraints =over 4 =item I A I type constraint is set up as a boolean option with L. So that this attribute description: has 'verbose' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Bool'); would translate into C as a L option descriptor, which would enable the following command line options: % my_script.pl --verbose % my_script.pl --noverbose =for stopwords Str =item I, I, I These type constraints are set up as properly typed options with L, using the C<=i>, C<=f> and C<=s> modifiers as appropriate. =item I An I type constraint is set up as a multiple value option in L. So that this attribute description: has 'include' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'ArrayRef', default => sub { [] } ); would translate into C as a L option descriptor, which would enable the following command line options: % my_script.pl --include /usr/lib --include /usr/local/lib =item I A I type constraint is set up as a hash value option in L. So that this attribute description: has 'define' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'HashRef', default => sub { {} } ); would translate into C as a L option descriptor, which would enable the following command line options: % my_script.pl --define os=linux --define vendor=debian =back =head2 Custom Type Constraints =for stopwords subtype It is possible to create custom type constraint to option spec mappings if you need them. The process is fairly simple (but a little verbose maybe). First you create a custom subtype, like so: subtype 'ArrayOfInts' => as 'ArrayRef' => where { scalar (grep { looks_like_number($_) } @$_) }; Then you register the mapping, like so: MooseX::Getopt::OptionTypeMap->add_option_type_to_map( 'ArrayOfInts' => '=i@' ); Now any attribute declarations using this type constraint will get the custom option spec. So that, this: has 'nums' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'ArrayOfInts', default => sub { [0] } ); Will translate to the following on the command line: % my_script.pl --nums 5 --nums 88 --nums 199 This example is fairly trivial, but more complex validations are easily possible with a little creativity. The trick is balancing the type constraint validations with the L validations. Better examples are certainly welcome :) =head2 Inferred Type Constraints If you define a custom subtype which is a subtype of one of the standard L above, and do not explicitly provide custom support as in L above, MooseX::Getopt will treat it like the parent type for Getopt purposes. For example, if you had the same custom C subtype from the examples above, but did not add a new custom option type for it to the C, it would be treated just like a normal C type for Getopt purposes (that is, C<=s@>). =head2 More Customization Options =for stopwords customizations See L for many other customizations you can make to how options are parsed. Simply C in your class to set these. Note in particular that the default setting for case sensitivity has changed over time in L, so if you rely on a particular setting, you should set it explicitly, or enforce the version of L that you install. =head1 SEE ALSO =over 4 =item * L, an extension to generate man pages, with colour =item * L, similar functionality for L =back =head1 SUPPORT Bugs may be submitted through L (or L). There is also a mailing list available for users of this distribution, at L. There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at L on C|irc://irc.perl.org/#moose>. =head1 AUTHOR Stevan Little =head1 CONTRIBUTORS =for stopwords Karen Etheridge Tomas Doran Stevan Little Yuval Kogman Florian Ragwitz Brandon L Black Shlomi Fish Hans Dieter Pearcey Olaf Alders Dave Rolsky Nelo Onyiah Ryan D Johnson Ricardo SIGNES Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Damien Krotkine Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson Chris Prather Devin Austin Gregory Oschwald Jose Luis Martinez Todd Hepler Andreas Koenig König Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker Damyan Ivanov Drew Taylor Gordon Irving Jesse Luehrs John Goulah Jonathan Swartz Justin Hunter Michael Schout Stuart A Johnston =over 4 =item * Karen Etheridge =item * Tomas Doran =item * Stevan Little =item * Yuval Kogman =item * Florian Ragwitz =item * Brandon L Black =item * Shlomi Fish =item * Hans Dieter Pearcey =item * Olaf Alders =item * Dave Rolsky =item * Nelo Onyiah =item * Ryan D Johnson =item * Ricardo SIGNES =item * Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason =item * Damien Krotkine =item * Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson =item * Chris Prather =item * Devin Austin =item * Gregory Oschwald =item * Jose Luis Martinez =item * Todd Hepler =item * Andreas Koenig =item * Andreas König =item * Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker =item * Damyan Ivanov =item * Drew Taylor =item * Gordon Irving =item * Jesse Luehrs =item * John Goulah =item * Jonathan Swartz =item * Justin Hunter =item * Michael Schout =item * Shlomi Fish =item * Stevan Little =item * Stuart A Johnston =back =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Infinity Interactive, Inc. 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