NAME

MooseX::App - Write user-friendly command line apps with even less suffering

SYNOPSIS

In your base class:

 package MyApp;
 use MooseX::App qw(Config Color);

 option 'global_option' => (
     is            => 'rw',
     isa           => 'Bool',
     documentation => q[Enable this to do fancy stuff],
 );
 
 has 'private' => ( 
     is              => 'rw',
 ); # not exposed

Write multiple command classes (If you have only a single command class you might use MooseX-App-Simple instead)

package MyApp::SomeCommand;
use MooseX::App::Command; # important
extends qw(MyApp); # purely optional

option 'some_option' => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
    documentation => q[Very important option!],
);

sub run {
    my ($self) = @_;
    # Do something
}

And then in some simple wrapper script:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use MyApp;
MyApp->new_with_command->run;

DESCRIPTION

MooseX-App is a highly customizeable helper to write user-friendly command-line applications without having to worry about most of the annoying things usually involved. Just take any existing Moose class, add a single line (use MooseX-App qw(PluginA PluginB ...)) and create one class for each command in an underlying namespace.

MooseX-App will then take care of

• Finding, loading and initializing the command classes

• Creating automated doucumentation from pod and attributes

• Reading and validating the command line options entered by the user

Commandline options are defined using the 'option' keyword which accepts the same attributes as Moose' 'has' keyword.

option 'some_option' => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
);

This is equivalent to

has 'some_option' => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
    traits        => ['AppOption'],
);

Read the Tutorial for getting started with a simple MooseX::App command line application.

METHODS

new_with_command

my $myapp_command = MyApp->new_with_command();

This method reads the command line arguments from the user and tries to create a command object. If it fails it retuns a MooseX::App::Message::Envelope object holding an error message.

You can pass a hash of default params to new_with_command

MyApp->new_with_command( %default );

initialize_command_class

my $myapp_command = MyApp->initialize_command_class($command_name,%default);

Helper method to initialize the command class for the given command.

OPTIONS

app_base

app_base 'my_script';

Usually MooseX::App will take the name of the calling wrapper script to construct the programm name in various help messages. This name can be changed via the app_base function.

app_namespace

app_namespace 'MyApp::Commands';

Usually MooseX::App will take the package name of the base class as the namespace for commands. This namespace can be changed.

app_fuzzy

app_fuzzy;
OR
app_fuzzy(1);
OR
app_fuzzy(0);

Enables fuzzy matching of commands and attributes. Is turned off by default.

PLUGINS

The behaviour of MooseX-App can be customized with plugins. To load a plugin just pass a list of plugin names after the use MooseX-App statement.

use MooseX::App qw(PluginA PluginB);

Read the Writing MooseX-App Plugins documentation on how to create your own plugins.

SEE ALSO

Read the Tutorial for getting started with a simple MooseX::App command line application.

MooseX::App::Cmd, MooseX::Getopt and App::Cmd

SUPPORT

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-moosex-app@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=MooseX-App. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your report as I make changes.

AUTHOR

Maroš Kollár
CPAN ID: MAROS
maros [at] k-1.com

http://www.k-1.com

COPYRIGHT

MooseX::App is Copyright (c) 2012 Maroš Kollár.

This library is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as perl itself. The full text of the licence can be found in the LICENCE file included with this module.

cpanm MooseX::App

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install MooseX::App