Provided by: libprogress-any-perl_0.219-1_all 
NAME
Progress::Any - Record progress to any output
VERSION
This document describes version 0.219 of Progress::Any (from Perl distribution Progress-
Any), released on 2020-08-15.
SYNOPSIS
Example of using in a script with terminal progress bar as output (progress bar will be
cleared on "finish()"):
use Progress::Any '$progress';
use Progress::Any::Output 'TermProgressBarColor';
$progress->target(10);
for (1..10) {
$progress->update(message => "Doing item $_");
sleep 1;
}
$progress->finish();
Sample output:
% ./script.pl
60% [Doing item 6==== ]3s left
Another example, this time with terminal message as output:
use Progress::Any '$progress';
use Progress::Any::Output 'TermMessage', template => '[%n] %P/%T (%6.2p%%) %m';
$progress->target(10);
for (1..10) {
$progress->update(message => "Item $_/10");
sleep 1;
}
sleep 1;
$progress->finish(message => "Finished!");
Sample output:
% ./script.pl
[] 1/10 ( 10.00%) Item 1/10
[] 2/10 ( 20.00%) Item 2/10
...
[] 10/10 (100.00%) Item 10/10
[] 10/10 (100.00%) Finished!
Example of using in a module as well as script:
# in lib/MyApp.pm
package MyApp;
use Progress::Any;
sub download {
my @urls = @_;
return unless @urls;
my $progress = Progress::Any->get_indicator(
task => "download", pos=>0, target=>~~@urls);
for my $url (@urls) {
# download the $url ...
$progress->update(message => "Downloaded $url");
}
$progress->finish;
}
# in script.pl
use MyApp;
use Progress::Any::Output;
Progress::Any::Output->set('TermProgressBarColor');
MyApp::download("url1", "url2", "url3", "url4", "url5");
Sample output:
% ./script.pl
20% [====== Downloaded url1 ]0m00s Left
Example that demonstrates multiple indicator objects:
use Progress::Any;
use Progress::Any::Output;
my $pdl = Progress::Any->get_indicator(task => 'download');
Progress::Any::Output->set({task=>'download'}, 'TermMessage', template => '[%-8t] [%P/%2T] %m');
my $pcp = Progress::Any->get_indicator(task => 'copy');
Progress::Any::Output->set({task=>'copy' }, 'TermMessage', template => '[%-8t] [%P/%2T] %m');
$pdl->target(10);
$pdl->update(message => "downloading A");
$pcp->update(message => "copying A");
sleep 1;
$pdl->update(message => "downloading B");
$pcp->update(message => "copying B");
will show something like:
[download] [1/10] downloading A
[copy ] [1/ ?] copying A
[download] [2/10] downloading B
[copy ] [2/ ?] copying B
Example of using with Perinci::CmdLine
If you use Perinci::CmdLine, you can mark your function as expecting a Progress::Any
object and it will be supplied to you in a special argument "-progress":
use File::chdir;
use Perinci::CmdLine;
$SPEC{check_dir} = {
v => 1.1,
args => {
dir => {summary=>"Path to check", schema=>"str*", req=>1, pos=>0},
},
features => {progress=>1},
};
sub check_dir {
my %args = @_;
my $progress = $args{-progress};
my $dir = $args{dir};
(-d $dir) or return [412, "No such dir: $dir"];
local $CWD = $dir;
opendir my($dh), $dir;
my @ent = readdir($dh);
$progress->pos(0);
$progress->target(~~@ent);
for (@ent) {
# do the check ...
$progress->update(message => $_);
sleep 1;
}
$progress->finish;
[200];
}
Perinci::CmdLine->new(url => '/main/check_dir')->run;
DESCRIPTION
"Progress::Any" is an interface for applications that want to display progress to users.
It decouples progress updating and output, rather similar to how Log::Any decouples log
producers and consumers (output). The API is also rather similar to Log::Any, except
Adapter is called Output and category is called task.
Progress::Any records position/target and calculates elapsed time, estimated remaining
time, and percentage of completion. One or more output modules (Progress::Any::Output::*)
display this information.
In your modules, you typically only need to use Progress::Any, get one or more indicators,
set target and update it during work. In your application, you use Progress::Any::Output
and set/add one or more outputs to display the progress. By setting output only in the
application and not in modules, you separate the formatting/display concern from the
logic.
Screenshots:
STATUS
API might still change, will be stabilized in 1.0.
The list of features:
• multiple progress indicators
You can use different indicator for each task/subtask.
• customizable output
Output is handled by one of "Progress::Any::Output::*" modules. Currently available
outputs: "Null" (no output), "TermMessage" (display as simple message on terminal),
"TermProgressBarColor" (display as color progress bar on terminal), "LogAny" (log
using Log::Any), "Callback" (call a subroutine). Other possible output ideas:
IM/Twitter/SMS, GUI, web/AJAX, remote/RPC (over Riap for example, so that
Perinci::CmdLine-based command-line clients can display progress update from remote
functions).
• multiple outputs
One or more outputs can be used to display one or more indicators.
• hierarchical progress
A task can be divided into subtasks. If a subtask is updated, its parent task (and its
parent, and so on) are also updated proportionally.
• message
Aside from setting a number/percentage, allow including a message when updating
indicator.
• undefined target
Target can be undefined, so a bar output might not show any bar (or show them, but
without percentage indicator), but can still show messages.
• retargetting
Target can be changed in the middle of things.
EXPORTS
$progress => OBJ
The root indicator. Equivalent to:
Progress::Any->get_indicator(task => '')
ATTRIBUTES
Below are the attributes of an indicator/task:
task
String. Default: from caller's package, or "main".
Task name. If not specified will be set to caller's package ("::" will be replaced with
"."), e.g. if you are calling this method from "Foo::Bar::baz()", then task will be set to
"Foo.Bar". If caller is code inside eval, "main" will be used instead.
title
String. Default: task name.
Specify task title. Task title is a longer description for a task and can contain spaces
and other characters. It is displayed in some outputs, as well as using %t in
"fill_template()". For example, for a task called "copy", its title might be "Copying
files to remote server".
target
Non-negative number. Default: 0.
The total number of items to finish. Can be set to undef to mean that we don't know (yet)
how many items there are to finish (in which case, we cannot estimate percent of
completion and remaining time).
pos
Non-negative number. Default: 0.
The number of items that are already done. It cannot be larger than "target", if "target"
is defined. If "target" is set to a value smaller than "pos" or "pos" is set to a value
larger than "target", "pos" will be changed to be "target".
state
String. Default: "stopped".
State of task/indicator. Either: "stopped", "started", or "finished". Initially it will
be set to "stopped", which means elapsed time won't be running and will stay at 0.
"update()" will set the state to "started" to get elapsed time to run. At the end of task,
you can call "finish()" (or alternatively set "state" to "finished") to stop the elapsed
time again.
The difference between "stopped" and "finished" is: when "target" and "pos" are both at 0,
percent completed is assumed to be 0% when state is "stopped", but 100% when state is
"finished".
METHODS
get_indicator
Usage:
Progress::Any->get_indicator(%args) => obj
Get a progress indicator for a certain task. %args contain attribute values, at least
"task" must be specified.
Note that this module maintains a list of indicator singleton objects for each task (in
%indicators package variable), so subsequent "get_indicator()" for the same task will
return the same object.
update
Usage:
$progress->update(%args)
Update indicator. Will also, usually, update associated output(s) if necessary.
Arguments:
• pos => NUM
Set the new position. If unspecified, defaults to current position + 1. If pos is
larger than target, outputs will generally still show 100%. Note that fractions are
allowed.
• message => str|code
Set a message to be displayed when updating indicator.
Aside from a string, you can also pass a coderef here. It can be used to delay costly
calculation. The message will only be calculated when actually sent to output.
• priority => str ("normal"|"low"|"high", default: "normal")
Set importance level of this update. Default is "normal". Output can choose to ignore
updates lower than a certain level.
• state => STR
Can be set to "finished" to finish a task.
• force_update => BOOL
Default false. Some outputs choose only to update themselves after a certain amount of
time or number of updates have passed; this forces their update.
finish
Usage:
$progress->finish(%args)
Equivalent to:
$progress->update(
( pos => $progress->target ) x !!defined($progress->target),
state => 'finished',
%args,
);
reset
Usage:
$progress->reset(%args)
Equivalent to:
$progress->update(
pos => 0,
state => 'started',
%args,
);
start
Usage:
$progress->start()
Set state to "started".
stop
Usage:
$progress->stop()
Set state to "stopped".
elapsed
Usage:
$progress->elapsed() => float
Get elapsed time. Just like a stop-watch, when state is "started" elapsed time will run
and when state is "stopped", it will freeze.
remaining
Usage:
$progress->remaining() => undef|float
Give estimated remaining time until task is finished, which will depend on how fast the
"update()" is called, i.e. how fast "pos" is approaching "target". Will be undef if
"target" is undef.
total_remaining
Usage:
$progress->total_remaining() => undef|FLOAT
Give estimated remaining time added by all its subtasks' remaining. Return undef if any
one of those time is undef.
total_pos
Usage:
$progress->total_pos() => float
Total of indicator's pos and all of its subtasks'.
total_target
Usage:
$progress->total_target() => undef|float
Total of indicator's target and all of its subtasks'. Return undef if any one of those is
undef.
percent_complete
Usage:
$progress->percent_complete() => undef|float
Give percentage of completion, calculated using "total_pos / total_target * 100". Undef if
total_target is undef.
fill_template
Usage:
$progress->fill_template($template) => str
Fill template with values, like in "sprintf()". Usually used by output modules. Available
templates:
• "%(width)n"
Task name (the value of the "task" attribute). "width" is optional, an integer, like
in "sprintf()", can be negative to mean left-justify instead of right.
• "%(width)t"
Task title (the value of the "title" attribute).
• "%(width)e"
Elapsed time (the result from the "elapsed()" method). Currently using Time::Duration
concise format, e.g. 10s, 1m40s, 16m40s, 1d4h, and so on. Format might be
configurable and localizable in the future. Default width is -8. Examples:
2m30s
10s
• "%(width)r"
Estimated remaining time (the result of the "total_remaining()" method). Currently
using Time::Duration concise format, e.g. 10s, 1m40s, 16m40s, 1d4h, and so on. Will
show "?" if unknown. Format might be configurable and localizable in the future.
Default width is -8. Examples:
1m40s
5s
• "%(width)R"
Estimated remaining time or elapsed time, if estimated remaining time is not
calculatable (e.g. when target is undefined). Format might be configurable and
localizable in the future. Default width is -(8+1+7). Examples:
30s left
1m40s elapsed
• "%(width).(prec)p"
Percentage of completion (the result of the "percent_complete()" method). "width" and
"precision" are optional, like %f in Perl's "sprintf()", default is "%3.0p". If
percentage is unknown (due to target being undef), will show "?".
• "%(width)P"
Current position (the result of the "total_pos()" method).
• "%(width)T"
Target (the result of the "total_target()" method). If undefined, will show "?".
• %m
Message (the "update()" parameter). If message is unspecified, will show empty string.
• "%%"
A literal "%" sign.
FAQ
ENVIRONMENT
PROGRESS
Boolean. Default 1. Can be set to 0 to display progress output.
HOMEPAGE
Please visit the project's homepage at <https://metacpan.org/release/Progress-Any>.
SOURCE
Source repository is at <https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Progress-Any>.
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Progress-Any>
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing
test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
SEE ALSO
Progress::Any::Examples distribution contains example scripts.
Other progress modules on CPAN: Term::ProgressBar, Term::ProgressBar::Simple,
Time::Progress, among others.
Output modules: "Progress::Any::Output::*"
See examples on how Progress::Any is used by other modules: Perinci::CmdLine (supplying
progress object to functions), Git::Bunch (using progress object).
AUTHOR
perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2020, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 by perlancar@cpan.org.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
the Perl 5 programming language system itself.