Provided by: libmoosex-getopt-perl_0.68-1_all 
NAME
MooseX::Getopt - A Moose role for processing command line options
VERSION
version 0.68
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
DESCRIPTION
This is a role which provides an alternate constructor for creating objects using
parameters passed in from the command line.
METHODS
"new_with_options (%params)"
This method will take a set of default %params and then collect parameters from the
command line (possibly overriding those in %params) and then return a newly constructed
object.
The special parameter "argv", if specified should point to an array reference with an
array to use instead of @ARGV.
If "GetOptions" in Getopt::Long fails (due to invalid arguments), "new_with_options" will
throw an exception.
If Getopt::Long::Descriptive 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 documentation option for each attribute to document.
-?
--?
-h
--help
--usage
If you have Getopt::Long::Descriptive the "usage" parameter is also passed to "new" as the
usage option.
"ARGV"
This accessor contains a reference to a copy of the @ARGV array as it originally existed
at the time of "new_with_options".
"extra_argv"
This accessor contains an arrayref of leftover @ARGV elements that Getopt::Long did not
parse. Note that the real @ARGV is left untouched.
Important: By default, Getopt::Long will reject unrecognized options (that is, options
that do not correspond with attributes using the Getopt trait). To disable this, and allow
options to also be saved in "extra_argv" (for example to pass along to another class's
"new_with_options"), you can either enable the "pass_through" option of Getopt::Long for
your class: "use Getopt::Long qw(:config pass_through);" or specify a value for
MooseX::Getopt::GLD's "getopt_conf" parameter.
"usage"
This accessor contains the Getopt::Long::Descriptive::Usage object (if
Getopt::Long::Descriptive is used).
"help_flag"
This accessor contains the boolean state of the --help, --usage and --? options (true if
any of these options were passed on the command line).
"print_usage_text"
This method is called internally when the "help_flag" state is true. It prints the text
from the "usage" object (see above) to "stdout" and then the program terminates normally.
You can apply a method modification (see Moose::Manual::MethodModifiers) if different
behaviour is desired, for example to include additional text.
"meta"
This returns the role meta object.
"process_argv (%params)"
This does most of the work of "new_with_options", analyzing the parameters and "argv",
except for actually calling the constructor. It returns a MooseX::Getopt::ProcessedArgv
object. "new_with_options" uses this method internally, so modifying this method via
subclasses/roles will affect "new_with_options".
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
Getopt::Long to handle the option accordingly.
You can use the trait MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::Trait or the attribute metaclass
MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute to get non-default command-line option names and aliases.
You can use the trait MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::Trait::NoGetopt or the attribute
metaclass MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::NoGetopt to have "MooseX::Getopt" 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 MooseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute. 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 Getopt will not handle a --foo parameter, but your code can still call
the "foo" method.
If your class also uses a configfile-loading role based on MooseX::ConfigFromFile, such as
MooseX::SimpleConfig, MooseX::Getopt's "new_with_options" will load the configfile
specified by the "--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.
Supported Type Constraints
Bool
A Bool type constraint is set up as a boolean option with Getopt::Long. So that this
attribute description:
has 'verbose' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Bool');
would translate into "verbose!" as a Getopt::Long option descriptor, which would
enable the following command line options:
% my_script.pl --verbose
% my_script.pl --noverbose
Int, Float, Str
These type constraints are set up as properly typed options with Getopt::Long, using
the "=i", "=f" and "=s" modifiers as appropriate.
ArrayRef
An ArrayRef type constraint is set up as a multiple value option in Getopt::Long. So
that this attribute description:
has 'include' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'ArrayRef',
default => sub { [] }
);
would translate into "includes=s@" as a Getopt::Long option descriptor, which would
enable the following command line options:
% my_script.pl --include /usr/lib --include /usr/local/lib
HashRef
A HashRef type constraint is set up as a hash value option in Getopt::Long. So that
this attribute description:
has 'define' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'HashRef',
default => sub { {} }
);
would translate into "define=s%" as a Getopt::Long option descriptor, which would
enable the following command line options:
% my_script.pl --define os=linux --define vendor=debian
Custom Type Constraints
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
Getopt::Long validations.
Better examples are certainly welcome :)
Inferred Type Constraints
If you define a custom subtype which is a subtype of one of the standard "Supported Type
Constraints" above, and do not explicitly provide custom support as in "Custom Type
Constraints" above, MooseX::Getopt will treat it like the parent type for Getopt purposes.
For example, if you had the same custom "ArrayOfInts" subtype from the examples above, but
did not add a new custom option type for it to the "OptionTypeMap", it would be treated
just like a normal "ArrayRef" type for Getopt purposes (that is, "=s@").
More Customization Options
See "Configuring Getopt::Long" in Getopt::Long for many other customizations you can make
to how options are parsed. Simply "use Getopt::Long qw(:config other_options...)" in your
class to set these.
SEE ALSO
MooseX::Getopt::Usage, an extension to generate man pages, with colour
AUTHOR
Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
CONTRIBUTORS
• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
• Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>
• Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>
• Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
• Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
• Brandon L Black <blblack@gmail.com>
• Shlomi Fish <shlomif@iglu.org.il>
• Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@weftsoar.net>
• Ryan D Johnson <ryan@innerfence.com>
• Nelo Onyiah <nelo.onyiah@gmail.com>
• Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
• AEvar Arnfjoer` Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
• Damien Krotkine <dkrotkine@weborama.com>
• Hinrik Oern Sigur`sson <hinrik.sig@gmail.com>
• Todd Hepler <thepler@employees.org>
• Devin Austin <dhoss@cpan.org>
• Jose Luis Martinez <jlmartinez@capside.com>
• Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>
• Justin Hunter <justin.d.hunter@gmail.com>
• Gordon Irving <goraxe@goraxe.me.uk>
• Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaaker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
• Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>
• Olaf Alders <olaf@wundersolutions.com>
• Jonathan Swartz <swartz@pobox.com>
• John Goulah <jgoulah@cpan.org>