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3fea05b9 1package MooseX::Getopt;
2use Moose::Role;
3
4use constant HAVE_GLD => not not eval { require Getopt::Long::Descriptive };
5
6our $VERSION = '0.25';
7our $AUTHORITY = 'cpan:STEVAN';
8
9with HAVE_GLD ? 'MooseX::Getopt::GLD' : 'MooseX::Getopt::Basic';
10
11no Moose::Role; 1;
12
13__END__
14
15=pod
16
17=head1 NAME
18
19MooseX::Getopt - A Moose role for processing command line options
20
21=head1 SYNOPSIS
22
23 ## In your class
24 package My::App;
25 use Moose;
26
27 with 'MooseX::Getopt';
28
29 has 'out' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1);
30 has 'in' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1);
31
32 # ... rest of the class here
33
34 ## in your script
35 #!/usr/bin/perl
36
37 use My::App;
38
39 my $app = My::App->new_with_options();
40 # ... rest of the script here
41
42 ## on the command line
43 % perl my_app_script.pl -in file.input -out file.dump
44
45=head1 DESCRIPTION
46
47This is a role which provides an alternate constructor for creating
48objects using parameters passed in from the command line.
49
50This module attempts to DWIM as much as possible with the command line
51params by introspecting your class's attributes. It will use the name
52of your attribute as the command line option, and if there is a type
53constraint defined, it will configure Getopt::Long to handle the option
54accordingly.
55
56You can use the trait L<MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::Trait> or the
57attribute metaclass L<MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute> to get non-default
58commandline option names and aliases.
59
60You can use the trait L<MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::Trait::NoGetopt>
61or the attribute metaclass L<MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::NoGetopt>
62to have C<MooseX::Getopt> ignore your attribute in the commandline options.
63
64By default, attributes which start with an underscore are not given
65commandline argument support, unless the attribute's metaclass is set
66to L<MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute>. If you don't want your accessors
67to have the leading underscore in their name, you can do this:
68
69 # for read/write attributes
70 has '_foo' => (accessor => 'foo', ...);
71
72 # or for read-only attributes
73 has '_bar' => (reader => 'bar', ...);
74
75This will mean that Getopt will not handle a --foo param, but your
76code can still call the C<foo> method.
77
78If your class also uses a configfile-loading role based on
79L<MooseX::ConfigFromFile>, such as L<MooseX::SimpleConfig>,
80L<MooseX::Getopt>'s C<new_with_options> will load the configfile
81specified by the C<--configfile> option (or the default you've
82given for the configfile attribute) for you.
83
84Options specified in multiple places follow the following
85precendence order: commandline overrides configfile, which
86overrides explicit new_with_options parameters.
87
88=head2 Supported Type Constraints
89
90=over 4
91
92=item I<Bool>
93
94A I<Bool> type constraint is set up as a boolean option with
95Getopt::Long. So that this attribute description:
96
97 has 'verbose' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Bool');
98
99would translate into C<verbose!> as a Getopt::Long option descriptor,
100which would enable the following command line options:
101
102 % my_script.pl --verbose
103 % my_script.pl --noverbose
104
105=item I<Int>, I<Float>, I<Str>
106
107These type constraints are set up as properly typed options with
108Getopt::Long, using the C<=i>, C<=f> and C<=s> modifiers as appropriate.
109
110=item I<ArrayRef>
111
112An I<ArrayRef> type constraint is set up as a multiple value option
113in Getopt::Long. So that this attribute description:
114
115 has 'include' => (
116 is => 'rw',
117 isa => 'ArrayRef',
118 default => sub { [] }
119 );
120
121would translate into C<includes=s@> as a Getopt::Long option descriptor,
122which would enable the following command line options:
123
124 % my_script.pl --include /usr/lib --include /usr/local/lib
125
126=item I<HashRef>
127
128A I<HashRef> type constraint is set up as a hash value option
129in Getopt::Long. So that this attribute description:
130
131 has 'define' => (
132 is => 'rw',
133 isa => 'HashRef',
134 default => sub { {} }
135 );
136
137would translate into C<define=s%> as a Getopt::Long option descriptor,
138which would enable the following command line options:
139
140 % my_script.pl --define os=linux --define vendor=debian
141
142=back
143
144=head2 Custom Type Constraints
145
146It is possible to create custom type constraint to option spec
147mappings if you need them. The process is fairly simple (but a
148little verbose maybe). First you create a custom subtype, like
149so:
150
151 subtype 'ArrayOfInts'
152 => as 'ArrayRef'
153 => where { scalar (grep { looks_like_number($_) } @$_) };
154
155Then you register the mapping, like so:
156
157 MooseX::Getopt::OptionTypeMap->add_option_type_to_map(
158 'ArrayOfInts' => '=i@'
159 );
160
161Now any attribute declarations using this type constraint will
162get the custom option spec. So that, this:
163
164 has 'nums' => (
165 is => 'ro',
166 isa => 'ArrayOfInts',
167 default => sub { [0] }
168 );
169
170Will translate to the following on the command line:
171
172 % my_script.pl --nums 5 --nums 88 --nums 199
173
174This example is fairly trivial, but more complex validations are
175easily possible with a little creativity. The trick is balancing
176the type constraint validations with the Getopt::Long validations.
177
178Better examples are certainly welcome :)
179
180=head2 Inferred Type Constraints
181
182If you define a custom subtype which is a subtype of one of the
183standard L</Supported Type Constraints> above, and do not explicitly
184provide custom support as in L</Custom Type Constraints> above,
185MooseX::Getopt will treat it like the parent type for Getopt
186purposes.
187
188For example, if you had the same custom C<ArrayOfInts> subtype
189from the examples above, but did not add a new custom option
190type for it to the C<OptionTypeMap>, it would be treated just
191like a normal C<ArrayRef> type for Getopt purposes (that is,
192C<=s@>).
193
194=head1 METHODS
195
196=over 4
197
198=item B<new_with_options (%params)>
199
200This method will take a set of default C<%params> and then collect
201params from the command line (possibly overriding those in C<%params>)
202and then return a newly constructed object.
203
204The special parameter C<argv>, if specified should point to an array
205reference with an array to use instead of C<@ARGV>.
206
207If L<Getopt::Long/GetOptions> fails (due to invalid arguments),
208C<new_with_options> will throw an exception.
209
210If L<Getopt::Long::Descriptive> is installed and any of the following
211command line params are passed, the program will exit with usage
212information. You can add descriptions for each option by including a
213B<documentation> option for each attribute to document.
214
215 --?
216 --help
217 --usage
218
219If you have L<Getopt::Long::Descriptive> the C<usage> param is also passed to
220C<new>.
221
222=item B<ARGV>
223
224This accessor contains a reference to a copy of the C<@ARGV> array
225as it originally existed at the time of C<new_with_options>.
226
227=item B<extra_argv>
228
229This accessor contains an arrayref of leftover C<@ARGV> elements that
230L<Getopt::Long> did not parse. Note that the real C<@ARGV> is left
231un-mangled.
232
233=item B<meta>
234
235This returns the role meta object.
236
237=back
238
239=head1 BUGS
240
241All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no
242exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug
243to cpan-RT.
244
245=head1 AUTHOR
246
247Stevan Little E<lt>stevan@iinteractive.comE<gt>
248
249Brandon L. Black, E<lt>blblack@gmail.comE<gt>
250
251Yuval Kogman, E<lt>nothingmuch@woobling.orgE<gt>
252
253=head1 CONTRIBUTORS
254
255Ryan D Johnson, E<lt>ryan@innerfence.comE<gt>
256
257Drew Taylor, E<lt>drew@drewtaylor.comE<gt>
258
259Tomas Doran, (t0m) C<< <bobtfish@bobtfish.net> >>
260
261=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
262
263Copyright 2007-2008 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.
264
265L<http://www.iinteractive.com>
266
267This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
268it under the same terms as Perl itself.
269
270=cut