NAME
App::CLI - Dispatcher module for command line interface programs
SYNOPSIS
package MyApp;
use base 'App::CLI'; # the DISPATCHER of your App
# it's not necessary putting the dispather on the top level of your App
package main;
MyApp->dispatch; # call dispather in where you want
package MyApp::List;
use base qw(App::CLI::Command); # any (SUB)COMMAND of your App
use constant options => qw(
"h|help" => "help",
"verbose" => "verbose",
'n|name=s' => 'name',
);
use constant subcommands => qw(User Nickname); # if you want subcommands
sub run {
my ($self, @args) = @_;
print "verbose" if $self->{verbose};
my $name = $self->{name}; # get arg following long option --name
if ($self->{help}) {
# if $ myapp list --help or $ $ myapp list -h
# just only output PODs
} else {
if ($self->cascadable) {
$self->cascading->run_command; # if you want to invoke MyApp::List::User or MyApp::List::Nickname
} else {
# do something that without subcommand
# or die as below
$self->error_cmd;
}
}
}
package MyApp::List::User;
use base qw(App::CLI::Command);
sub run {
my ($self,@args) = @_;
# code for listing user
}
pakcage MyApp::List::Nickname;
use base qw(App::CLI::Command);
sub run {
my ($self,@args) = @_;
# code for listing nickname
}
package MyApp::Help;
use base 'App::CLI::Command::Help';
use constant options => (
'verbose' => 'verbose',
);
sub run {
my ($self, @arg) = @_;
# do something
$self->SUPER(@_); # App::CLI::Command::Help would output PDOs of each command
}DESCRIPTION
App::CLI dispatches CLI (command line interface) based commands into command classes. It also supports subcommand and per-command options.
TODO
More documentation
SEE ALSO
App::CLI::Command Getopt::Long
AUTHORS
Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org> Cornelius Lin <cornelius.howl@gmail.com> shelling <navyblueshellingford@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2005-2006 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.